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Rhi and I are having a big clearout of stuff.  Lots of stuff has gone on ebay.  Checkout our ebay accounts:

Me – http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/squid_cxv

Rhi – http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/10Rhiam

Some stuff isn’t making it to ebay tho.

Panasonic DMP-BD45EB-K Blu-Ray Disc Player – £100

Cheiftec Bravo Full Tower PC Case – £20 – http://www.chieftec.com/BA01.html (too big to post, collection only)

Email me if you’re interested.

Free Books

Java 2 (SDK 1.4) by Ivor Horton

Software Engineering by R Pressman (4th ed)

QuarkExpress 6 a Visual Quickstart guide

What is it with movies these days? Why are all movies either sequels of the one half decent original movie that was done a few years ago, comic book rip-offs or book rip-offs? Gah!

Well the old thing is looking much better after the shiny upgrade.  Now to prettify it.

Recently Greg and I went out to walk up along the Y Grib ridge and possibly continue along to Waun Fach.  We didn’t do that in the end, but we got a decent number of photos out of the trip.  The walk is quite a short one, with an altitude gain of about 500-600 meters from top to bottom and it’s about 5-6 miles in total.  We got on the hill quite late, about 1100 (we stopped off in Brecon to buy some walking poles and new thermal base layers), but made good progress and we were back down by about 1600.  You walk along the ridge and then down back along the bottom of the hill to the start.  The walk back was quite tough in as the snow had drifted quite a lot at the bottom of the hill, coming up to mid thigh on several occasions, making things rather slow going.  It did make getting down the hill easy as you could just run full pelt down the path as the snow slowed you down and made sure things didn’t hurt when you fell.  I did take a fall on an icy patch tho, but didn’t even get a bruise.

We saw quite a few other people out on the ridge, including two guys who made a snowhole in a snow drift on the ridge, which was impressive.  There were also a few skiers out as well, there were a couple of parts where you could ski quite well if you wanted too.

Some guy in a Snow hole

Looking over to Y Grib

Matt on the walk back to the car

Lots and lots of snow.... lovely clear blue sky

Looking back down from the top of the ridge to Y Grib

Greg waist deep in the snow, it was that deep...

Matt also waist deep in the snow!

All running and it took 18 mins, which isn’t too awful I guess.  Felt good and I recorded the whole thing on my phone.  It’s got this Nokia sports tracker application on it.  Once I know what the weblink for that is I’ll put it somewhere on the website.

Recently I’ve been running (2 miles, treadmill, last monday), biking (Penhydd, Afan, Friday, took an hour and a half and felt really good on the climbs), walking (up Pen-y-fan and then onto Cribyn, last Saturday).  So I’m doing half decently on the exercise front.  Also got a longer and hillier walk to and fro work now I’ve moved.

Going to try and update this with run details in the future.

I thought I’d put up a little post listing a few of my favourite webcomics.

Firstly, I’ll have to start with Megatokyo, it was one of the first comics that I started reading and is still good.  However I would have to say that the general quality of the storyline has slipped somewhat.  It is still incredibly slow in telling the story.  Still I’m interested to see where Fred will take it.
Ctrl-Alt-Del, is one of the funniest comics I read.  It also has a great cast and although they do get forgotten from time to time there is a good story behind it.  Chef Brian is also well worth a trawl thru the archives for, assuming you like your comics surreal.
The Order of the Stick is very much gaming based, specifcally Dungeons and Dragons, the artwork may not be the most sophisticated, but for what it is it can be quite impressive at times.  The humour is great and generally understandable by all.
xkcd is a newish find for me, but I’m utterly hooked on it.  It is an odd combination of maths and romance, but I’m smitten.  My personal favourite is this one, it’s so very wrong tho.

2.5 mile run round part of the old circuit and a fair bit of new territory.  My right knee is griping a bit now the run is over.  But otherwise feeling good.
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=1574698

My dissertation is long finished, which is ace.  I’ve now got a bit more time to myself.  I’m rather chuffed about that.  I’ve got a few websites on the go atm.

I also found this rather good free game online the other day it is for BMW, for the launch of their new M3 saloon.  It is called the M3 challenge and allows you to drive a rather realistic M3 round the nurburgring.

On hughservers.com I’m currently slogging away at my masters thesis, which is currently draining my will to live.  I’m sure it’ll get done, but it is an uphill struggle from here on in.  We managed to sell the micra to a lass who lives just down the road, for roughly what I wanted for it, which is good.  The wedding is largely all organised, just the last few bits of organisation to finish off.

The C4 that we got from TF’s parents is a lovely car.  Nice and smooth and just the thing for TF to commute in.  I’d prefer something with a V8 and rear wheel drive, like one of these, but you can’t have everything in life.  I’m just chuffed that everything has turned out so well, so far.  I’m still working in IT at the same place as I have been for the past year.  I’m settling in there nicely, it’s a nice place, great job and good people to work with.

Anyway, that is it again for a while, as I’m not going to be finished untill some time in September.