The Cat's Nostril

Formatting a disk larger than 32gb to FAT32

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:51:18 +0100

Formatting a disk larger than 32gb to FAT32:

This little app just saved my external HDD. I decided to reformat it, and towards the end of the format in DOS of Windows 7 it said the disk was too big for FAT32.

This great application allows you to format a large drive as FAT32.

Samsung LE40F86D/XEU switching on an off by itself.

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:20:33 +0100

We’ve had this TV for just over 3 years and last week it started turning on / off by itself.

Turns out that this is a known problem and happens because the capacitors on the power supply have blown. Samsung are aware of this issue and arranged for our TV to be fixed for free.

The service agent replaced the old capacitors with some new, higher rated ones.

Steve’s Blog · Say No to Segoe (and ClearType) on Vista and Win7

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 12:18:05 +0100

Steve’s Blog · Say No to Segoe (and ClearType) on Vista and Win7

Sky Plus HD. Upgrades and information

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:52:15 +0000

Sky Plus HD. Upgrades and information:

Just a reminder about my Sky TV pages, lots of useful info about all aspects of Sky.

TheCatsNostril now on Twitter!

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:02:59 +0000

Taking my nonsense to the greater web!

http://twitter.com/thecatsnostril#

@thecatsnostril

The Pinnacle Climbing Centre - Northampton

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:47:37 +0100

The Pinnacle Climbing Centre - Northampton:

Its what I have been waiting for - a climbing wall in Northampton!

Body Shop at Home forum

Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:37:53 +0000

Body Shop at Home forum

Buy Wii Fit and Balance Board and Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip online at JohnLewis.com

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:07:09 +0000

Buy Wii Fit and Balance Board and Shaun White Snowboarding: Road Trip online at JohnLewis.com:

Just ordered this - am sooo excited!!

This is the exact bundle I was after, JL had no stock yesterday or earlier this morning and a chance visit to the site showed they now had stock!

Yaaay!

Mazda MPS forum

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:07:00 +0000

Mazda MPS forum

New DAB Radio forum

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:06:32 +0000

New DAB Radio forum

Back to running

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:50:00 +0000

I’ve not written about running for quite some time, and shamefully didn’t run for the whole of September - but it was too hot, that’s my excuse anyway.

Currently I am enjoying my renewed enthusiasm for running and have decided to take an alternative approach to setting goals. I’m going back to the ‘old days’ of running for time, rather than distance.

My target was 45mins, which I have already done 3 lots of, so next target is three lots of 48 minutes.

I still keep thinking back to the days of run 3 minutes, walk 2… :-)

Long Run

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:15:23 +0100

I’ve been doing odd 5k runs for a while now, my next goal is to be able to do 10k. To help me get there I am following a 4 week plan, generated through Smart Coach.

Tonight was ‘long run’ night with the suggested distance of 6 miles (erm isn’t that 10k), at double my usual distance I had my doubts.

Still, I tried my hardest and eventually conked out at 4.3 miles, which isn’t too bad a suppose. The warm up/down walk was another 1.4 miles, so in total thats not far off 6 miles…

Surprise after a break

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:03:12 +0100

I’ve not been running for over 2 weeks due to feeling crappy and having various leg-pains. Good news is that I managed to get out last night, but worried that I would be fairly useless.

Amazingly it was one of the easiest runs I have ever done and I even managed a new PB of 40:16 for a 5k run.

4 miles

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:22:54 +0100

My first 4 miler tonight, in an attempt to be ready for the 5m race on the 3rd Aug.

The first 2 miles felt awful and as I approached mile 3 I felt “warmed up”, after mile 3 things just seemed to get difficult and the leaden legs feeling started.

I did complete the 4 miles, in 57:23, a disappointing 14 minute/mile speed.

Extra half a mile

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:39:00 +0100

Since starting my new job at the beginning of July I’ve not had a lot of time to go out and run. Last Weds was the first time I’d been out this month and did a poor 5k in 44+ minutes.

Last night I managed to get out again, but after considering the race opted to do an extra mile, so I did 3.66 miles in 48:20. Not brilliant by any standard but it’s a step (or several) in the right direction. Shame about all the pains I have this morning… :-(

Maybe a race?

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:20:53 +0100

I’m considering entering a race, just to see what it’s like. The nearest one to me is the Wellingborough 5m, at the moment I am only running 3.1 miles, so not sure how I would get on.

About the race - http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/events/viewevent.asp?sp=&v=2&EN=42266

http://www.wdac.org.uk/Wellingborough%205.htm

Oh and I set a new PB of 41:21 for the 5k a couple of weeks ago.

New PB for 5k

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:50:19 +0100

Did 5k in 42:15 last night, a slight improvement but I would like to be doing it in under 40 mins.

No more run/walk?

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:35:12 +0100

5k was sooo close tonight. I decided to ditch the run/walk and just go for it.

I did well until the penultamate hill, when my HR went too high and I couldn’t get it to go down, even by running really slowly, felt rather weird and had to stop - grrr!

Anyway I did manage to run for 30 mins continuously and covered 2.37 miles, so I’m pretty chuffed with that as my last run was 3 lots of 11 min segments.

Getting back into climbing, which I am enjoying immensely, the...

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:42:39 +0100

Getting back into climbing, which I am enjoying immensely, the running definitely has helped as I don’t get tired on routes and only have to stop once my grip goes.

11 mins

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:36:15 +0100

A bit time pressured today so opted to do my run at 6am *choke*.

Was really pleased to manage 3 x 11mins.