I’m now a fully fledged author on CPAN :)
My first contribution – WWW::Nike::NikePlus – a module that interfaces to the Nike+ running site which allows you to pull out all your run/goal/challenge data.
Go me.
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TANZEN!!
A travesty of eurovision-block-voting justice. Bah.
Progress with Vista power management
Well, it’s been a long running saga but things are actually getting better. I’ve recently found a new power management option, that governs how Vista behaves when "sharing media". I’m taking this to mean any share on the PC, not just Windows Media style automagic sharing.
Setting it to "allow the computer to sleep" (see below) has dramatically helped in that Vista now goes back to sleep when it’s supposed to. So, my media centre PC now wakes up to record a show and then immediately goes back to sleep once it’s finished. BRILLIANT!
I still have the little problem of it waking up at 4am every day, but we’ll see if this new change helps at all. If not, then I have a little trick up my sleeve…
Alcatel Speedouch 716 & Vista
I have a Speedtouch 716WL and use its inbuilt 802.11g wireless with a few laptops around the house. Recently I got a new Vista tablet and whilst it works great on the wirless for general email & web browsing, I’ve found that I can’t use any SMB shares or remote desktop to any PC on my LAN from my Vista notebook. XP notebooks are fine.
If I remote desktop, it will connect to the destination machine, briefly showing the logon screen before kicking me off saying that the remote computer ended the connection. Trying to browse to SMB shares invariably causes explorer to hang.
I contacted Alcatel about it and they’re aware of the problem. The resolution is to switch to using WEP instead of WPA-PSK on the speedtouch. Not a great workaround…
Update: Alcatel have got back to me and said that they’re due to release new firmware "shortly" that fixes this. Appendages crossed then…
New Nike+ watches
Now then, according to speculation back in January we were supposed to be able to get our mitts on new Nike+ watches that talk to our running shoes and our iPod yesterday.
Where are they, eh?
Vista Media Centre Update
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932818
It supposedly fixes a host of bugs – how about you release all those fixes regarding USB devices & sleep and slow file copies as well?
London Marathon 2007
Some pictures from today’s marathon for you:
Update: I forgot to mention that I’ve tagged all the photos as much as possible, including with the runner’s number (if I could see them) and obviousl running clubs. So, you can search for yourself with your number. I have higher res photos too, so if you find yourself and want a big pic, let me know.
My kind of alarm clock
The kind that jumps off your bedside table and hides somewhere so you’re forced to get out of bed to turn its bleeping off…
Seven Deadly Bins
Well, ok, there are only six of them…
Wedded bliss
So, it’s just over two weeks since our wedding civil partnership. We spent the week before mostly cooking as we were doing all the catering ourselves. Everyone seems to have liked what we did (catering for 50 is tough!) so I guess we did something right :)
We had a few hicups – a last minute champagne substitution and a marquee that was distinctly not watertight (thankfully it didn’t rain) but luckily the weather was great on the day.
We were both petrified beforehand but the ceremony went well at Southwark Registry Office and the "celibrant" was really good. Afterwards we had a pretty good party back at our house and although it was a little packed everyone enjoyed it.
So, some pictures :)
