tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-157590152024-02-29T21:36:21.621+00:00Ric's BlogThis is Ric's general blogRichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-50983797997026379762011-04-28T17:47:00.003+01:002011-04-28T17:54:04.138+01:00St George's Day Walk 2011April 23 saw the annual St George's Day Walk in aid of Help for Heroes. Over 200 people walked the 5 miles from The Smiths Arms to the Windmill Tavern, Hand and Dagger, Sitting Goose, Saddle Inn and back to The Smiths Arms in order to raise over £2,000.<div><br /></div><div>Photos from the day can be found on Flickr <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rm-charlton/sets/72157626593142368/">here</a>.<br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-50992004995622317992010-09-05T19:07:00.007+01:002010-09-06T19:01:54.155+01:00Windows 7 Profile WoesBack in the days of good old Windows XP there was three ways of assigning a profile to your users:<br /><ol><li>Roaming Profiles</li><br /><li>Mandatory Profiles</li><br /><li>A Default Profile stored in NETLOGON</li></ol>I always chose to use the shared Default profile method but when changing to Windows 7, wiered things started to happen...<br /><br />Every time a user logged on, they would receive a notification balloon informing them that they had been logged on with a temporary profile and accompanied by a message that my users found quite scary since it mentioned that none of their work would be saved! Whilst this was happening I was also experiencing a problem where folder re-direction would fail every other time that a user logged into a machine. This was particularly annoying!<br /><br />So where to start?<br /><br />I decided that the temporary profile warning must be because of using the default profile method above. The obvious thing to do then was switch to a different method with mandatory profiles being the most obvious. However, Microsoft decided that, as of Vista, it would make the production of mandatory profiles a pain in the arse. To find out how bad it is, see the <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973289">Technet </a>guide.<br /><br />I spent a whole day building a nice fresh Windows 7 virtual machine so that I could create the mandatory profile. I followed the instructions to the letter only to have it not work! Onto roaming profiles then.<br /><br />It was now time to experience a roaming profile problem. Despite activating a roaming profile for a user, I was still receiving the temporary profile warning and the profile directory did not contain anything. It trned out that there was some old profile information being left somewhere. To delete this old data I discovered a VBScript that basically does the same job as delprof.exe (which doesn't work for Vista or Windows 7).<br /><br />Next it was onto the randomness of the folder re-direction failing to apply every other time somebody logged on. I eventually found an event log entry that mentioned that the 'logon optimization policy' was preventing folder-redirection from working. That's right... Windows optomized the logon by turning all the useful stuff off!<br /><br />I eventually discovered that this was to do with a change in the way Windows performs <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc787386(WS.10).aspx">'asynchronous processing and logon optomization'</a>. Long story short... enabling the 'always wait for the network at computer startup and logon' GPO setting immediately cured the problem!<br /><br />So to summarise... turn on roaming profiles and enable the 'always wait for the network at computer startup and logon' GPO and your life will be much easier!Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-29193936665135302672010-09-05T12:38:00.004+01:002010-09-05T13:02:22.990+01:00Migrating from Zimbra to Exchange 2010<p>Some time ago I switched from using Exchange 2003 to Zimbra to try to reduce the TCO of the school's messaging services. Switching to Zimbra was painless with a handy little tool to copy all the users and their data across.</p><p>After several years of admirable service, the time has come to switch back to Exchange so that we can exploit some of its more advanced features and integrate it with our forthcoming OCS implementation. The problem is... how do you migrate all the data to Exchange?</p><p>No simple tool seems to exist for the purpose and, short of opening each mailbox and manually copying the mail, I was struggling to find an easy solution.</p><p>I stumbled across a post on <a href="http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows/60839-migrating-unix-mailboxes-exchange-2007-a.html">EduGeek.net</a> where somebody was suffering a similar problem and it gave me two solutions to my dilemma:</p><ol><li>Set up an Exchange 2007 server and use Microsoft Transporter Suite for Internet Mailboxes to migrate the mailboxes to Exchange 2007. After this the mailboxes could be migrated to Exchange 2010.</li><br /><li>Use <a href="http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/imapcopy/imapcopy.html">IMAPCopy</a> to copy straight to Exchange 2010.</li></ol><p>I obviously picked option number two because the first option seemed like hard work.</p><p>The whole process seemed to work quite well although I have since discovered that some mail was 'lost' during the bigger batches so it is worth writing the output to a file and double checking it for error messages. You should also be warned that it's not the quickest process in the world and attempting to run multiple copies of IMAPCopy at once simply doesn't work!</p>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-85509346834293396672010-09-04T18:12:00.006+01:002010-09-04T18:32:00.015+01:00My poor neglected blogIs it really that long since I last posted on my blog?!? OMG!<br /><br />It has been super busy at work since November... trying to get things prepared for the Windows 7 and server 2008 R2 rollout. With the little darlings back on Tuesday, I've nearly managed to get everything sorted and I should have a few minutes spare to update my blog.<br /><br />Watch out for a post about profile pitfalls very soon!Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-48940450296753506412009-11-29T14:31:00.001+00:002009-11-29T14:31:59.440+00:00Adobe Badges<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rm-charlton/4141361462/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2774/4141361462_24d98e9969_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rm-charlton/4141361462/">IMG_3159</a><br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/rm-charlton/">Ric Charlton</a></span></div>I was sorting through some 'old' pictures to upload to Flickr and stumbled across this one.<br /><br />I'd forgotten I'd taken this and, I think, it's rather good :-)<br clear="all" />Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-71317198003600921732009-11-23T22:19:00.005+00:002009-11-23T22:42:17.744+00:00Noise versus ISO for Canon EOS 1DsGary recently pointed me towards a forum post discussing noise on a EOS 40D at different ISO settings. The forum post can be seen here.<br /><br />This whole 'faking' of ISO settings - basically using a full stop lower ISO setting and boosting the EV in camera which caused problems.<br /><br />It seems that the 5D also suffers from this, although the effect is seen at different points through the ISO range. This got me thinking... does my 1Ds do the same thing? An experiment was required!<br /><br />After a few practices, I settled on the following conditions:<br /><br /><br /><ol><br /><br /><li>Camera set to Manual</li><br /><br /><li>No lens - just the body cap</li><br /><br /><li>Eye-piece cover shut</li><br /><br /><li>Exposure time set to 30 seconds (this exagerated the noise at very low ISO)</li></ol><br /><br /><p>I then took a shot at each ISO setting (from 50 to 1250) and measured the mean luminance in Photoshop CS4. That produced the following graph (which didn't show a lot because I didn't have enough noise!).</p><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdqLCgRL37LQollSfs2FC_LfgynfMcKXePpZq_i4dPIs3luLzsDBB45H0Ca0l-VbzhsaEPGbhe0nWN0raWQqWKSc7XJT7V_ahvODctzZ4Lt7N1O4AKl6lTHaNQxmsccOV-ctKv6A/s1600/noise-v-iso_for_eos_1ds_(1).png"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 153px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407432490097480498" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdqLCgRL37LQollSfs2FC_LfgynfMcKXePpZq_i4dPIs3luLzsDBB45H0Ca0l-VbzhsaEPGbhe0nWN0raWQqWKSc7XJT7V_ahvODctzZ4Lt7N1O4AKl6lTHaNQxmsccOV-ctKv6A/s320/noise-v-iso_for_eos_1ds_(1).png" /></a><br /><br /><p>I re-measured the luminance after increasing the EV on each shot by 20. This made for some noisy shots at high ISO (as you would expect!). The following graph was produced which showed the differences a little clearer.</p><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht_AZmzZ1rP6WJsw7pRrShuR-dUgHe1zY9ANauTqy16q7JOJpso5cRP1ccmHbn3ILc7RMobkaoJWF6O8Ti-qrO3MjP23-CgcwzD5aI5yvLy8ukaD_I3or6kOLDCaAma49npYpQ8A/s1600/noise-v-iso_for_eos_1ds_(2).png"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 166px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5407432860455151874" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht_AZmzZ1rP6WJsw7pRrShuR-dUgHe1zY9ANauTqy16q7JOJpso5cRP1ccmHbn3ILc7RMobkaoJWF6O8Ti-qrO3MjP23-CgcwzD5aI5yvLy8ukaD_I3or6kOLDCaAma49npYpQ8A/s320/noise-v-iso_for_eos_1ds_(2).png" /></a><br /><br /><p>So... what does this prove? IMHO, the 1Ds does not suffer from the faking of ISO settings in the same way as the 5D and 40D were described. Although the graphs do not clearly show this, ISO 160 did produce slightly less noise than both those ISOs below and those above it - the difference was only 0.06 on the +20 EV shot mind ;-)</p>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-32969548608988809022009-09-04T18:43:00.004+01:002009-09-04T19:47:53.572+01:00Picasa and FlickrI've been contemplating a switch to Flickr from Picasa Web for some time because it tends to have better integration with many Web 2.0 apps - e.g. Facebook. The main reason stopping me migrating, though, is that I really like Google's <a href="http://picasa.google.com/">Picasa</a> application.<br /><br />Today I came a cross a great little app called <a href="http://picasa2flickr.sourceforge.net/">Picasa2Flickr</a> which adds another button to Picasa which uses <a href="http://www.flickr.com/tools/">Flickr Uploadr</a> to get the selected pictures onto the web. Not the prettiest solution but it does seem to carry across all the titles, tags, etc. (except for the geotag data).<br /><br /><em>A note about the installation though... it's not immediately obvious but you need to click the links in the instructions to get the button to install correctly.</em>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-73584865441809806502009-08-16T12:32:00.002+01:002009-08-16T12:35:21.641+01:00Facebook Test PostThis is a post to check whether adjusting my Blog feed (as per the instructions <a href="http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=42662">here</a>) would allow full posts and piccies to automagically import to Facebook.<br /><br />Anyway... here's a pic...<br /><br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/248GN_nVkM6q7VTQ6NiP4Q?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_O15ECkH1jGo/Sj6f4fMbT2I/AAAAAAAAAlg/cZXo9jGoVBI/s144/343W0021.JPG" /></a>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-51718366266870812202009-08-16T10:37:00.003+01:002009-08-16T10:47:57.661+01:00Blackpool Air DisplayFinally getting caught up on blog stuff since I came back from the EduGeek meetings down south...<br /><br />Before the meetings, I popped along to Blackpool for their annual air display. It was glorious sunshine and it was really nice to relax on the prom at North Shore for a couple of hours.<br /><br />The air show also gave me the opportunity to play with my 500mm camera lens :-) By adding my 1.4x extender I got a full 700mm too :-D<br /><br />Here's a sample of the pics I took (the noise was awesome when the Vulcan flew over - full afterburners, the lot!)<br /><br /><center><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/qvcq8KMLj-1Dt6Ga35P8Fg?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_O15ECkH1jGo/SoW6m2oLDFI/AAAAAAAAA1k/_3YsVrCIgSY/s144/343W0107.JPG" /></a> <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/V1GXmRR4e_OUTbICtrCt4A?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_O15ECkH1jGo/SoW745Zqt7I/AAAAAAAAA1s/JHpF6e2kLfY/s144/343W0323.JPG" /></a> <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/-6YfF-SSVh-Tn_BhkUdiVw?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_O15ECkH1jGo/SoW7_1OtEOI/AAAAAAAAA1w/QN0NO6RiU_U/s144/343W0058.JPG" /></a> <br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/_LNSzRLDX40Ga0HxDz5XTw?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_O15ECkH1jGo/SoW8WYRzzII/AAAAAAAAA10/c28PmwtpTmY/s144/343W0001.JPG" /></a></center>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-90237099765184423852009-08-03T22:31:00.005+01:002009-08-03T22:41:09.043+01:00Pocket Scrobbling!Last.fm is something I've been trying to use to find new music. It's a massive web application that analyses your listening tastes and connects you with bands you may not have heard of and with people with similar tastes to you.<br /><br />A part of the Last.fm experience is the 'Scrobbler'. It basically sits there while you listen to music and sends information to your Last.fm profile - it only sends deatails of tracks that you listen to a certain percentage of though so that you can skip through the rubbish.<br /><br />Anyway, I primarily listen to music on my phone (HTC Touch Pro2), so these haven't been getting 'scrobbled'. Today I stumbled across an app though... the 'Pocket Scrobbler'.<br /><br />The Pocket Scrobbler will work offline too and only send data when you want it too. Brilliant!<br /><br />Check it out at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pocketscrobbler/ - I decided to try the 1.8 beta... TinyURL is http://tinyurl.com/l3qrxw if you want to easily download it onto your device.Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-13344137505413006712009-08-03T21:56:00.002+01:002009-08-03T21:59:44.829+01:00Web albums updatedI just got around to updating my online pics. This post has a couple of my favourites :-)<br /><br /><center><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/AFVecbrtVujKBE60zJR9jQ?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGUfVSUlBTEcuE4o8FzQdm-SPfZlTFSTpiOjLPFyLt18mvKp7_2pliV1dAwUJ1CCp7r1YUCOxS_g9rkH39EG1FJlPtPWsFcC_WNYBdVnyV9TuzZ43k_qccXsOmXqHkJq0SJWgdHw/s144/343W0166.JPG" /></a> <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/slhOTpomg_2Be9gMIc1rAQ?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZWPhZNi09A1XLO_cD4XOvGpM83sbyL101ZfwYkf-cUL_dXAWrsG0bKdfZ5XRQvCk06QMUL5sir9l8rHSp53wn_FNky9d4eIHMEswLSKcGDIBL3t4kDV26iqZzLZ1ALYM7j9lQ9w/s144/343W0011.JPG" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/paGFEHMnwotOeQ1XO4o4pQ?feat=embedwebsite"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq20vstRi7Z-IotdoLEkGPZF-W4xei9AmJ5zOvWJ8bEVZTjCpBxOpdiqt057bWLbS07B537OIYDVtzhyphenhyphensjllGhCmluXhluuADV684PzT6KWcivugaNZFdK6CZoeyZUbgrtc7qD8g/s144/343W0119.JPG" /></a></center>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-71008085823384229702009-07-24T17:00:00.000+01:002009-07-25T14:17:31.638+01:00Lazy cat<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Zesfb6hT9zTl59uat2EpxxlL5-ALz_mCGVHxPiAotf7jRQ1yGB_tIK4JUtnXorVmEDAa3IMHNMun7mWFkir2aNsWWbPPQoR2YRvwEmef31ZKWJHp6Am25EWlt18I-mNmfLIdcA/s1600-h/IMAG0009-725947.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Zesfb6hT9zTl59uat2EpxxlL5-ALz_mCGVHxPiAotf7jRQ1yGB_tIK4JUtnXorVmEDAa3IMHNMun7mWFkir2aNsWWbPPQoR2YRvwEmef31ZKWJHp6Am25EWlt18I-mNmfLIdcA/s320/IMAG0009-725947.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362385322662341890" /></a></p><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT:Normal;'>Came home today to find the cat asleep in a rather unusual position.<br><br>Take a look at the pic!</SPAN>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-27488478407515380102009-07-03T21:48:00.001+01:002009-07-04T00:01:15.736+01:00Matt of the 'Mill<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUhtqksRGYB_hWkgMoViofTbh4lzFPyqNKxjkVlP4cZlZxB0lyvAuV0wtw8lLYHCPkDRj9Ka3ZGzTygn8UGr787feMUoLSSGjn6XQqtg-itOLybF3jDFNiOmLCabslKIiRKDfYUg/s1600-h/IMAG0044-776141.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUhtqksRGYB_hWkgMoViofTbh4lzFPyqNKxjkVlP4cZlZxB0lyvAuV0wtw8lLYHCPkDRj9Ka3ZGzTygn8UGr787feMUoLSSGjn6XQqtg-itOLybF3jDFNiOmLCabslKIiRKDfYUg/s320/IMAG0044-776141.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354339774828783090" /></a></p><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT:Normal;'>Matt (the assistant manager of the Windmill Tavern) is going to kick himself for reminding me of the attached photo :-D<br><br>I think it looks rather fetching ;-)</SPAN>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-85570285656394439282009-07-02T18:07:00.003+01:002009-07-02T18:18:56.357+01:00HTC Touch Pro2So I got myself a second hand Touch Pro and it's been AMAZING. It does everything you want and more with ease. Plus the keyboard made SMS and email a pleasure.<br /><br />I recently had the opportunity to swap it for a Touch Pro2. I knew it would be nicer but it's INCREDIBLE!<br /><br />The phone is quicker, smoother and generally easier to use. The bigger screen is amazing and the battery life is far superior. Hell, even the audio from it is better.<br /><br />I do have one criticism mind... the keyboard isn't as good. The keys are now spaced apart and are bigger - hence less of them. I really think that the old layout should have been kept... it was perfect after all ;-)Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-46202483609659272352009-06-28T00:29:00.001+01:002009-06-28T00:35:27.496+01:00How full?<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoudSCqnIzMNgJ6U43fFkWYYDGdFXR3W8JXGzEylVD18H7gjHikOJdkEaY1NsQva0R2WpcILH7kBIX2-mTX2fwEa1CKUQDSy049Afc-kKBDe3mIaGfcCKkSCWidE1uEUJktVoHSQ/s1600-h/IMAG0046-740836.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoudSCqnIzMNgJ6U43fFkWYYDGdFXR3W8JXGzEylVD18H7gjHikOJdkEaY1NsQva0R2WpcILH7kBIX2-mTX2fwEa1CKUQDSy049Afc-kKBDe3mIaGfcCKkSCWidE1uEUJktVoHSQ/s320/IMAG0046-740836.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352154347893946594" /></a></p><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT:Normal;'>So we all had a good feed at The Fusion Room for Caroline's birthday. I think some people are starting to feel the affects though ;-)</SPAN>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-76642016898423386402009-06-06T21:08:00.003+01:002009-06-06T21:42:00.800+01:00The Windmill does take-out<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjezEwWh0AIUeAnY_AbEKfU4meE7C3PcXQ6pJ1sB8qrd45Ay1K03Meo9UXXB0yJAi-xV5WtXPBIO_OUiXylu_E4ObKVhDKm-oFxWlUqEZ9YPk-i2kfCO21bXkpIbdKpoqK38CxR0w/s1600-h/IMAG0041-785594.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjezEwWh0AIUeAnY_AbEKfU4meE7C3PcXQ6pJ1sB8qrd45Ay1K03Meo9UXXB0yJAi-xV5WtXPBIO_OUiXylu_E4ObKVhDKm-oFxWlUqEZ9YPk-i2kfCO21bXkpIbdKpoqK38CxR0w/s320/IMAG0041-785594.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344314073899187586" /></a></p><p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEgrpyhVFyWKycqCXfMP5wh49SGCBPm1X77q8t7nkKN_nQQGH-DKqCwfS1FYg2WdsjmLghW-x8IjTJmvoZrhMjE5u9OawVrt4L9-nbCW2T980QCiToI0u8BxVj6hywteRWOHTzUQ/s1600-h/IMAG0042-786503.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEgrpyhVFyWKycqCXfMP5wh49SGCBPm1X77q8t7nkKN_nQQGH-DKqCwfS1FYg2WdsjmLghW-x8IjTJmvoZrhMjE5u9OawVrt4L9-nbCW2T980QCiToI0u8BxVj6hywteRWOHTzUQ/s320/IMAG0042-786503.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344314078282978706" /></a></p><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT:Normal;'>2 pint cartons for taking your beer home! Genius!<br><br>The instructions are maybe a little much though... You don't deserve to drink if you think holding the carton upside down is a good idea!!!</SPAN>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-12465491135966309622009-05-30T15:29:00.003+01:002009-05-30T15:30:45.129+01:00Straight from the 80s<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYcbgwSSzq1VC_LCOMy6m7ZHkdoartGI2Di-YYqdR-KVkmwldL-feF0bnAJ3gzO51XBqcKTScgqnQWD901QX1qpwZVDXXBkXsrdmX7KeDcpY4SD1pwB-OC9c1gdM-4efGTyTUpnQ/s1600-h/IMAG0037.jpg"><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341624286711558194" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYcbgwSSzq1VC_LCOMy6m7ZHkdoartGI2Di-YYqdR-KVkmwldL-feF0bnAJ3gzO51XBqcKTScgqnQWD901QX1qpwZVDXXBkXsrdmX7KeDcpY4SD1pwB-OC9c1gdM-4efGTyTUpnQ/s320/IMAG0037.jpg" /></a><br /><div>It's like Gav knew that we were going to be going to the 80s bar and he dressed appropriately!</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-24503043902283597192009-05-27T23:41:00.001+01:002009-05-28T03:06:15.707+01:00The EduGeek giant and his wine<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnIRH7w3KKsLRmR3u8bnlWmSPJHYt5Rm43Gv-iHLW3sgnfm28GO5bH1x8PlCknhXlYQ71MkF2pNa3nETJ0QJF0gYnIU4GEb8oB7jwZV4orfs0rRdahQtLObgFaWfGlHZZjCQW_rQ/s1600-h/IMAG0036-789055.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnIRH7w3KKsLRmR3u8bnlWmSPJHYt5Rm43Gv-iHLW3sgnfm28GO5bH1x8PlCknhXlYQ71MkF2pNa3nETJ0QJF0gYnIU4GEb8oB7jwZV4orfs0rRdahQtLObgFaWfGlHZZjCQW_rQ/s320/IMAG0036-789055.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340638029630241986" /></a></p><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT:Normal;'>Shaun (the EduGeek giant) struggled to drink his red wine out of a normal large wine glass</SPAN>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-59802516104131984602009-05-07T19:27:00.002+01:002009-05-07T19:30:13.080+01:00More Success at The Windmill Quiz<SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT:Normal;'>Whilst I'm waiting in the pub for Chris I thought I'd blog about Tuesday's quiz...<br><br>This week the team comprised four and the questions were a lot easier than last week - last week was particularly difficult!<br><br>Although we almost came joint first (a re-count was called) we ended up second by one point :-( All was not lost though as this achievment won us a round of drinks :-)<br><br>All in all not bad then, eh?!?<br><br></SPAN>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-80630623049774834572009-05-01T19:59:00.001+01:002009-05-01T20:03:49.719+01:00So Tom had chicken<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2I1i5VOanHMK94Nip87zMzUbLubeNTG47ZfGKs-AF65uOlpQeHcb9fOSlyu4VoX4wna_xXS7uspEGhpm6hTYdKqZ1-lROiqcbY3CCSr4754WwtiKEavoxhlquydiAFdqZ7T_pw/s1600-h/IMAGE_024-767456.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2I1i5VOanHMK94Nip87zMzUbLubeNTG47ZfGKs-AF65uOlpQeHcb9fOSlyu4VoX4wna_xXS7uspEGhpm6hTYdKqZ1-lROiqcbY3CCSr4754WwtiKEavoxhlquydiAFdqZ7T_pw/s320/IMAGE_024-767456.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330932596712994018" /></a></p><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT:Normal;'>We eventually got seated and had some food. The food was rather nice... Tom expected a little more medat on his chicken though ;)</SPAN>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-30704528454428310962009-05-01T18:17:00.002+01:002009-05-01T18:24:07.267+01:00Eating out for Dad's birthday<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCx_m7izPdNKK_JdBmQxcNo_E7p0jSJLRcizB3waTEqyV8V7Dqe4t2odbohtC12sVZWesr7u2Vr9AjL2g0K0s3sHMwwNpWtum58_Ku7RFcOLtGHiD8gCjTKPx0SutEqXIQ31cZqA/s1600-h/IMAG0023-789191.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCx_m7izPdNKK_JdBmQxcNo_E7p0jSJLRcizB3waTEqyV8V7Dqe4t2odbohtC12sVZWesr7u2Vr9AjL2g0K0s3sHMwwNpWtum58_Ku7RFcOLtGHiD8gCjTKPx0SutEqXIQ31cZqA/s320/IMAG0023-789191.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330906492157098338" /></a></p><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT:Normal;'>We decided to go out for a meal since it is Dad's birthday and Will suggested 'The Bobbin Mill' at Buckshaw.<br><br>After getting lost we're all here now but we aren' allowed to sit down and eat because there's no tables (see picture!)<br><br>Anyway... Only another 30 mins to wait.</SPAN>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-6949439047850847582009-04-24T21:27:00.001+01:002009-04-24T22:46:58.130+01:00Blogtastic Birthday Gift<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTN9gorraggWRMGu6s85FB5cI8Xgytvr4wvU3q-ZfY0qHAnqHJCWHCz86YY2at1g_hlgEOuaUlzJmcyEwRw2Q6FY0y6a3r15dF-F8rmu1aBsQ893dxq_mjWAbr0Rdu5Id518P4Bw/s1600-h/IMAG0020-760227.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTN9gorraggWRMGu6s85FB5cI8Xgytvr4wvU3q-ZfY0qHAnqHJCWHCz86YY2at1g_hlgEOuaUlzJmcyEwRw2Q6FY0y6a3r15dF-F8rmu1aBsQ893dxq_mjWAbr0Rdu5Id518P4Bw/s320/IMAG0020-760227.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328359449253358546" /></a></p><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT:Normal;'>Caroline and Gary gave me a lovely birthday present that was crying out to be blogged! :-D</SPAN>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-23127623066516158782009-04-22T19:33:00.004+01:002009-04-22T19:36:38.164+01:00Picasa and Picasa Web AlbumsI decided last night (whilst we performed miserably in the pub quiz) that I would post a few of my photographs to the web for all to admire.<br /><br />The easiest way to do this was to use Picasa (which I already use to organise my pictures) which allows easy upload to Picasa Web Albums. After a few clicks, the job was done.<br /><br />I've even added a couple of albums on the right hand side for you to enjoy if you can't be bothered bowsing all the way to <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/ric.charlton">http://picasaweb.google.com/ric.charlton</a>.Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-77161495719650251552009-04-12T18:44:00.001+01:002009-05-30T15:27:39.801+01:00Blakey had an accident!<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHXZ2ODt0nTo6H-iHjRZhAeR4NYnRJdfqc2JWNIqRNja2H0zhkgeI8A3oLu5EpJ7yFTUApcXZ478XUCJvWNmlrXew7aUg3QSWMsPiuLmG9TGB9XXH1tzeNeO9-SFjnW4LYVNTB2A/s1600-h/IMAG0016-757139.jpg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHXZ2ODt0nTo6H-iHjRZhAeR4NYnRJdfqc2JWNIqRNja2H0zhkgeI8A3oLu5EpJ7yFTUApcXZ478XUCJvWNmlrXew7aUg3QSWMsPiuLmG9TGB9XXH1tzeNeO9-SFjnW4LYVNTB2A/s320/IMAG0016-757139.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323863466687374274" /></a></p><SPAN style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-WEIGHT:Normal;'>Lol!</SPAN>Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15759015.post-30962517043640095132009-03-25T19:50:00.000+00:002009-03-27T19:56:54.161+00:00QuizzingWell the quiz team returned from their holidays last week and we resumed our greatness on Tuesday!<br /><br />The picture round was easier than usual for us - all Disney characters ;-)<br /><br />Anyways... we won! Not bad eh? 61 points! So a free round of drinks was ours.<br /><br />Now we just need to win the higher and lower game... it's up to about £150 now :-)Richttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13917753699952099793noreply@blogger.com0