Al: a blog about bikes and stuff.
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Unfit Al!
Went over to Cwmcarn yesterday with Bob (sister) for a “quick loop” of the Cwmcarn XC trail and to have a play on the new freeride trail up on the top. Clearly I have not ridden a bike in too long and I must not do enough (any!) exercise in between.
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RAM Prices
Bah. When I bought my MacBook at the start of July, 2GB of RAM for it was 180quid at Crucial.com. I didn’t buy it as I thought I would see how I went. Mid/end of July RAM was 140, I didn’t buy ‘cos I wanted to wait until after I was paid. I got paid,…
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Weekend ‘op Norf
It was Colin and Amy‘s engagement party this weekend, so SO and I headed up to Warrington. Strangely enough it isn’t at all grim up north, in fact it was an excellent weekend 🙂 Particular highlights included chocolate chili, a tidy (and I mean tidy!) study and great company. The M6 tried to spoil the…
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ADSL woes
A friend asked me today if my ADSL has been more unreliable, disconnects etc, after I moved to 8MBit. I thought about it and thought not, but in retrospect I think he is right, ADSL MAX sucks for uptime, mine is down again. Bastards. I need to make my router reboot itself when the line…
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MacBook, 1 month on.
Its been a month since I bought my MacBook so I thought I’d air my views (its unlike me to have an opinion, eh!). Its thin. I had a G3/800Mhz iBook before (and have a G4/1.33GHz iBook for work) and it feels noticeably thinner but that makes me worry about snapping it. Its wide and…
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Gallery2 mod_rewrite
I finally got bothered enough to configure “friendly URLs” on my Gallery2 install, which I really should have done properly to start with when I migrated from G1 to G1. Looks much nicer now 🙂 Plus, it looked like today’s Hungarian GP will be a wet one. Is this a good thing? I can’t remember,…
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Exim and spamassassin
Okay, how do I make it so mail for which my Exim is a relay (high MX) is not scanned by spamd? Whilst I don’t mind filtering spam out of ‘s and others mail, I’d like the option in case they do. Thanks.
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Morgins spamd
I have given spamassassin a thorough going over on Morgins. Configs tweaked, razor2 added, RBL stuff added though no SPF for an odd reason I have yet to work out. Several thousand spam mails stuck through sa-learn too. Hopefully this will help stop mailboxes filling up with junk and ham mail ending up in spam…
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Cheating commuter!
I was on the train after work in the way to the SO’s and I spotted this bike which amused me. The pic is a little blurred, but the chainstay sticker says “Team Single Speed” and on face value it looks like single speed bike, but… the extra cables attached to the rear brake boss…
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Cyclists and road laws
<rant> I was pleased to read this article on the BBC News website today. It annoys me that many cyclists think that they can jump red lights, ride on the pavement and generally do what they want. They can’t, they are covered by the same laws as cars in these regards. I stop at red…
Got any bike recommendations?