Since getting my most recent Huawei phone (using Android 6.0 “Marshmallow”), I’ve noticed that automatic syncing of my Garmin Forerunner GPS watch often didn’t happen automatically – even if the Garmin Connect app was open. Typically, restarting the phone would solve the issue, and allow a sync to happen – however next time, it would […]
Category Archives: Notes
Going Android with the Huawei Ascend G7
This post is about an Android perspective from the the point-of-view of a long time iPhone user. I’ve been an Apple tech-enthusiast for most of my life and have had an iPhone in my pocket for a good 5-6 years. However I have now acquired a Huawei Ascend G7 phone with Android “KitKit” on it, […]
The Tottenham Hale Gyratory
The Tottenham Hale Gyratory is a road structure I know well – I pass through it regularly. It’s actually made up of two gyratories: a large one around Seven Sisters, and a small one around Tottenham Hale itself, connected like a “flywheel”: The “feeder” roads, all two-way, are shown in black. The one-way roads of […]
The Information Continuum
So Google Reader is closing this summer. That’s a shame. It’s been my RSS feed reader for many years. I’m currently subscribed to 163 feeds, split across London, Tech, Mac, GIS, InfoVis, financial, orienteering and general. For a while I had a specially crafted Twitter search that fed tweets into Google Reader, but I eventually […]
Inactivity
So… I fractured my collarbone when I fell off my bike last weekend, cycling too fast through a deeper than expected ford, while on a long cycle through country lanes in Essex. It’s a very minor break, not “clean-through”, but last week was a whole world of pain, and it will still be a few […]
MOO Facebook Cards
My 50 new MOO Facebook cards arrived today – I ordered them on Thursday last week, taking advantage of the first 200,000 sets ordered being free. The cards are auto-created from my Facebook profile, the builder then allows you to further customise them. Note you need to have a new-style Timeline profile on Facebook to […]
The Contour Road Book of Scotland
I’m up in Oban in the Western Highlands for the next week or so, competing in the Scottish 6 Days international orienteering races. I’ll be cycling between the venues each day – with a single gear, as both my shifters have failed in the last couple of weeks. I was a bit worried about the […]
London Olympics – Are You Coming?
From my research blog: So are you coming to the greatest show on earth in London next summer? Or are you making a point of staying away? Perhaps even going to a rival sporting event? Answer my one-question survey below, and enter the first bit of your postcode, and a map will be drawn automatically, […]
Summer Plans
What I’m planning on doing this summer: 3 June pm LOK Park Race Grovelands Park 5km 5 June parkrun Hackney Marshes 5km 8 June pm SLOW Park Race Battersea Park 5km 11-21 June A wedding/Lakes/Knoydart trip 22 June pm SLOW Trail Challenge Ham 10km 26-27 June A stag 29 June pm SLOW Park Race Tooting […]
Review of the Year 2009: Part 1
2009 was a year in which I started to do less orienteering (after 13 years in the sport), a bit more running, and a lot more cycling. It was also almost an injury-free year. January The year started with a training score exercise in Aird’s Park, near Oban, on New Year’s Day. “Park” is a […]