Infinitely Pointless

The mindless ramblings of a bow shooting network engineer.
Infinitely Pointless

Infinitely Pointless

Life Updates

If you’re one of the few people who have visited this site on and off over the last couple of years, you will undoubtedly have noticed the lack of new content or updates. As is usually the case, life has gotten in the way of me posting updates to this …

Self Isolation

So I’m in to week two of working from home. We’re not completely locked down yet in the UK but the government did issue some new restrictions on movement this evening to try and comabt the spread of covid-19. As of now, people should only be leaving their homes for …

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

I haven’t really had too much to say on the subject so far. Other than the over hyped media coverage and misinformation that is being circulated it’s been more of a minor irritation and annoyance than anything else. As has been well publicised, there has been panic buying of certain …

Scotland 2019

Another trip to Scotland for us in 2019, back to the same area around Loch Lomond although to a different cottage and at a different time of year. We decided to make the trip for my birthday this year which meant early July. Fortunately my birthday falls just before the …

Final Practice

The weather was particularly good yesterday and it made a nice change to the rain and wind we’ve had this week. I decided it was a good chance to get some final preparation in for the 3Ds, so I finished work early and headed down to the wood. The weather …

Woodend Field Archers

My second competitive shoot of 2015 was at one of the courses I’ve come to hate. Before anyone bites my head off, there is nothing wrong with the course. It’s a very tricky, challenging course. I just hate it because a lot of it is out in the open and …

2015 Archery

My 2015 archery season got underway properly yesterday at the Castle Bowmen open shoot in Woodhall Spa. I’ve already done a couple of friendly shoots this year but nothing too serious, although I wouldn’t exactly call yesterdays attempt serious. I knew it would be hard work, when l started the …

S-Boston Handwarmer

I’ve been debating whether or not to get a couple of reusable hand warmers for a year or so now. When I’m out shooting in winter I really need to keep my fingers warm. Up until now I’ve been using the disposable type, the particular brand I’ve always used are …

Gallery Clearout

As I start 2015 and try to get my photography organised, I’ve come to the conclusion I have way too many on-line galleries to upload my images to. I currently have around 8 or 9 places I upload images to, including Flickr, 500px, Behance, Nikon Image Space and a few …

Cisco ASA VPN and PSKs

If you’ve ever configured a VPN on a Cisco PIX or ASA and used pre shared keys or PSKs, you’ll know that once they’ve been entered in the the configuration they simple appear as ‘*****’. If you ever need to make changes or duplicate the VPN configuration on another firewall, …

Artemis June EFAA Shoot

With the EBHC fast approaching it was time for more EFAA practice and another round at the Artemis wood. I had hoped to shoot a different round this time out but it ended up being another field round. I’m not too disappointed, the field round is a good test of …

2014 NFAS 3D Championships

I’ve deliberately waited a while after the competition before writing this post. To say I was a little disappointed when the results were announced is an understatement, hopefully now the initial disappointment has passed I can give a more open minded assessment. After my third place in Scotland, I was …

Biorb Intelligent LED Light

I can never find the bloody instructions for the light on our Biorb fish tank and it’s not the most intuitive piece of equipment I’ve ever used so I thought I’d stick the instructions here so I’d always know where I can find them.   The Intelligent Light Manual & …

Bluebells & Sunshine

As you can see from the picture above, the woodland was looking great for the Long Eaton Field Archers open shoot. Unfortunately, the only camera I had with me was my on my iPhone so the picture really doesn’t do the scene justice. Still, it gave me something to do …

Free DNS Services

As part of moving this website to a new server in order to try and speed things up a tad, I had to change some DNS records on several of the domains I own. I’ve mostly been using the free control panel provided by my domain registrar to mange the …

New Blog

After noticing a considerable slow down on my old blog, I’ve redesigned and re-launched it on a new server. I hope you like the new layout, as you can see there is already some new material here and I’ve also copied over some of the old material. I’m in the …

Get off my cloud

No, this isn’t a post about music. Although that is a great song. It’s actually a post about “Cloud Storage”. Let’s get one thing straight from the outset. I hate the term “cloud”. It means nothing, cloud storage is simply storage attached to a server or servers somewhere on the …

Lightroom Mobile

In case you missed Adobe’s announcement last week, Lightroom has gone mobile. Or more specifically there is now a Lightroom app for the iPad. I’ve been waiting for this announcement for a while. I’ve used photosmith previously, but I’ve found the sync process clunky at best, but up until now …

First EFAA Shoot of 2014

I’ve already entered several NFAS competitions this year with varying results, but so far haven’t completed any EFAA rounds. Given that we’re off to France in June to compete in the European Bow Hunter Championships and the fact that there seems to be some confusion as to whether a classification …

2013 Goals

I’m not normally the type of person that makes new year resolutions and I guess these aren’t really resolutions but I figured I needed to make a list of things I wanted to achieve this year. CCNP I’m going to need to recertify my CCDA this year anyway which means …