Short write-up about a rather lovely weekend at the Double Trouble Rally with the Silverbacks.
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And we’re off!!
Micha is off to Oz!
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Garmin and map updates..
Adventures in installing maps for the UK and Western Europe onto a Garmin Zumo 660 at once.
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Suunto Mosquito Dive Computer
Getting a second-hand Suunto Mosquito connected to a PC (Windows and Linux).
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Kobo Glo – Update
Updated Kobo Glo review covering some of the early Cons.
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Kobo Glo – First impressions
First hour with my new Kobo Glo eBook reader.
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Windows 7 – RTC using UTC
Ok, so this is more a note for my future self than anything interesting, but basically, to force Windows to keep the computer’s RTC at UTC (required if dual-booting Linux, and also just in general makes sense), adjust the following registry key:
Key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\RealTimeIsUniversal Type: DWORD Value: 1 (RTC is in UTC) , 0 (RTC is in local time (default)
Alternatively, save the following as a registry key file (.reg), and import it into your registry:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation] "RealTimeIsUniversal"=dword:00000001
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Little Ship Club Calais Rally – 2014
Short write-up of the Little Ship Club’s 87th Calais Rally.
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inFAMOUS (PS3) – completed
Completed inFAMOUS today on HARD difficulty.
Enjoyable game with good storyline. Apart from the very last battle, it wasn’t all that difficult. Unfortunately the game saves don’t track played time so not sure how long it took me as it was spread out across about 4 weekends and a couple of evenings.
Only annoyance is that I didn’t end up with enough points to buy all the upgrades and now with the city pretty much cleaned up there’s no easy way to gain more XP. It is designed to be played multiple times, making different choices each time, but I’m not sure I’ve got the time to go through it again – much rather get started on inFAMOUS 2 now!
For anybody starting the game, if you want to maximise your trophy collection with only a single playthrough:
* do lots of fighting and leave some of the side-quests until later; this allows you to gain more XP in the long run. Side-quests can be completed after the main storyline is done.
* save the game prior to every karma choice, then do each mission both ways.
* carefully search each city block the first time you get to it and collect all the shards; otherwise searching for the last few shards will be a pain as you will have to comb the entire city for them.
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“Cats” in Wimbledon
Evening out to see “Cats” at the New Wimbledon Theatre.