Monthly Archives: March 2012

App upgrade & name change

Graham | 21/03/2012 | COMMENTS:No Comments »

Do you have and Android phone?  Looking for the Market icon to download an application (app)?

Well Google has quietly upgraded it to “Play Store”.  Real name is “Google Play Store.”

It is a bit irritating when they don’t tell you! 🙁

 

Category: Mobiles

Backstroke drills and technique

Graham | 19/03/2012 | COMMENTS:No Comments »

Today – Backstroke drills and technique.

200 freestyle

8*25 kick with board

8*25 lateral kick – alternate side each  25 m

4*25 sprint – on the water surface hard kick

 

Back stroke drills

100      back streamline kick

50        back & balance cup on forehead

100      Rotators – on back, alternate rotate shoulders vertical, keeping head still

50        Rotators & balance cup on forehead

100      larm – close to lane rope pull on it to go forward, kicking as well.

50        double arm – as in backstroke but both arms together

50        backstroke

 

1200 meters

 

 

Category: Swimming

Off on a weekend

Graham | 15/03/2012 | COMMENTS:No Comments »

Heading off for a weekend with the Ex Techs Social Club.  Together some 35 years. Should be great.

 

In the meantime all is good in the Fortress of Solitude.

 

UPDATE  18/3/2012

We are back.  What a great catchup.  Some photos on the techs website soon.
http://techs.burrellfamily.com.au/

 

Category: Holidays

Love It

Graham | 14/03/2012 | COMMENTS:No Comments »

 

 

 

Category: Jokes and stories

Been fishing

Graham | 07/03/2012 | COMMENTS:No Comments »

Travelled to Albury where I joined up with John, Matthew and Carl.  Off to Jervis Bay NSW. About 6 hours travel from Albury. Arrived and found the agent for the house.  Picked up the keys and moved into the digs.  Comfortable enough.

Up next morning at 4:40am breakfast then off and back around 6:00pm.  This was the procedure for each day.

The company was excellent but the fishing was disappointing.  Couldn’t catch anything of size.  By example; kingfish need to be 65cm to keep and all could get was around 50cm.  Great sport mind you but no keepers.

The weather was against us.  Wrong tides and wind.  Then the rain.  Good grief, did it come down.  So much so the areas around us were flooding.  So after 4 days it was too dangerous so we packed up (in the heavy rain) and left.

We caught lots of size spikey rockies and leather jackets some Flathead.   However I did catch a 40cm morwong.   Very pleased about that I am!

It was a great experience but a disappointing fishing trip.  I would go again.

 

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Category: Fishing

Linux experence

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Have been playing around with Ubuntu server.  So decided to setup a web server in the workshop.

Loaded Ubuntu server, XAMPP, WebMin, and WordPress.  Redirected port 80 on the router.  Now it goes.  I intend to make a HowTo pdf in time.  but for now have a look.

 

 

UPDATE 23/3/2012 

Too late It is down for now

 

Category: Linux