Author Archives: richm

This evening I attended an event hosted by Transition Durham and the Environment Agency Lower Wear Catchment Pilot folks. They are looking to pull together all of the river users and pull together some plans for improvement of the river. … Continue reading →

The  latest edition of Regatta magazine arrived earlier this week. It contains the British Rowing Racing Wall Calendar for 2012/13. Good to see that Durham Regatta is highlighted as a Row for Gold event. We are still working on the … Continue reading →

So demand for Raspberry Pi has been quite amazing. It managed to take out both RS Components and Farnell sites for a few hours on 29th February. I eventually managed to register an interest in the devices on both sites … Continue reading →

I have just heard that Durham Regatta has been accepted into the British Rowing Row for Gold initiative. This is a brilliant opportunity for us to build on a lot of the great work that our local rowing clubs (e.g. … Continue reading →

What sad news to hear that Peter Burdess passed away suddenly. Whilst in his 80s Peter was an inspiration to us all. He was as fit and active as anyone could hope to be. Peter made a huge contribution to … Continue reading →

I just spotted a report about the timthumb wordpress vulnerability and whist doing a bit of background investigation I spotted that they were considering using a local MAC address as an encryption salt. That made me wonder if the imminent … Continue reading →

Interesting to see the programme After Life : The Strange Science of Decay on BBC Four the other day. The BBC built a sealed domestic environment at Edinburgh Zoo and placed many everyday objects (food, dead animals, pests) into the … Continue reading →

On Saturday I visited the YNEPF (Yorkshire and North East Powerlifting Federation) Benchpress Championships that were held at Durham ARC. This was my first time at one of these events and I must say that I was impressed by both … Continue reading →

Wow. We made a visit to Birmingham this week. We took the kids to Cadbury World and then went to the Bullring Centre to let the girls do a bit of shopping.  (Un)fortunately the shopping trip was curtailed after about … Continue reading →

Yesterday we found a problem regarding formatting dates including Time Zones on Android 2.1 and 2.2 devices.  In a few cases our unit tests were failing due to the dates being output with the wrong timezone identifer. Specifically it turns … Continue reading →