Some of my walks from 2010

I've tried to record unique routes that me and the dog have taken throughout the year.

Still more ground to cover in 2011

Pear Tree Branch (frosty)

Pear Tree Branch (frosty)
Originally uploaded by mat_g

the whole orchard was covered in frost this morning
chilly but wonderful to look at

Autumn Pears

Autumn Pears
Originally uploaded by mat_g

magnificent autumn colours this year

Dog Walk Sun 8th August 2010

brilliant walk with the dog (new htc android phone tracks gps a treat)

just over 8 miles - in just under two hours.


View Dog Walk (marshes) in a larger map

back in the saddle - two weeks on holiday and not much exercise certainly shows.

10 Miles (ish), mix of off-road and road work,


View Bike Ride 7 8 2010 in a larger map

Windows Terminal Server reminder

Something I always seem to forget:

Terminal server session administration.

get server sessions
query session /server:

disconnect session
tsdiscon sessionid

kill all processes under a session
tskill /server: /ID:sessionid

reset session on server
reset session sessionname || or || sessionid /server:

Windows Local Admin Maintenance

local admin group maintenance:

# if your user name is whatever\test

$Server = ""

Foreach($strComputer in $Server)
{
$domain = "blah"
$username = "Fbloke"
$break = "=============="

$computer = [ADSI]("WinNT://" + $strComputer + ",computer")
$computer.name

$Group = $computer.psbase.children.find("administrators")
$Group.name

# This will list what’s currently in Administrator Group so you can verify the result

function ListAdministrators

{$members= $Group.psbase.invoke("Members") | %{$_.GetType().InvokeMember("Name", 'GetProperty', $null, $_, $null)}
$members}
$strComputer
ListAdministrators
$break

# Even though we are adding the AD account but we add it to local computer and so we will need to use WinNT: provider

$Group.Add("WinNT://" + $domain + "/" + $username)

ListAdministrators
$break

# then the option to remove if needed
#$Group.Remove("WinNT://" + $domain + "/" + $username)

#ListAdministrators
}

taking home the spoils

delivery
Originally uploaded by mat_g

corn was cut behind the house last night, guns, dust, noise and my mad dog

Ride Out Sat 26th June

Jamie, Alan and Tim (oh and me), on a jaunt through Kent.

KTM 525 EXC

KTM 525 EXC
Originally uploaded by mat_g

my new mid life crisis, makes me grin like a fool

wet and windy....

Todays walk, home, Lower Higham, Thames then home. Drizzle, mud, wind and cows...., Easter Sunday so it was lovely and quiet, no ships, no other walkers or dogs.

bike ride 25th March

A day off work, so took the chance to get out and do some miles in the morning. Raining again so the off road bits and some of the smaller lanes were a touch muddy. Still can't seem to get over 17km/h average speed.....

bike ride 20th March

Another circuit to try to get me fit... just over 20kms this time in just over an hour. South Westerly wind, miserable rain, and I extended this with some woodland single track (v muddy), some gravel off-road and the usual country lanes. A good ride.

some things are just simple and work....
(from the output of dir /s /ad /b - feed it through the script below)

open (IN,$ARGV[0]) || die "Can't open $file! $! \n";

while ()
{
$line0 = $_;
chop $line0;

print "cd \"$line0\"\n";
print "forfiles \/D -31\/12\/2007 \/C \"cmd \/c if \@isdir\=\=FALSE 7z a -mx7 \@fname.zip \@fname.\@ext\"\n";
print "forfiles \/D -31\/12\/2007 \/C \"cmd \/c if \@isdir\=\=FALSE del \@fname.\@ext\"\n";
print "::\n";
}
close (IN);

Bike Ride 13th March

Another route in my attempts to get fitter, from home via Higham, Shorne, Gravesend, then along the canal to Higham and home, good run would extend it when I can get some padding on my arse.

Dog Walk 13 March 2010

Saturday morning walk, orchards, wood, and muddy fields, cloudy and grey, but pleasant.
Extended the normal route across Lodge Hill and walked behind Spendiff.

Walk on the Marsh via Egypt bay

Cold, clear and crisp, walk from decoy farm in High Halstow, via Egypt bay, to Cliffe and then home. Footpath flooded had to strip down and wade through the ditch, while carrying the dog who knew better than me! Brilliant time to walk the marshes as most of the sheep are now close to home for lambing.

Bike Ride 6th March

easterly wind, so I rode the route in the reverse direction, not very pleasant in some places (windmill hill towards Hoo.... brrrr).
slight increase in average speed, let's see if I can keep this up

Dog Walk 6th march 2010

chilly start to the day, but crisp and clear. Nice walk to lodge hill, and through the orchards.

Bike Ride

Bike ride route one, now that we're getting better weather, I've decided to record the rides and walks I do.

This one is a standard circular local route. Nice mix of road/off-road, small hills and quiet country lanes.