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Butcombe Trail Ultra 50, 2019

Submitted by mcjim on Sun, 28/04/2019 - 09:46

I wan’t sure how I was feeling the morning of the race. Tired definitely. A busy week, pre-race nerves and a windy night didn’t allow for a good night’s sleep.

Up out of bed. Coffee. Only half my breakfast. Buffeted down the M5 to the race HQ. Parked, loo, registered. Bumped into Helen, nice to see a familiar face. Race briefing and then we were off in what seemed like no time at all.

The rain had more or less stopped. But the wind. The wind dominated the day. Hat, gloves, tee, long-sleeve and jacket. Had to keep moving to stop feeling frozen.

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First 10k!

Submitted by mcjim on Mon, 19/06/2017 - 20:35

Jen ran her first 10k and I made a film about it:

First 10k! from James Panton on Vimeo.

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Outdoorsy wind-down listens

Submitted by mcjim on Wed, 15/02/2017 - 09:45

Talk Ultra: https://overcast.fm/itunes497318073/talk-ultra
Deliberately long podcast. Love hearing all these people I’ve never heard of before doing ridiculous things and generally being so humble about it all.

Rough Guide: https://overcast.fm/itunes1196712697/the-rough-guide-to-everywhere
This is new, but so far has been good.

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The Joy of Rachmaninoff

Submitted by mcjim on Sun, 03/01/2016 - 21:31

Great documentary on the life of Rachmaninoff. Tom Service is an engaging presenter. Worth watching if you get the opportunity.
Only available until the end of January 2016, though it might reappear as these things sometimes do: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p039q3qd/the-joy-of-rachmaninoff

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Going back in Safari

Submitted by mcjim on Wed, 10/09/2014 - 16:17

I was looking up how to restore the backspace key functionality in Safari, when I noticed that you can use Command-[ instead.

I'll try to force myself to use that, instead..

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120727025535867

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console.log in Internet Explorer

Submitted by mcjim on Wed, 10/09/2014 - 15:52

This I did not know: console.log() breaks Internet Explorer; even if all instances of it are commented out!
https://degreesofzero.com/article/javascript-breaks-only-in-internet-exp...

HT http://twitter.com/galooph

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Ignoring local changes to a file in git

Submitted by mcjim on Wed, 10/09/2014 - 15:42

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1753070/git-ignore-files-only-locally

Basically, edit .git/config/exclude.

e.g.
# git ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude # Lines that start with '#' are comments. # For a project mostly in C, the following would be a good set of # exclude patterns (uncomment them if you want to use them): # *.[oa] # *~ sites/default/settings.php