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Back in the Saddle 👌

So first week recovering from the back strain was agony. Standing up to work was ok for 15 minutes, sitting down followed that and then the pain kicked in...4 days or working in the house rotating my environment like that. 😒 Finally, I knew I had to get out. So,

Injured! 😢

It began with a simple thing - packing the car to drive to UK to get ahead of the game for COVID quarantine and hill time for bogs, paths, trails and midges. Disaster struck on the last final piece (no joke) of luggage being pushed into the boot of the

Back on the Treadmill

The long 11 week run in to the CWU begins. I have been taking it easy for the last 10 days, its been busy at work, two days off, so a long weekend and some golf. Tomorrow kicks it off with 40km split into 15-10-15 runs morning, lunchtime and evening.

Long Run

With a weeks holiday coming to a close, I decided to go for a long run - to check where physical ailments would show up as I extend distance. This was essentially a road run on paths - all flat. Weather was forecast for cloud and no rain - perfect.

Training "Crash"

So, once I finished the 150km week, I took a week off. Not a good idea. First day back after 7 run free days (2 rounds of golf though), I ran 15, 10, 15 on the Monday. Tuesday, I woke up with really heavy legs but managed 15 in the

Weekly 150KM Target Hit 👍

Reached 150km this week. But its hard at the end. Legs take about 10 minutes to get going at the beginning of each run. After that they just get to a pain threshold which is comfortable. No injuries, no strains, just a steady pace, keeping heartrate around 135-140 if possible

100KM in a Working Week 👍

Successfully managed 100km in 5 days,: 4 x 20km (2 x 10km), 1 x 20km Target now is to get to 1150km per week by end March. To try and ensure no overdoing it (keep average heartrate around 140bpm) the weeks will go like this: w/c 1st - 75km

CWU Postponed

The Cape Wrath Ultra has, because of indications from England, and no indications from Scotland, been postponed 2 months until the 1st-8th August. I guess we were all expecting it but nevertheless its too far to continue the same build up, but not far enough to slow down the training

CWU Training Update

CWU update status

Cape Wrath Ultra - 2021

This blog/page will document my journey to (of course) completing the Cape Wrath Ultra, 400km over 8 days through the highlands of Scotland. Stay tuned...

PowerShell

Saving the (disappearing) Windows 10 Lock Screen Images

Window 10 lock screen images come and go - driven by Microsoft. They are always unique and typically you wish you could save them for future background images. Well its possible. Windows 10 lock screen image files are uniquely named (without a file type) and are created and saved (albeit

A Changing World

I write this 4 months into the largest global crisis that has hit the world in living memory (more than a generation), with lost lives, lost jobs, lost businesses, and the inability (through government intervention) for face to face human interaction (for at least more than 2 at a time)

Note to self: Mail Config for Ghost

So you know. Configuring SMTP for sending emails is a bit tricky with secure connections. See below for correct config in the config.production.json file: "mail": { "transport": "SMTP", "from": "'Mickey Mouse' xxxxx@probablynotinteresting.com", "options": { "host": "ms.xxx.com", "port": 587, "secureConnection": false, "requiresAuth": true, "tls": { "ciphers": "SSLv3" }, "auth"

Office 365

IGNITE! SharePoint Migration Tool !BURN

Four words sum up my experiences with the recently announced SharePoint Migration Tool. Another bomb from Microsoft.. Downloading and installing is pretty easy, but then try and use it: Doesnt have ADAL support built in and so you need cloud identity and pasword. Whats with all the retro design? Once

Ghost + Plesk = Rubbish

Recently I was getting fed up using ISPCONFIG3 for managing my sites. So I opted to go for Plesk. Lots of support, good interface, highly recommended, and supported nodejs for Ghost (uh-oh!) Long story short - took hours to migrate all my webs, databases and settings over to Plesk from

Office 365

Conference Time Again!

Another exciting event! I have been (again) fortunate to be invited to speak at a leading SharePoint conference - this time in the Netherlands. The SharePoint Unite Conference, will host some leading lights in the SharePoint and Office 365 world. Some great sessions coming up. Register Now! My fellow SharePoint

Office 365

Leaving..On a Jet Plane..

While looking forward to speaking at the Digital Workplace Conference in Sydney Australia, I am not particularly looking forward to 26 hours in a plane. Daniel and I have been working on the migration presentation, and going back through hundreds of emails and files from the past 2 years was

Office 365

Office 365 Recycle Bin - A Confusing (and disturbing) Story

When the recycle bin goes bad....

General

Digital WorkPlace Conference - Sydney 2017

For me, 2017 is a year of new challenges and one of these is standing in front of more than 10 people (I hope) and presenting some content. I am really excited (this as you know is a trademark Microsoft saying) to be presenting at the #DMCAU in Sydney on

General

Welcome to My World!

Ok. I originally started a blog post a few weeks ago, and then, to cut a long story short, ended up deleting my web server to rebuild it and forgot to back up the (very) new blog site. Bah! About Me I live in Netherlands. I work for an oil