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Al: a blog about bikes and stuff.

  • DAS is good

    Quite how I’m not sure, but I passed my motorcycle test yesterday (DAS, Direct Access) with only 1 minor. Scarily I can now go and ride any motorcycle I want on a public road. Thankfully for my own safety and that of others I was quite scared enough on a Suzuki GS500 at 70mph and…

  • Advent 4211 (MSI Wind clone)

    I’d been thinking about getting a “netbook” since the original Asus 701 was released, but having tried that there was no way my fat fingers were going to manage using it. The whole market has expanded recently and I tried the Merida thingie (another MSI Wind clone)  in Sainsburys the other day and it seemed…

  • Good-bye IE6 support

    I have decided that anyone using IE6 is a ludite and doesn’t deserve to be able to enjoy things as I mean them to be seen 😉 As such i have decided to not bother putting in hacks to make IE6 work with transparent PNGs. Sorry IE6 user, whoever you are. I also need to…

  • Longleat Trails – Reserection

    This last weekend was the first ‘dig day’ of the Black Canon Collective, which is a new club I’m helping with that was started to make the old unofficial Longleat trails official. Its been a fair while since Longleat shut the place down, for totally understandable reasons, and its been a fair amount of work…

  • Asda Petrol double charging

    Well here is an interesting thing. I looked at my on-line banking today and saw I had been charged twice (same merchant, same amount, different dates one day apart) on my debit card for a transaction. I called my bank to question this, ‘cos I certainly didn’t fill my car up twice… As soon as…

  • Apple WWDC ’08 keynote yawn

    Is it just me, or was the who Apple WWDC ’08 keynote a huge let down? I have not seen much in the techsphere that would agree with me, people seem all excited about a “new” 3G iPhone, but for me the whole thing was a let down. Sure, isn’t it nice to see a…

  • Bristol BikeFest 2008

    After week of the weather “Will it? Won’t it?”, the sun came out for this years Bristol BikeFest. Last year Bob and I wandered along on the Sunday to watch Neil plug around for 6 hours solo and walked much of the course – it looked quite fun, though there was little vibe in the…

  • WordPress Templates

    The trouble with something like WordPress is that fiddling with templates becomes addictive and highly time consuming. I never quite could be bothered to make the old template do what I wanted, but then I came across a blog which was laid out just about how I wanted mine to look. Thankfully the template was…

  • Wii Sports still makes me snigger

    The better half and I headed up to see Korpora and Purple Chaos (there is something odd about using LJ names in WordPress…) this weekend. The drive up was quite horrible, but I guess thats what you expect from the M5/M6 these days. Nevermind, the company up north more than made it worth it. Once…

  • Col’s THE ONE carbon zebra

    My mate Colin has a new helmet. Its rather spangly 🙂 He’s not seen it yet, so for him, heree’s Bob modeling it for you.

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