I found a great little iPhone application at the weekend, an anemometer which works by measuring the sound the wind makes going into the microphone. I was a little sceptical about how accurate this can be but having a read around various forums seems to suggest it is amazingly accurate. The screenie below is from Wind Speed (Broken link http://www.sis.si/iphone/wind-speed/) which is the one I’m currently using but I’ve found another one called Wind Meter too.

I figure this could come in handy if I ever start to fly model gliders again, worth £1.19 of my money any day!

Finally got around to finishing it. The rubber which was included in the kit has since perished (I’ve had it on the shelf that long!). I’m going to order up some more from Mikes Free Flight Supplies, then I’ll be able to get out and fly it.

Just found out how to turn on vmware-tools clocking syncing from inside the guest, rather than editing the .vmx file on the host.

Once you have vmware-tools installed and configured try this:

/usr/sbin/vmware-guestd --cmd "vmx.set_option synctime 0 1"

To verify this has worked look for this line in the corresponding .vmx file:

tools.syncTime = "TRUE"

Whilst relaxing down here on the IOW, I’ve found (thanks to @yankcrime) what I think is, so far my favorite iPhone game. Its called Flight Control (Broken link http://www.firemint.com/flightcontrol/) from Firemint (Broken link ~~http://www.firemint.com/~~). According to their background (Broken link http://www.firemint.com/flightcontrol/background.html) info it started out as a Christmas Vacation coding exercise, well it was worth it. I’m utterly addicted, and how the hell the bloke in the video (Broken link http://www.firemint.com/flightcontrol/video.html) gets a high score of 96, I’ll never know. You can find it in the App Store (Broken link http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=306220440&mt=8)

Screenshot of Flight Control, the iPhone game

I’ve just needed to snapshot a virtual machine running under VMware Fusion on my Mac but I only had SSH access. I’ve discovered the vmrun utility which is hidden away in XXX. VMware have a PDF of how to use it here. Very handy!

% <strong>export PATH=/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/:$PATH<br /> % vmrun listSnapshots SpaceWalk.vmx</strong><br /> Total snapshots: 1<br /> Fresh 5.2 all updates<br /> % <strong>vmrun -T fusion snapshot SpaceWalk.vmx "SpaceWalk Installed"</strong><br /> % <strong>vmrun listSnapshots SpaceWalk.vmx</strong><br /> Total snapshots: 2<br /> Fresh 5.2 all updates<br /> SpaceWalk Installed<br /> %

Bravo!

I took Jenny to Ghent for a few days for her birthday, after visiting Brugge and Brussels last year it was another place we fancied seeing.

I’ve just had a bit of a Google for a ICS format calendar for this years F1 season and found this (Dead link http://www.colinchau.com/blog/2009/02/f1-2009-season-timetable-for-google-calendar one already made and shared.

We have a clear winner so far! This thing flies amazingly well. Will happily fly 8 to 9 meters across the office. Amazing!

The consensus is that this is the best flyer so far. Glides very nicely, with a little twist to the back it can be made to fly a nice gentle circuit.