Well, last night was my last training run before my next 10Km run. And this time I've got a target...
When it's come to official timing, I've managed a 10Km in just over 58 minutes. This time I want to get it to under 55. But what's the point in me doing a run if that's the kind of time I'm going to manage? Odds on bet the winner will do it in something like 35 minutes; I'm not unfit, it's just that I'm not a very good runner; I eat fairly well and am generally pretty healthy, so I don't need to do this in order to keep fit.
I do it because I'm not very good at it. Because running reminds me that I'm not the best at things that I do. It's blindingly obvious that there are people out there that are vastly superior to me on the track. In fact, there are 60 year olds out there that are faster than me. When I did my one and only half marathon I was beaten by a veteran speed walker.
But I'm getting better. I'm learning more about running and training, and I will get faster. One day I may manage under 45 minutes... and then I'll have to pick something else.
The last run of the year will be the Rainforest Foundation 10Km, and if you know me (and want to), you can sponsor me.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Countries I've visited
A friend pointed me in the direction of this little beauty: A site that generates a map of the world showing the countries you've visited.
I've got to admit that the comments on the site are more actual fun than the map, but still...
So here's mine:
Not that impressive.
Fingers crossed, if all goes to plan, in 18 months it'll look more like this:
Though still, it'll look nothing like as impressive as Tom Kyte's "countries I've in which I've given presentations" ;-)
I've got to admit that the comments on the site are more actual fun than the map, but still...
So here's mine:
Not that impressive.
Fingers crossed, if all goes to plan, in 18 months it'll look more like this:
Though still, it'll look nothing like as impressive as Tom Kyte's "countries I've in which I've given presentations" ;-)
Friday, September 15, 2006
Make your own mind up
Earlier today Bob Binder made a comment on my test conference entry that included a (not too complimentary) summary of his talk. In response to his comment I made a statement that I want to make absolutely clear to everyone else...
I thought that every single one of the talks at the conference was worth attending.
Every one had value, and I think you should watch every one on Google video.
If any comment on an individual talk makes it sound uninviting it doesn't mean it wasn't a good talk. The conference quality was far above the norm, and every talk is worth seeing. And you can, they're on Google Video
Other than that, I invite comments from the speakers, other attendees and anyone that might disagree with me. Just because I have an opinion, doesn't mean that I don't want to hear yours! But don't expect me to agree with you ;-)
I thought that every single one of the talks at the conference was worth attending.
Every one had value, and I think you should watch every one on Google video.
If any comment on an individual talk makes it sound uninviting it doesn't mean it wasn't a good talk. The conference quality was far above the norm, and every talk is worth seeing. And you can, they're on Google Video
Other than that, I invite comments from the speakers, other attendees and anyone that might disagree with me. Just because I have an opinion, doesn't mean that I don't want to hear yours! But don't expect me to agree with you ;-)
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
XHTML Transitional
OK, so it's taken a bit of time, though very little effort (if you know what I mean), and I think it's probably one of the sadest exercises I've ever gone through (pretty difficult to believe, I know)... BUT the home page of this site is now XHTML Transitional compliant.
It's been validated in two seperate sources.
First up, the obvious: W3C 's online validator
Secondly (because one is never enough), the much handier HTML Validator Firefox extension by Marc Gueury, which is based on the Tiny validator.
The plan is to keep any new posts to the site XHTML transitional compliant. Though I've got no plans to go back and fix earlier posts. Frankly I've got better things to do with my time than remove the <br /> tags that Blogger sticks between <li> tags and change all the &s to &s in the hrefs. :)
At least the site finally looks the same in Firefox and IE6 now!
Update: Is it just me, or is the commented out CDATA tag inside the script tag telling the browser that there's unstructured data a bit of a hack. I know my javascript should be in a different file, but I don't have any hosting for the files, and I'm not going to set it up for 2 or 3 1K files!. Anyway, you'd think the spec would cover this problem in a more natural way. Maybe an attribute on the tag
I'm no XML expert, but the solution seems more than a bit nasty to me.
It's been validated in two seperate sources.
First up, the obvious: W3C 's online validator
Secondly (because one is never enough), the much handier HTML Validator Firefox extension by Marc Gueury, which is based on the Tiny validator.
The plan is to keep any new posts to the site XHTML transitional compliant. Though I've got no plans to go back and fix earlier posts. Frankly I've got better things to do with my time than remove the <br /> tags that Blogger sticks between <li> tags and change all the &s to &s in the hrefs. :)
At least the site finally looks the same in Firefox and IE6 now!
Update: Is it just me, or is the commented out CDATA tag inside the script tag telling the browser that there's unstructured data a bit of a hack. I know my javascript should be in a different file, but I don't have any hosting for the files, and I'm not going to set it up for 2 or 3 1K files!. Anyway, you'd think the spec would cover this problem in a more natural way. Maybe an attribute on the tag
unstructured="true"Maybe
type="CDATA"Maybe it can be implied by the script tag itself?
I'm no XML expert, but the solution seems more than a bit nasty to me.
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