I can’t recommend it enough. Below are a few pics of yours truly on race day. For anyone looking for a good way to get photos online while using linux - Try Google Picasa.
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| From Ironman Australia 2009 |
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| From Ironman Australia 2009 |
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| From Ironman Australia 2009 |
The Six Foot Track Marathon was on March 14, 2009. Pics just came in and I finally found a feasible way to upload the pics on Ubuntu. Flickr and Webshots weren’t being friendly with Firefox or Opera, however, a switch to Picasa showed that Google is able to jive with the nix environment. If this continues to be the case, I might migrate from Webshots to Picasa. Another option is to host my own picture service like I did for the Europe pictures. Additionally, I am not going to append Surry Hills, NSW, Australia to the end of blog posts from now on. I will append location to the end of posts when the location or subject of the post differs from my normal location.
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Also, uploaded the pics to Webshots for completeness. Had to use Opera and it took about 1000% longer than Picasa.
It’s been 7 months since I got back on the bike. Before leaving, I sold both of my race bikes and ran over my last remaining bike, a mountain bike, on accident. On September 15, 2008, I got back on the bike and since then have travelled 3000 miles.
So what?
I guess it is not that big of a deal. But here are some of the things I have recognized as being different in my life after choosing a bicycle as my main form of transportation.
Lastly, today is my birthday. Somehow I made it to 26 years old. Never saw this one coming, but im still kicking. Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes. Truly appreciate it.
Some people have found my site searching for Ironman Australia 2009 results. Here is a link to the results.
http://ironman.com/events/ironman/australia/?show=tracker&rid=185&year=2009
The last name and first name search fields were transposed when I tried the athlete search.
While trying to keep the site as fresh as possible, I have let some sections go by the wayside. Here is a current status on whereisdarran.com.
Home: Typically updated weekly
About: Fairly static, up-to-date
Location: Out of date – hasn’t been updated for about 8 months – Need to update google map showing transition to Australia
Travel Log: Up to date on google documents – WordPress crapped out on that page and I haven’t been able to fix it – I have been updating it independently and will merge both pages when I can fix Travel Log in wordpress
Music: Had high hopes – just shows my bad musical tastes – not updated in a couple of months
Gear: About 6 months out of date
Live: Bandwidth restrictions have made this part of the site unfeasible
Training: Up-to-Date on Google documents – need to re-enable google doc integration
Race: About 4 months out of date on site – have updated spreadsheet on hard drive
There it is.
