I’ve posted some photos of NY up in the gallery – sorry the quality isn’t great, they were taken on my phone as I didn’t want to bring my SLR with me. Hopefully i’ll get back here sometime soon when I have more time on my hands.
Oh, and if you’re looking for a Gallery2 upload client for Vista, take a look at Pix2Gallery2– it’s not entirely bug free, but it’ll do!
As I happened to be passing Niketown on 5th Avenue this morning, I popped in and enquired when I’d be able to get my mitts on the new Nike running watches (Aero+, Flight+ etc.).
The guy there told me "within the next two months, but I’m not supposed to tell". Oh well :)
Two months to wait then!
(Written on the side of a barrel lift at a pub)
Ah-ha! TAKE THAT Facebook! You should now have a rather fine "miniblog" on the left hand side complete with little pictures, snide comments and an XML RSS feed all of its own.
This is to make up for the fact that I’m not posting as many big, long posts these days but still have the occasional bit of time to post something I’ve found on the meganet.
Woo!
I was going to add a little "mini feed" for my facebook activities, but Facebook trample all over the RSS spec so it’s impossible to directly extract the links out of the feed and embed them here – you’d have to get redirected via Facebook first. Bah.
In other news, I’m dreadfully sorry for the lack of posts of late. Working for a bank has its downsides ;)
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.
A travesty of eurovision-block-voting justice. Bah.
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…
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…
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?