I’ve been meaning to add a new entry and update this website for about a month but there is always something I want to write about that I either don’t have all the content for or photos. Well this is a teaser post with more stuff to come. Holidays give me plenty of time to do whatever so I’m trying to make the most of it!
So here is the teaser. It’s drawn by my friend Sarah who is currently in India. Without further ado…
On Dom's Shoulders
Some good timing, my exams finished and the temperature rocketed! On Saturday I went to Glasgow Green with friends. I’ve never seen that place so busy (except for fireworks of course!)
With exams over I can also work on stuff to my hearts content without feeling guilty about not revising.
I’ve started on Hector – a Hexapod. His current status is that he can walk forwards very slowly but unfortunately his legs keep dropping off and I am struggling to glue them on.
Wordpress is excellent. No denying that but it’s always the minor niggles that really irritate. For me it was the fact the WYSIWYG editor stripped out my line breaks (new line). This is every, very irritating. Now I can do HTML coding, I would prefer to layout my posts the easy way. Today I found “TinyMCE Advanced” which fixes that problem and I am very grateful. It also comes with some other nice features.
Like quoting! So I can quote!
| It also comes with a table creator! | So I can make tables, James will be fuming! |
| Much fine can be had | with tables |
Thursday 20th is my final exam, Materials. It hasn’t been so interesting to revise for so I am getting a bit bored of it. Heat and Flow, now that fun to revise! Gerald may get some improved vision. I will also start planning my summer projects.
On the website front things need a good deal of tidying and there are still blank pages. Today I messed around with the list of pages in the right-hand sidebar. I got rid of the bullet points. I think it looks better now.
Loganlea Reservoir is in the background
No, really. A popular facebook group just now is “Students – working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for 2 weeks a year”. Now my revision is not quite as intense as this and I start revising well in advance. With no classes and no travelling into classes there seems to a bit of free time (no point over-working, right?!).
What have I been doing? Some running (great for visiting people unannounced), frisbee at Glasgow Green, making some birthday presents and hill walking. On Monday I went to Pentland Peaks (near Edinburgh) for the first time with two friends. We started at Flotterstone and intended to do this route but this is not quite the route we followed. The printable version of the page had a map even worse than the one on that page. We called it our “postage stamp map”. We overshot the turning back distance by some considerable distance so it was quite a long walk, at least 6.5 hours at around 3mph.
Lovely place to walk at, the first section of the walk was the rambling equivalent of a rollercoaster. The path just went up and down for ages. The weather held out and I even managed to get sunburn but I’m not quite sure how!
I’ve now discovered the rather excellent Multimap which gives you access to OS Maps for free. Here is a link to Ranger’s Office at Flotterstone.
SECTION TO FINISH:
Today I bought something that has tempted me for a while, a Bluetooth GPS Receiver. It works with my PDA. Setting up. Model. NoniGPS.
two posts in one day! 
The default smileys in wordpress are awful 
but I finally got round to changing them. 
That mean’s I’ll have to use them all the time. 
Apologies if I overuse them and make you 
EDIT: first pack I tried didn’t have transparencies correctly set. The set I am currently using work but I don’t like them much so they will go soon. If you are reading this the chances are they have already gone but to honour their short time on this blog I’ll here is one -> 
Most of the guys on our raft were on a stag-do
Yesterday was a long day. I was out for about 14 hours. Great trip though and I’ve just finished my little page about it. I don’t think the awesomeness of it was quite conveyed though!
Photo Courtesy of James
This post is dedicated to Megan who reminded me I hadn’t added a new entry to my “blog” for a while. I respectfully dispute that this is even a blog but anyway, this one is for you Megan.
The first thing I should say is that this should have been more interesting than it is. On Wednesday evening – the last night I was in Dumfries – I went unicycling in Mabie. My mum and dad were with me and the plan was for my dad to follow me down the White Route on his bike wearing the helmet camera. Near the bottom the camera bleeped and turned off. Low battery. No problem I thought, we’ll just change the battery. Unfortunately my dad left the battery in the car. It turns out the footage we did get wasn’t so good as dad struggled to stay at the same speed as me. It’s hard to focus on getting a good picture and not fall off! So it looks like we’ll be going back and trying that again. The White Route is quite challenging, covered in loose rocks and some small drop-offs.
Tonight I will be adding placeholders for new content on the website so I know what has still to be done. Exams will start soon so work will still be slow but come the summer holidays things should speed up a bit.
In other news I picked up a Radline Fang R/C car at a car boot sale for £4 and I’ve been playing with that. Inside it’s plenty fast enough but it could do with some mods and upgrades for outdoors. Still a good little buy at that price. It’s easy to carry around it’s so small.
Marathon training continued in the Easter Holidays. The photo above was taken by James at one of my many times I used his house as a water stop. The editing is not quite there yet, he needs some practice but the general idea is sound.
Tomorrow promises to be a good day as I am visiting Cruachan Power station with the imeche. The early start (I’ll be getting up about 6:10am) is not welcome but the rest of the day should be good! I’ll post some photos of it.
I felt like posting my favourite cartoon clip ever. I must have watched this over 20 times and I *still* laugh out loud! 
Easter break time. Plenty of revision to do but I should find some time do go out cycling. The cycling page on this website should finally get some pictures on it
Also have an R/C Helicopter from Christmas to play with.
I purchased a pair of Brooks GTS 10 from Achilles’s Heel (a nearby shop). I ran home from uni a couple of times in them and today I did about 7 miles over an hour. They’re great shoes and very comfy. I’ve mapped out the basic route I did today on WalkJogRun.net
I am planning to do the Loch Ness Marathon in October 2010 so the training has begun. I’m reasonably fit and go to the gym around 3 days a week but I’ve never tried any long distance running. I managed 20:53 for 5km just before Christmas. I wouldn’t class myself as a runner (yet!) but I’ve always wanted to run a marathon and I figured now was a good time to try. Some free time and I am still quite young!
Earlier in the week I made a new tshirt design. I am quite pleased with it but despite the paint being “fabric spray paint” it says not to use on clothes so I am not sure how long it will last…
I listened to H.G Well’s The Time Machine this week, Roy Trumbull is a good narrator and I really enjoyed it.
Finally, I saw Avatar 3D yesterday. It was a reasonably good film but I was just waiting for them to burst into “Colors of the wind”!
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