Blog Archive: May 2025
Amsterdam Schiphol to Manchester flight GPX tracklog
25 May 2015 Misc
My next blog entry from a string of flight inspired posts is another flight GPX tracklog.
This time from my weekend city break in Amsterdam. I initially thought this info might be a bit unique and interesting, but in the search to find some of the other flight details I came across Flightaware.com. It has some great info there, including to my more »
The childs.be twitterbot is alive
17 May 2015 RaspberryPi
My latest project is now live, the @childs_be twitterbot is a go.
The original idea was to have the pi tweet pictures from the barrelcam, at regular intervals. I had that running quite quickly and my attentions turned to adding functionality.
I came up with being able to tweet the server's uptime and cpu temperature, but it seemed a bit lame more »
Free water at Manchester Airport Terminal 3
9 May 2015 Misc
Another bug bear here, one of several about Manchester Airport! The biggest issue with them is pickups - the sheer cheek of charging for you to go and collect your friends and familys from the termial is bordering on criminal.
Not content with charging an arm and a leg for airlines to use the airport they impose additional pain of 'just' more »
The secrets of Alex Dowsett's hour record bike
2 May 2015 Cycle
Had an awesome time watching Alex Dowsett's excellent showing at todays world hour record attempt.
First off some stats about the bike:
Canyon Speedmax WHR custom built with track drop outs;
114inch gearing (55x11)
Continental Tempo 22mm tubulars (13-15bar pressure)
Campagnolo Pista disc wheels
Weight 7.71kg
He had a total of four frames more »
Manchester to Paris Charles de Gaulle flight GPX tracklog
1 May 2015 Misc
I don't fly that often so it took me a while to perfect the technique of logging my aeroplane journeys, but I've now cracked it and am getting good results so long as I've got a window seat.
Back in the early days of my Windows mobile powered HTC phones I had GPS available to me but unfortunately this was so early on in the smartphone era that use more »
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