EFAA Field Round – August
I didn’t fancy any of the NFAS shoots that were organised for the first Sunday in August so I decided to give the Artemis EFAA shoot a go. It was another field round, the same as the previous two EFAA shoots at Artemis so I thought it would be good …
EBHC 2014 – Confolens, France
It’s taken me a while to get around to writing this, mainly because I’ve been so busy since I got back but also partly because I wanted to let a little time pass so I could give a more balanced account. The picture above is of our accommodation for the …
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 & …
Get Email Alerts For Root Login Events
As I’ve already stated in previous posts, I’m a bit of a paranoid server operator. I’m responsible for several servers that are sat out there on the big bad internet of things and I like to know what’s happening with them. One of the biggest areas of concern is SSH …
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 …
WordPress, BackWPUP and SELINUX
I’ve been using the BackWPup plugin to back up my WordPress sites after a recent mishap. It seems to be one of the best free plugins that will take a full backup of a WordPress site. It not only backs up the backend database but also the entire file system. …
Scottish 50/50 Championships
The 2014 Scottish 50/50 Championships were held on the 19th and 20th April in Parton, near Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway. As always, they were hosted by Auld Kirk Bowmen. What was unusual was that this year would be the last year of the competition. I’ve only been shooting …
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 …