Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I’ve been busy creating books recently. As I mentioned earlier I thought it would be a really nice thing to make books from each year of this weblog as a memento and photo album for us. At first it was going to be a quick copy of the weblog but once I got into it...
My third time at Penmachno and this time it was just a quick spin around the first loop with Brad and Steve. It was a glorious winters day with snow on the ground and some very icy sections, but not a cloud in the sky. I also had my new GoPro HD camera with me so I...
The first copy of our printed weblog arrived yesterday. It was a bit of an experiment as I’d never used Blurb for printing before and I had to use a fairly convoluted method to produce the pdf for printing. In the end it involved creating the book in Pages and then exporting it as a...
I’ve just been paying with some of the new features of Google Earth 6 – Well, it is a Friday afternoon. The latest incarnation of the Google Earth application has a few interesting features that I hadn’t seen before, although I’m sure some of them were available in earlier versions. First up there’s 3D trees! Google...
We’ve now been blogging since 2005 and my blogging intensities seem to go from strength to strength. It’s surprising how much happens in the life of a small family living a ‘Simple Life of Luxury’ in Wales and I’m forever encouraged by the number of people who read this weblog. I’m not saying the content...
I’ve just heard a rumour about the Apple iPad that hasn’t been heard anywhere else on the web before! No, it’s not that it will have a forward facing camera making it FaceTime compatible, that’s almost guaranteed. It’s not that it will have the Retina display or even that it will have a dual core...
Some of you may not know that I’m a Website Designer and I’ve recently been working on a project for the Welsh charity WAMES (The Welsh Association of ME & CFS Support). The website they want had quite a few specific requirements, but as usual budgets were tight so I had to build a site...
I’m beginning to enjoy running again at the moment. My last run was good and I was pleased with my average pace of less than 7 minute miles. It’s not fast and nowhere near as fast as I used to manage 20 years ago when I could easily bang out a 10k in 40 minutes,...
I’ve just noticed that my Carbonite Backup is now up to 100GB. I started backing up to Carbonite in December 2009 and wrote Carbonite Review when I did so. At the time it was all quite new to me but I’ve updated the review with comments as I’ve gone along and all seems to be...
Whilst doing a geocache overlooking the Dyfi Estuary I thought that as it is called ‘Estuary View’ I’d better take a photo of the view. So, here it is, a view of the Dyfi Estuary on a grey autumnal day. It’s quite a long image so it’ll look funny when you scroll it but you’ll...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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