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! 🙁
Backstroke drills and technique
Graham |
19/03/2012
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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
Off on a weekend
Graham |
15/03/2012
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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/
Been fishing
Graham |
07/03/2012
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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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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
Going fishing
Graham |
24/02/2012
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Up this morning with a spring in my step. Off to Jervis Bay via Albury. Going fishing for the week, with my brother John.
Big fish photos in my next post – I hope.
Swim training
Graham |
20/02/2012
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Here it is; a new training year and a new coach. Last coach focused on open water and the technique. New coach is more pool and endurance focused. BTW new coach swam in the P2P in the elite group. No slouch there.
Here is the second training session.
200 freestyle – warm-up
10 * 25 lung busters – for 25m breath each 3 strokes then next 25m 5 strokes and then onward. 20sri
2 repeats of the following set
50 * Lateral kick – on side one arm out in front
50 * Shark fin – fingers slide up and down side, knee to arm pit
50 * 3 stroke switch
50 * two touch freestyle – on upstroke touch armpit and temple with thumb
100 choice easy
8 * 25 kick sprints – using board 30sri
5 * 50 free style – 25 building & 25 sprint tumble turn 30sri
100 pull easy
100 swim/run tumble turn
sri = seconds rest intervals
BTW tumble turn blow out your nose 🙂
Kona (Otway) Odyssey
Graham |
18/02/2012
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Back form volunteering at the Kona Odyssey. Run by the Rapid Ascent group. Only as an helper and gofer.
This is a mountain/bush ride over 50 or 100 km through the Otway Ranges. Why would they do it? Because of the challenge!
I started at 5:00am in Apollo Bay. That meant leaving at 4:00 am, and up at 300 am. But this is not about me. It is about the experience and yes the fun of helping.
Mobile phone apps
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Be aware of the “Cardio Trainer” app that comes preloaded on the Motorola defy+. If you start it (to see what it does) you cannot interrupt, delete, or uninstall it.
This program constantly tells you that you have not lost any calories to date. You can stop the app, through the settings, but as soon as there is a restart; there it is. It will want to update all the time and will nag you to do so.
I have contacted the app provider and although there was a “nice” reply, the result is – you are stuck with it.
I am not obese, bulimic or anorexic. However I would have concerns if this app was running on a phone whose owner had personal image issues.
This is not the end of this……… With Motorola or Telstra 🙁