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Riversdale

Simon — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 19:19:46 +0000

Went to Riversdale for christmas.

Spent a couple of days playing on the beach and relaxing. And digging a big hole. As you do…

I bought myself a sextant for christmas and used the opportunity of being at the beach to teach myself how to use it. I don’t have a false horizon on my sextant, so having a real one was nice. I managed to locate my position. Apparently I was in Riversdale. Actually, I wasn’t, but I wasn’t too far wrong.

Another site

Simon — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:30:06 +0000

I decided it’s time to set up a new web site to replace an old and outdated site.

I registered simonmcauliffe.com on a whim. It seems a bit self-obsessed, but I noticed it was free and figured I should take it before one of those other Simon McAuliffes stole it. So then I had this domain, and had to do something with it. So here’s a site.

I’ll probably import some old items, so there will magically be some items before this first post.

Climbing shoes

Simon — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:27:49 +0000

Got some new climbing shoes today.

They’re 5.10 Coyote Stealth C4 shoes.

They hurt like a bitch.

They do seem to have really pretty good grip on the wall though.

Monkey Menace

Simon — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:08:29 +0000

Placed a new cache by the zoo today.

Penguin Power

Simon — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:35:39 +0000

My back was destroyed by my Friday run for some reason. I was supposed to run butterfly creek today with Magnus but bailed in the end.

Instead I opted for some gentle walking to help my back recover.

We checked out a couple of geocaches and placed a new one GC1BMV7 “Penguin Power”

Fins etc

Simon — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:25:05 +0000

Boughts some fins, snorkel and mask at Rebel for $62.87. Pretty crap, but pretty cheap. Might try them out tomorrow if my back is up to it.

Also went and visited a couple of geocaches around the city.

Got some gaiters

Simon — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:07:45 +0000

ANZAC day, so no work.

I went out to Petone to buy some running Gaiters. They were on sale and only cost $14.

After I got those, I ran home. I didn’t wear them.

Today I also refined a process for taking courses planned on Google Earth, and adding altitude information to them, and putting them into my Forerunner 305 as a course. It’s actually really easy, but a bit crap:

Make course on Google Earth and export as KML.
Use Viking to load it and add the DEM elevation data. Save as .gpx.
Use the gpx2crs application to convert to a course, and send to GPS. This is the crap bit, because I have to do this on Windows which means starting up VMWare. GPX2CRS is a .net application. Since I’m on Windows anyway, I just use Training Center to do the upload. I might be able to use gpsbabel to send a crs file too, but haven’t figured out for sure yet.