Update: I’m reworking the videos to be a little less vomit inducing – i.e. not quite so fast, and with less silly music.
If only I could travel this fast.. sigh..
Warning: may not be suitable for those with motion sickness as the videos are very fast and bounce along at a fair old pace.
Both editing with the beta version of Windows Live Movie Maker which does indeed improve on the current released version in a number of small ways. Still too basic for fancy pants stuff, but fine for simple things like this.
While I start prepping the 17 hour monster Premiere Pro rendering of 2 and half minutes of speeded up biking from Knaphill to the Surrey Research Park, here’s a small taster of the sights you’ll see on route:
This weekend we replaced our ageing Brother all-in-one printer with a brand spanking new HP all-in-one. It’s given me a good opportunity to try scanning various things, including this article from the local freebie newspaper which covered Memset’s entry into the Toast of Surrey awards back in January this year. Third time I’ve popped up in the local rag
Got the first rung of obtaining the first, I hope, in the whole batch of Microsoft related certification doodads. I’m hoping, after that, to then do LPI exams, then head into the MySQL DB/PostgresQL DB field. That’ll take YEARS (and will keep me out of mischief). But there is an increasing demand for Windows, and I need to understand why. This is a good way of doing so.
I’m having second thoughts on whether to do a Windows 2008 Server training course (well, reading lots of books and tinkering) and exam or a MySQL DBA course/exam and working my way up from there. I could potentially do both (do all the Windows stuff first and then go DBAing, or go DBAing and then doing Windows). But which one to do first?
Windows 2008 and IIS got on my goat recently when an official Microsoft URL filtering plugin just would not work and I could find no reason for it not to according to the excellent articles on iis.net. With Linux it’s easy enough to trace a process and find out what’s going on. With Windows 2008 it’s a tad more difficult without having to install additional utilities and you have to go to the trouble of finding them and installing them.
Everybody is running MySQL, but my concern is what plans Oracle have for it now they’ve bought Sun Microsystems. It’s weird seeing Sun Virtualbox being re-branded as Oracle VM Virtualbox. Will Oracle commit to keeping these projects alive and well?
Update: I’m sticking by with Windows 2008 certification. Let’s get it out the way. So you may see this blog move back over to IIS 7.5 again..
I’ve now done two trips (Guilford to Knaphill, Knaphill to Guildford) on the new Wisper 905se City S and I can say with great relief that this is a wonderful bike. Worth every penny.
The pedal assist appears to be slightly weaker (even set to high) than the Urban Mover that I’ve been using, but that’s no bad thing – gets me fitter by making me work harder – a true electric/normal pushbike hybrid. I was aching somewhat yesterday evening having had to put in a bit of extra pedaling, but I’ll get used to it. That said, there is .. THE THROTTLE. THE THROTTLE is the turbo boost that makes the bike shoot up hills with ease. It doesn’t drain the battery much – I’ve completed the round trip with one battery charge and there is still a bit left over.
The saddle is so comfortable. Not only does is it very soft, and therefore keeping one’s squishy bits nice and squishy (EWWW! There will be repercussions! – Ed.) but there is .. SUSPENSION! Yes, the seat will happily bounce up and down gently as you go over the the unavoidable Surrey potholes. The front forks are adjustable as well, so the entire bike is one smooth(er) ride.
Breaks are excellent – the front uses disc breaking, the back V-pads. Gently pressure to the breaks gets the bike stopping nice and easily. Thankfully there are no Knaphill car drivers around today stopping in the middle of the road to talk to spaniel walkers.
Time will tell how well the bike performs overall, but so far I’m very very happy with it.
