Ducati Racing 2005 – Round 1, Race 1

Posted on | May 12, 2012 | No Comments

Starting from row 6 or 7 after the gear linkage fell apart at the end of my out lap during qualifying. As a (two) seasoned professional in the eyes of some, I was one of a handful of ‘experienced’ riders on the grid. Perhaps 30 of the 40 were taking part in their very first race meeting – I took full advantage of this for at least 1.5 – 2 seconds, maybe. I’ve always been a quick starter and led many races into turn 1, there is no real skill involved as such, I must just have good reactions and make sure that I’ve got the clutch biting as the lights go on – so that the bike starts driving off the line the instant my fingers release the lever in reaction to the lights going out – So as the start lights went out at Cadwell Park for race 1, I was 15 feet up the track before 30 novice riders had even began to move. Like I say, no skill, just experience working to my advantage (if only my luck had joined in). Read more

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Pinterest – Pin Board Wizard?

Posted on | May 11, 2012 | No Comments

Pinterest is the latest (this month’s) craze, a social/sharing website where members share their favorite things. Pinterest gets it’s name from the way in which you display/share your photos, videos, bookmarks or even text files – if you can have a favorite text file? Rather than a ‘wall’ or ‘timeline’ as it’s now called on fhat there Facebook, users on Pinterest use a vitual pin board – or a thumbnail gallery – if you have no imagination.

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My Artwork | Why Grow Flowers?

Posted on | May 10, 2012 | No Comments

A banner idea what I done…

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Pocket Rocket Man

Posted on | May 9, 2012 | No Comments

Who?: Bill Ivy
What?: Yamaha 250cc
Where?: Clermont-Ferrand
When?: 1967 French GP
Why?: The photographer Roger Lane captured the displeasure on Jochen Rindt’s face as he handled the puny victory trophy for the BARC Thruxton 200. After all, he had set a new lap record at the first round of the European F2 Championship on Easter Monday 1969. It appeared a paltry reward for the king of Formula 2. However, the motorsport weeklies wouldn’t be hailing Rindt. Instead, Motoring News described 26-year-old William David Ivy’s Formula 2 début as a performance that was “even more amazing than Rindt.” Thruxton would be the beginning of a short, but stunning car career for the man from Maidstone.

Bill would become one of the biggest names in motorbike racing with 21 international wins. His father Morris worked for an agricultural repair business and on the combine harvesters motorbikes were carried. Childhood friend and later fellow competitor Roy Francis explained: “When the combine harvester went to the farm where it was due to work, the driver needed something to get home, so he’d take his old motorbike. When they pensioned that bike off, Bill’s father bought it for Bill to ride at the allotments near his home in Sutton Valence. That soon annoyed a few people when you run down a few runner bean rows! I was then going to school with him and my father had a farm so he brought the bike round to my father’s farm and we rode around there for a few years.”

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My Artwork | Two Peace in a Pod

Posted on | May 8, 2012 | No Comments

Two Peace in a Pod:

Yasutomo Nagai
(b. 29 October 1965, d. 10 September 1995)

Shoya Tomizawa
(b.10 December 1990, d. 5 September 2010)

Peace & love.

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Department Thirteen

Posted on | May 7, 2012 | No Comments

PRLog (Press Release) – May 02, 2012
Coming on the heels of being voted the USA Book News “Best Thriller of 2011,” James Houston Turner’s bestselling thriller, Department Thirteen (Comfort Publishing), has just scored another award with a prestigious GOLD MEDAL in the thriller/suspense category of the 2012 Independent Publisher’s Book Awards.

Said Turner from his home in Adelaide, South Australia,

“I thought I needed caffeine to start my day, but this was a power breakfast all on its own. I check my emails every morning at 5:30am, and the President of Comfort Publishing, Pam Tolen, had sent me an email congratulating me for the award. I was so pumped I forgot about the coffee. My deepest thanks go to my wife, Wendy, for supporting me all these years in my writing; to Pam Tolen and all the remarkable people at Comfort Publishing; to Qantas Airways, Jacob’s Creek wine and King Island Dairy, for helping sponsor my 2011 Department Thirteen USA book tour; to all the fans who have lifted me on so many occasions with their emails, prayers and support; to the actual KGB agent who, at tremendous risk to himself, inspired the creation of Aleksandr Talanov; and of course to the great people at the Independent Publisher Book Awards. This is the first gold medal I’ve ever received for anything, so I’m deeply honored.”

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FTP Client Pro

Posted on | May 7, 2012 | No Comments

I’d been using FTPOnTheCrash (£4.99) for over 2 years, until a couple of months ago, it was forever crashing and I hate to think of the work I’ve lost. To be honest I got sick to death reinstalling the thing almost every other day. Other FTP Apps lacked the range of functions so I stuck with it.

Enough was enough and I noticed some more apps in the shop (I don’t shop very often) so I gladly bit the bullet and purchased Gusto Mobile (£2.99), FTP Client Pro (£1.49) and also installed a bunch of free stuff like Codasaurus Lite.

Gusto’s first install didn’t work and although it now works, it’s UI isn’t that friendly or obvious as to what icons are for, the focus seeming to be about the ‘look’ rather than ‘function’, and it fails on both, disappointing for £3.

Codadaurus Lite and the text editor based apps were flimsy and some confusing. Some may be ok for uploading the odd text file but no good for managing your server files and folders.

So what of FTP Client Pro? Well, it simply blows the doors clean off everything I’ve tried. It offers everything that the other ‘top’ FTP Clients claim and then actually has the actual nerve to actually work properly too, with no actual crashing. It’s UI is well organised and everything is where you’d expect it to be. I can’t fault it and use it for several hours every day. Far and away the best FTP Client for iPhones and one of the cheapest too.

Price: £1.49
Score: 6 out if 5!
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GIMP 2.8 Released

Posted on | May 3, 2012 | No Comments

Good news for GIMP fans: after 3 long years in development a new stable version of GIMP has been released.

Announcing the release on the official GIMP website, the developers also state that the update sees ‘other important changes to the user interface’ that brings the team closer to matching their ‘product vision’. GIMP 2.8 boasts a wealth of improvements – both under the hood and above it.

The GIMP Users site has an excellent summary of all that’s new in GIMP 2.8, but a few choice highlights include:

Single window mode

Sure to be the headline feature in this release for many, the single window mode has long been requested. With GIMP 2.8 it finally becomes stable.
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