I’ve finally got round to uploading some pics I took while building the Scorcher, body is not painted yet. I’ll hopefully find the time to do that before long!

More details over on the Sand Scorcher page here.

Its taken me nearly 5 months to make this, but I finally got round to it!

A photo of Edward each day for his first year..

I finally received the part I broke on my Blade heli, I couldnt find a model shop which kept it in stock so I had to wait for it to come from a supplier 🙁

I put it in yesterday and had a few quick flights, all seems well again, which is good news. Jenny took a little video of it flying, which is below. Keeping something so small and fast moving in focus and in the viewfinder is non trivial!

We had a gorgeous sunset here last night, we dont have much of a view from where we live, but I spotted this quite interesting roofline out of our bedroom window.

[]({{ “/uploads/2011/05/blade_120_sr.jpeg” | prepend: site.baseurl }})Having recently seen one of these flying I thought I’d try one for myself. Good fun, until you break it 🙁 Spare bits en-route however! More info here.

I quite often used to find myself wanting to print from my iPad, so when Apple announced AirPrint I thought things were looking good. According to the press release you would need either a HP printer or you could print to a shared printer on an existing mac. Sorted, I’ve got the latter of those, things were looking rosy.

Things took a turn for the worse when I read that they had pulled support for printing via shared printers and were only going to allow AirPrint to certain (at the moment only HP) printers.  I wanted the feature, but not enough to replace my trusty Lexmark (Broken link ~~http://www.lexmark.co.uk/lexmark/product/home/369/0,6970,252735_796629346_1190270321_en,00.html?tabId=1~~).

Luckily there are people like this guy on the internet who took the time to figure out how it works and have since published a nice simple guide about how to setup a Linux box as a AirPrint server. Mainly thanks to Cups and some Avahi magic.

Sorted! And I’ve used it sufficiently to think spending an hour or so setting it up was worth while.

I love instagram on my phone, and I use Dropbox everywhere. And now, thanks to some cool folks you can now have all your instagram photos saved to your dropbox as soon as you take them.

This was taken in the carpark under work one morning. Acton, London.

After what felt like an eternity VMware vCenter server produced the follow error, how nice of it to give me just part of the path to the logfile. After searching the drive for the log I discovered didnt even exist.

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Whilst having a bit of a tidy of my office I found a large sheet of black card, so I thought I’d have a bit of a play with photographing some of the random little toys I have sitting about the place.

I use a Mac as my desktop and I’ve never successfully gotten the VMware Server console thing in the web interface to work. Which means if I need console access to a VM I have to boot a copy of windows somewhere and use IE in that.  This little trick gets me out of having to to that.

Add the following lines to the VMX config file for each VM you want access to, then you can just connect in with any VNC client and get the console. Use the host/ip address of the vmware server itself when you connect. I halted each of my VMs while editing that file because I wan’t to make sure VMware wasn’t going to write to the file as well.

RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled = "TRUE"
RemoteDisplay.vnc.password = "password"
RemoteDisplay.vnc.port = "port"

If you want more than one VM to use VNC you have to use different port numbers.