A mixed bag

SCCM 2007 Guides

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:32:00 +0100

SCCM 2007 Guides:

These are some excellent SCCM 2007 guides I found invaluable recently. They made setting up a lab environment incredibly hassle free but you will need to do some deeper reading before deploying to production. :D

http://www.windows-noob.com/forums/index.php?/topic/1064-sccm-2007-guides/

30 gifts to 30 strangers in Sydney (by Lucas Jatoba) A lovely...

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 09:12:00 +0100

30 gifts to 30 strangers in Sydney (by Lucas Jatoba)

A lovely feel-good video from down under (via the daily what).

Lovell Telescope on Flickr. We took a little trip to Jodrell...

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:35:03 +0100

Lovell Telescope on Flickr.

We took a little trip to Jodrell Bank this weekend.

Red Light Runner (by Ewan Logan) Watch the junction as the...

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:18:00 +0100

Red Light Runner (by Ewan Logan)

Watch the junction as the lights turn green. I would normally have moved to the front of the queue but today I decided not to, thankfully!

3-Way Street (by ronconcocacola) Great video showing cyclists,...

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:14:29 +0100

3-Way Street (by ronconcocacola)

Great video showing cyclists, pedestrians and drivers failing to use the road correctly

Bike fall with slow motion replay (by Ewan Logan) Despite the...

Sat, 07 May 2011 00:51:00 +0100

Bike fall with slow motion replay (by Ewan Logan)

Despite the ridiculous circumstance it’s fairly impressive that I went from cycling to head-butting the pavement and back onto my feet within 10 seconds.

Crash! Bang! Wally! (by Ewan Logan) Bike Highlights 05-05-2011 A...

Fri, 06 May 2011 08:57:00 +0100

Crash! Bang! Wally! (by Ewan Logan)

Bike Highlights 05-05-2011

A couple of minor oddities and a spectacularly embarrassing self-induced crash.

Despite my general dislike of people cycling on the pavement I decided to hop onto the kerb before dismounting so that I wasn’t in the way of any buses coming behind me - I won’t do that again!

Bike Highlights 18-04-2011 (by Ewan Logan) One cyclist, one...

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:05:00 +0100

Bike Highlights 18-04-2011 (by Ewan Logan)

One cyclist, one minicab and a couple of pedestrians (not all at once).

Two wrongs don’t make a right turn easy. (by Ewan...

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 20:40:10 +0100

Two wrongs don’t make a right turn easy. (by Ewan Logan)

My new helmet cam is already yielding some interesting results. Play the above video with sound to get the full story.

The nice Eddie Stobart truck had been maintaining a safe distance and speed behind me until he could overtake - possibly annoying the Ford driver behind him in the process.

As we approach the lights the Ford driver moves into the right turn only lane and stops up against the ASL and by doing so is technically breaking the law.

I assume the Ford driver is turning right (as he is in the right-turn-only lane) and I decide to move in front to him as he was blocking the bike box. I know how busy this junction is and want to ensure I am visible to other road users (including the Stobart truck) but I will admit this is maybe not the best course of action as I am now also breaking the law.

So both of us are not exactly in the right, yet as I move off the Ford driver sounds his horn and yells at me for being in the way of his illegal overtaking manoeuvre. I respond with that massively underused insult… “Pillock!”

I don’t think either of us come out of this particularly well.

A few highlights from a day at Alton Towers

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:35:11 +0100

A few highlights from a day at Alton Towers

Helmet Camera Test (by Ewan Logan) I bought myself a new toy the...

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:59:00 +0100

Helmet Camera Test (by Ewan Logan)

I bought myself a new toy the other day - a DogCam video camera. Above is a short snippet of my journey home from work. The quality has been reduced greatly for this upload (it shoots 720p) and I’m still playing with the mounting options but expect more of the same in the near future. Although hopefully more interesting footage.

The only highlight in this clip is around 9 minutes where a fellow cyclist loses a pannier (karma for cycling on the pavement?).