Today my dad came round and helped me to clean and re-grease my rear hub gears. Now the bike is running a lot better. Almost as though it’s now. However I still need to replace the cogs and chain some time soon, before they wear out completely. As I have internal gears, I can get… Continue reading Cycling: Back on the Road
Clean re-install of Mac OS X
Today I have spent some time re-installing Mac OS X on my MacBook. It has been over a year now since I have bought the MacBook, and have only once done a clean install on it so far. It is now a lot faster as I don’t have any junk lying around running in the… Continue reading Clean re-install of Mac OS X
Cycling: Bike Repairs
Today, I was intending to cycle from Edinburgh to Berwick-upon-Tweed and back. Unfortunately on leaving the lights a Regent Road to head down on to London road, my gears started making a grinding noise. Gears 5-8 all made a horrible noise. Luckily I still had gears 1-4, though unfortunately I had a top speed of… Continue reading Cycling: Bike Repairs
Petition to get Apple to support OpenDocument in iWork
Filip Molcan has just pointed out a new petition to get Apple to support the ISO standard 26300, otherwise known as OpenDocument in iWork 08. iWork 08 already supports the Open Office XML (OOXML) document format, which isn’t yet an ISO standard. Wasn’t Apple meant to be a supporter of open standards?
Cycling: Edinburgh and Galashiels circle
Yesterday I took a cycle south on the National Cycle Network route 1. I headed out on the Lasswade Road, towards Bonnyrigg, where I joined the NCN1. It was quite a nice day, with some awesome views in parts of the route. From 20070804osmcy… One of the great things about being on a push bike,… Continue reading Cycling: Edinburgh and Galashiels circle
Cycling: Edinburgh Critical Mass: July 2007
On Friday I went along to the monthly Critical Mass again. I managed to arrive just in time this month for them setting off from the foot of the Mound at 6pm. This month seems to have been busier that the previous two months. There was about 44-55 people on their bikes there. This month… Continue reading Cycling: Edinburgh Critical Mass: July 2007
Cycling: Glasgow to Edinburgh
On Thursday evening, I took the train over to Glasgow for the Scotlug meeting. There was an interesting presentation about phidgets. Afterwards I went along with the other geeks to the pub to grab something to eat and have a natter. I’ve even now seen an iPhone (not just in pictures), though not yet had a… Continue reading Cycling: Glasgow to Edinburgh
Can launch PPC apps again
Since installing the Quicktime 7.2 and iTunes 7.3.1 updates on my MacBook, I’ve been unable to launch PPC applications through Rosetta. It appears that having Java 6 installed has caused the prebinding process to crash. Following the process documented in a comment by Darlene on a blog, I’ve been able to launch PPC applications through… Continue reading Can launch PPC apps again
Blogger Labels Cloud
I’ve been wondering for a while now, how to change my long list of labels in the sidebar to a cloud, which would take up a lot less space. I’ve finally found out how to have a label cloud in blogger.
Picasa Web Albums now supports GeoTagging
Picasa Web Albums has now caught up with Flickr and started to properly support GeoTagging of Photos. I have however found a bug in the iPhoto uploader plugin. Basically if you have used a GPS track to Geo tag your photos, if you compress the photos on upload, then you will lose those Geo Tags.… Continue reading Picasa Web Albums now supports GeoTagging