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  • Virtusa Sailing Weekend

    Friday 15 th June :- We have chartered a yacht “ Jasper ” a Dufour 36’ from Hamble Point Yacht Charters. My Crew arrived, Lisa, Andrew, Shanaka, Priya, Fabian, Thetsue and Jamie. Once everyone was ready we slip the mooring from Hamble...
    06-20-2007, 12:19 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
  • Sailing time again

    I took my first week’s course in the UK in the middle of May; weather was great boat full of Comp crew and our first day out was a F7. Not the best weather to teach comp crew but it was a great sail. The following day I managed to teach the rest...
    06-10-2007, 7:51 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
  • Bonfire Weekend

    Well with everyone getting set to spend the weekend watching fireworks and being huddled around a nice warm fire, I have charter a yacht and plan take my family for a trip around the solent... My crew, Julie [my mum], Jamie and Ed [my brother] We picked...
    11-10-2006, 2:18 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
  • Mariage de M. et de Mme Chatards

    My cousin Chiara and Xavier were getting married. So we headed over to Limoges (France). The weather when we left the UK was nice, when we arrived in France it was pouring down with rain, and they think it always rains in the UK... The evening the women...
    09-20-2006, 2:29 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
  • The Ionian

    It was time for an annual summer holiday. This year Jamie and I were going to share it with my brother and his partner, Ed and Sarah. We booked a bareboat charter with nautilus from Lefkas. We were going to spend the week island hoping. Day 1 (Sunday)...
    09-14-2006, 4:00 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
  • The past Year!

    Well it’s been a very long time since my last post, I thought I’d write a little update of what been happening with me since my last post. As always I’ve been keeping up with the holidays, we went to Vail, Colorado skiing at New Year,...
    08-26-2006, 3:21 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
  • What makes a good framework?

    One of the things that I commonly see in my job as a development consultant is customers that spend a great deal of time and effort on building frameworks for their development projects. Martin 1 and I were chatting about this the other day and based...
    02-21-2006, 5:52 by james to James Musson's blog
  • MSBuild task for .NET assembly versioning (part 1)

    I have been looking at the build process for Visual Studio 2005 projects recently and this obviously includes playing with MSBuild. Firstly it's great to finally have a robust, extensible build tool that doesn't have to rely on Visual Studio but I'll...
    02-07-2006, 1:19 by james to James Musson's blog
  • Blog guilt

    Oh dear - this blog is showing serious signs of neglect. Not only is there a lack of content recently, I am also overrun with feedback-weed. Kind of reminds me of the 'red-weed' in War of the Worlds (which we watched recently, pretty dire by the way)....
    02-07-2006, 1:16 by james to James Musson's blog
  • Cruising Instructor

    Well as you can see it's been some time since my last post. I have been fairly busy over the last few months. Since completing my Yachtmaster I have been away sailing in Turkey for a week with friends, which was awesome . I also took the plunge and decided...
    10-28-2005, 0:58 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
  • Yachtmaster

    Well it's been sometime since my last post, but I thought I would update everyone with my latest achievement. A couple of weeks ago I took my Yachtmaster and to my surprise I passed... The preparatory course took place over 12 days. The five of us: Lucy,...
    07-04-2005, 14:26 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
  • Videogame character

    I am a Thrust-ship . I am small and tricky - where you think I am, I probably am not. I can work very fast, but I tend to go about things in a round about way, which often leaves me effectively standing still. I hate rocks. Bloody rocks. What Video Game...
    05-31-2005, 5:24 by james to James Musson's blog
  • Unusual motorcycle

    Driving on a dual carriageway somewhere around Cambridge the other day I am sure that something very like this came past me on a low loader travelling in the opposite direction....
    05-19-2005, 6:55 by james to James Musson's blog
  • Forza motorsport

    I am up in one of our offices in Cambridge on a workshop a the moment. In the main foyer, there is a pod demonstrating a new Xbox game, Forza motorsport . It seems to be a really good game (not that I am any kind of expert you understand) but what makes...
    05-17-2005, 8:13 by james to James Musson's blog
  • Surf Camp

    9th – 13th April - Surf Camp We were up very early to catch the bus for our week ahead. We had booked onto a surf safari which was going to teach us to surf as we headed down the east coast from Byron Bay to Sydney. There were 11 of us on the course...
    05-10-2005, 8:14 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
  • Noosa

    5th April - Noosa We said goodbye to David and Huw and caught a bus heading for Noosa, Rachel was staying with family but was going to meet us in Noosa in a couple of days. We arrived in Noosa and booked ourselves into the YHA which was in the nicer side...
    05-10-2005, 7:31 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
  • Fraser Island

    30th March - Rockhampton to Rollstone After picking up our hire car in Rockhampton we met up with Huw and set off on our road trip to Hervey Bay. Our first stop was to be Carnarvon Gorge which was supposed to be nice. Unfortunately the drive took far...
    04-26-2005, 18:22 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
  • Easter on the farm in Myella

    Day one We were collected from our hostel at 06:30 and then had an hour and a half drive of about 120km west from Rockhampton to the farm. We arrived just in time for breakfast and being Easter the place was buzzing. Straight away we were introduced to...
    04-07-2005, 0:46 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
  • Airlie Beach

    Airlie Beach Well part two may have finished but my adventures continue. This week Rachel, Lucy and myself headed north to Airlie Beach. We managed to get some volunteer places as crew on Maxi Yachts for Soxsail. We all flew straight up from Sydney to...
    03-27-2005, 2:34 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
  • Windows Server 2003 - COM+ 1.5

    COM+ 1.5 forms an integral part of Windows Server 2003 and has been much improved over the version that shipped with Windows 2000 Server. Features designed to increase the abilities (scalability, availability and manageability) of COM+ applications have...
    03-24-2005, 3:42 by james to James Musson's blog
  • Windows Server 2003 - Security

    As part of its commitment to reliability security and dependable computing, Microsoft has reviewed every line of code underlying its Windows Server family as part of its enhanced effort to identify possible fail points and exploitable weaknesses. Increased...
    03-24-2005, 3:12 by james to James Musson's blog
  • Windows Server 2003 - IIS 6.0

    IIS 6.0 is a ground up rewrite of the previous incarnation of IIS, version 5.0. IIS has been redesigned to improve aspects of all the main feature areas: reliability, availability, manageability, scalability and performance. Fault-tolerant process architecture...
    03-24-2005, 2:56 by james to James Musson's blog
  • Windows Server 2003 - Core enhancements

    In the development for Windows Server 2003, much work was done to improve the scalability of the kernel (the core set of functionality that the entire operating system relies on). Detailed analysis, with both software and hardware tools on systems with...
    03-24-2005, 2:47 by james to James Musson's blog
  • Reasons to migrate to Windows Server 2003

    I realise that this is a bit late for many people, but I have been helping one of my customers with a justification to move to Windows Server 2003 from Windows 2000 Server. It is specifically targeted at the main application that they develop which is...
    03-24-2005, 2:37 by james to James Musson's blog
  • Nine Day offshore

    Final chapter of Flying Fish Australia stage. For our nine days offshore we were split into three boats: Boat Crew Instructor Panacea James, Daniel, Jim, Jess, David and me Roger Let Loose Rachel, Fiona, Lucy, Robin and Guy Chris First Fish Sally, Huw,...
    03-16-2005, 22:42 by karen to Karen Robinson's blog
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