Is Windows 7 the worst OS ever?
Due to monitoring my electricity usage, I have become completely aware of my computer starting up at irregular hours.
1 commentNovember 16th, 2010
Bike thief update
Flabbergasted. It’s a good word. It’s my word of today.
The CPS have decided not to press charges against my bike thief.
3 commentsNovember 13th, 2010
Leccy Monitoring
I’ve been working on setting up monitoring my current cost electricity monitor. There are a few blogs out there and I tried a couple of techniques before settling on this. This is a standard Ubuntu server, with a Current Cost Envi and three IAM’s added. I forgot how I set up Ubuntu, so if anyone wants to document that, I can add in. But basically you need Perl with RRD. This is all pretty rough, but it works. Happy with any help …
Add commentNovember 4th, 2010
Bike Thief
It’s been a happy two and a half years me and Brommie spent together. We’ll always have some very happy memories, including entering a World Championship Race.
Me & B in World Championships
So, what happened to break up this relationship? A bike thief, that’s what happened. (more…)
2 commentsJuly 13th, 2010
Thames Kayak 18th Sept 09
Day one from Castle Eaton. Stayed in Swindon, which is a bit of a s*ithole. Okay, I’d overdone the beers the night before, but didn’t wish to venture into any of the pubs in Swindon Town Centre.
Taxi driver dropped me off at Castle Eaton, as no-one seemed to have heard of Water Eaton, despite me showing them the map.
Add commentOctober 2nd, 2009
iPhone 3GS day
Today’s the day. CPW lost my pre-order, then my mobiles.co.uk order couldn’t find me on Equifax, then O2 wanted £150 deposit, then Mint thought the transaction was fraudulent. I’ve been jumping through hoops for this phone.
Now the postman has knocked on the door, oh .. it was the cycle mount I ordered yesterday off eBay. WHERE’S THE PHONE?!
Add commentJune 19th, 2009
Crash
Well, it had to happen some time. Wasn’t expecting a catastrophic failure of the handlebars @ 20mph on the Embankment.
Left hand a sorry mess after grabbing onto the railings for dear life. Lesson to self, don’t trust handlebars over 5 years old. Turns out these ones were 20 years old.
Add commentMarch 31st, 2009
Gmail to destruction
I decided to migrate my email from my old gmail account across to my shiny new Google Apps account.
“You are currently using 3807 MB (52%) of your 7283 MB” … so I had quite a lot of email to transfer.
Google don’t provide an efficient method, so I just added the old account as a POP mail account and got Google to collect it. Every few minutes it collects another 200 mails and has been doing so for nearly 48 hours and I still have two years worth to collect. I suspect this will be running most of the week. 2007 & 2008 were quite heavy usage on the account!
Add commentJanuary 13th, 2009