Well, I’ve survived my second Capital to Coast charity cycle ride. Not only did the London to Hove cycle ride seem further this year, it actually was as we were diverted an extra couple of miles due to an accident. Last year’s ride was in sunshine all the way, and this year the weather held …
I’m cycling 60 miles to Hove on Sunday to raise money for Norwood Children’s and Families Trust, the Cystic Fibrosis Trust and the Downs Syndrome Association. If you could sponsor me there’s a form here: http://www.justgiving.com/puntourists2007. You can read about last year’s event here. Sponsor the puntourists
The new proposed Highway Code will apparently make it compulsory for cyclists to use cycle-specific facilities rather than roads wherever they’re available. Knowing the state of some of the cycle lanes I’m faced with I don’t see this as sensible and hence have signed the petition to have the new highway code rejected by MPs. …
I was camping in Cornwall with the Sainsbury Clan over Whitsun Bank Holiday weekend. It really wasn’t the best time for it, as this picture of our tent as it looked when we came back to it on a very windy Sunday afternoon shows: We decided to call it quits at that point and pack …
The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 is over and despite a low turnout (at our place, of course, not in total as apparently over 10 million people watched it in the UK) it was still quite excellent. The quality of the songs was as variable as usual, although certainly not as soul-destroying as has been in …
Something I didn’t know (before now) is that Firefox won’t let you use the file:/// protocol link from within a web (i.e. http) environment. Or rather, anything linked to with file:/// won’t open. There is a local machine fix detailed here but it looks like for my intranet app I’m going to have to find …
I’m most overjoyed at having a week with a Honda Blackbird early in June. Not only that but I’ll also be racing around Cadwell Park (though not on a Blackbird, I hasten to add). Hopefully I shall be doing similar speeds to this: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0nWAmKAbHY]
I received a phishing e-mail claiming to be from the Co-op and, for a change, I actually looked at the link. Strangely, the link was FTP (not HTTP) protocol and contained a username and password. So, instead of clicking on the link, I opened it in my FTP client and lo and behold I was …
From Koyosan we had to travel back to Osaka and then a bullet train all the way to Tokyo (in about 3 hours) for our last night in Japan. I certainly don’t feel like I’ve seen anywhere near enough of the country and even with four nights in Tokyo had barely scratched the surface. On …
From Osaka we took a train and then a furnicular to Koyasan (Mount Koya), where the monks live. Billed as ‘staying with the monks’ it would be more accurately described as ‘staying in a hotel the monks have set up to cash-in on the area’ and, although interesting, it wasn’t quite the spiritual experience it …