Bluetooth Foot Pedal for Onsong – an alternative to Airturn ?

anthony 9th January 2018 4 Comments
Project History!   The intention of this post is to serve as an aide-memoire for a little project I've been working on recently. From time to time, I lead worship at my church, and play acoustic guitar.  For song lyrics / chord charts I use a popular app on IOS called Onsong. A while ago I found an old guitar foot switch unit that started life belonging to a Marshall amp.  I took most of...

8 more sleeps!

anthony 15th April 2016 0 Comments
The lovely London Marathon page on Facebook today popped up to say there are 9 days to go!!! The most fantastic way to start this update is to be able to say I have reached my Fundraising target and at the time of posting it stands at - £ 2127.65 I am truly humbled and blessed by the generosity that people have shown in supporting WaterAid in helping me reach this target. Of course, now the...

Counting down…as the miles go up!!

anthony 10th February 2016 0 Comments
Having been a month since my last post, I figured it's about time for a quick update. I took part in the Cancer Research 'Winter Run' on the 31st January.  It's a popular 10k race starting in Trafalgar Square, and finishing along Whitehall. It was the first race of it's size that I've taken part in, with around 15,000 people taking part. I really enjoyed it, especially as I finished in 53:32...

100 Days to Go – And Counting!

anthony 15th January 2016 0 Comments
Eek!! So it seems I've hit the big 100 day countdown, and now it's time to get serious! I started my formal training plan at the beginning of the year, but now its crunch time! So far, it seems to be going really well - running 3 - 4 times a week, with a longer run most Sundays! I've forcefully become acclimatised to arctic temperatures to run in - all included in the fun of being a crazy...

Running for WaterAid

anthony 18th November 2015 0 Comments
I realised it would probably be helpful to share some of the background to why I am running the Marathon, who I will be running for and why. Why am I doing this ? I had the opportunity to go to Rwanda in 2005 and I have very clear memories from that trip of seeing people walking huge distances, carrying heavy water containers - on a daily basis.  Everyone appeared to have to go through this -...

Marathon Training plan choices?

anthony 16th October 2015 0 Comments
I know there is a long way to go before April, but I figured I would start looking at choices for Training plans....and I'm glad I looked now. There are so many choices!  In fact, it's quite bewildering how many variations there are.  Some focus on time-based runs, some on mileage, while others different again. So far for other training , I have been using the plan feature of the Asics website...

Ballot results are in!

anthony 2nd October 2015 0 Comments
This week the ballot results for entry into the Virgin London Marathon 2016 are being sent out. I have seen a lot of posts on Facebook from friends receiving the pack through the post, containing the magazine indicating whether the ballot entry was successful or not.   Well, yesterday, Royal Mail visited my letterbox and popped my pack through.   It too was a Sorry! version of the magazine...

SSL Certificates from StartSSL for WebVPN on Cisco IOS

anthony 26th March 2014 2 Comments
This document is intended to walk-through the steps I took to successfully implement a free SSL certificate for use with WebVPN on a Cisco IOS Router. I had tried a couple of times to use StartSSL certificates but fell at different hurdles.   However, this time I crossed the line. The credit for this success goes 100% to a member on the StartSSL forum, dlambert - he documented his steps and I...