A bit early for this to be posted, but this is how I de-stress. Ready to race, more to come later!!
development / design / photography / (and a bit of triathlon)
Today is the day everything gets set and ready for tomorrow! Race briefing, bike setup, but also getting Ellen to do a triathlon of her own!
Two days before the big race, after almost two weeks of feeling a bit unwell and a day of travel. Today was time to shake it up a bit!
Welcome to Calella de la Costa, 50Km north of Barcelona. It’s hot, it’s windy, and the roads are perfect. Bring on the race!
Here’s a letter to Brittany Ferries I make open because it’s really a shame that the only services operating between England and Cherbourg suffer from frankly bad customer service when on-board staff is doing all it can to make it work! @BrittanyFerries should really sort itself out! Read the rest of this entry »
The functions.php file should be known to everyone developing a wordpress theme, as it’s a neat way to group all your theme’s utilities, as well as load special files, scripts and override the default, out-of-the-box wordpress functions and loaded javascript files.
However, there are a few things one need to remember when writing code in that file, and it’s not always easy to understand why. Specifically, registering and enqueueing scripts can be a bit tricky if you don’t understand how the functions.php file is loaded.
One of the biggest problem is understanding the scope and load/execution time time of what is in that file. I’ve scratched my head a few times on it, and hopefully, I now understand it better and will manage to write it down correctly! Read the rest of this entry »
Parcel Farce
Today I received a strange phone call. Someone whom I forgot the name from claimed to be from parcelforce, and told me there was a parcel waiting to be delivered to me, but for security reasons, in case I wasn’t able to receive it myself, he needed me to give me “two security names”…
Now, I’m aware those sort of phone calls are simply dumb stupid recruiters trying to obtain names of people inside the company, and I could well have hung up straight away, but I was keen to dig a bit more!
This post could also be entitled/summarised with “rant, rant, rant”, but for my own sake, I’ll make the effort of explaining what’s behind it.
My full time job title is “Front-end developer”. To anyone outside the web industry, it either means “err…. no idea”, or “a dude that makes websites”. To the initiated and (most) of my coworkers and industry pals, it means a whole lot more: I’m an expert in HTML, CSS, javascript (front-end technologies)… Read the rest of this entry »
Last Sunday was the Hillingdon triathlon. A short race, not a sprint, but not an Olympic either, and in a strange swim – run – bike format.
I was going to go flat out, just to push the legs, the lungs, the heart, and the machine, and it all worked out well until 2K from the end. Read the rest of this entry »
Sunday 22nd of May was my first big race of the season, and first middle distance race ever, an almost half ironman in the beautiful new forest, near Southampton. Here’s my race report…
The Swashbuckler 2011