@MrChom Yer I’ve got OpenElec on older model, which still works well. Looking forward to building some new stuff with this one though.
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Birthday presents 2015
- Gyo by Junji Ito
- Simpsons socks
- jumper
- Raspberry Pi 2B.
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Bringing out the best in people
So I managed to complete the Birmingham half-marathon in 2 hours and 17 minutes. One of the things that has been imprinted on my memory is how the day seemed to bring out the best in all people.People all along the 13.1 mile route were handing out sweets, water, and shouts of encouragement directed at specific people – whether they were friends or not. Countless times I had people cheering me on from my name on my runners number.It makes all the difference.I especially found it great how even when running through areas of Birmingham that were less desirable – places where the people may normally be feared – had just the same encouragement and friendliness.
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Birmingham Half-marathon 2015 — 2 hours and 17 minutes
Great Birmingham half-marathon completed in 2 hours and 17 minutes.
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2 hours till I begin my first half marathon in Birmingham today. Never has 13 miles seemed so far.
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Four days until the big run
In four days time, I’ll be doing the Birmingham half marathon along with a mate from work.
The gravity of what I have said I’ll do didn’t really hit me until earlier today, when we were looking over the route map and elevation.
13.1 miles it is and I know I’m going to feel every step. I’m both nervous and excited in equal measure.
I’m now starting to wish I had prepared more. The longest run I’ve done — at a steady pace — has been about 8 miles or so and since paintballing last weekend has given me achy muscles, I’ve had no option but to rest up.
I’m quietly confident that the cheering of the crowds and general good feelings of all involved will help me — and indeed everybody else — to make it through the race.
I just hope I have prepared enough.
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Twitter autoplays videos too! Bloody hell. Why bother with a play icon over the video if you’re going to make the choice for me?
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Is there anybody else out there that finds the @netflixuk autoplaying in tv / film details screen annoying? I do.
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Bypassing Laravel’s CSRF Middleware on selected routes (from 5.1)
Laravel does a great job at protecting us from cross-site request forgeries – or C.S.R.F. for short.But sometimes you may not wish to have that layer present. Well with Laravel 5.1 you can very easily bypass this middleware, simply by populating an array in the following file:
app/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.phpWithin this class you can add a protected property — an array — called
$except, which will tell Laravel to use this middleware except for the ones you specify here.A complete example could be:
protected $except = [ 'ignore/this/url', 'this/one/too', 'and/this', ];So for those three URLs, the CSRF middleware would be skipped.
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100 Albums #2 – The Wall: Live in Berlin by Roger Waters (and various artists)
A couple of weeks ago I went to see the one-night-only showing of Roger Waters’ The Wall at my local cinema. That performance rekindled my love for that album – indeed Pink Floyd in general.
Yesterday I revisted an older performance of the album, which was given at the Berlin wall at the time when it was being torn down.
Very apt.
This performance of The Wall is unique, in that many of the songs are performed by guest artists. My personal favorites of these perfomances are Bryan Adam’s “Young Lust”, Paul Carrack’s “Hey You” and Van Morrison’s “Comfortably Numb”.
For any fans of The Wall, this album is a milestone performance and must be experienced.
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