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Garmin Oregon 450

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Pete

There were a number of improvements from the CSx though these invariably were not well executed, so there was always a “but”. What I liked. The time to establish a fix (lock on to satellites) was normally a minute or … Continue reading →

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Farewell Garmin GPSMAP 60CSx

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Pete

Back in July, after a day out walking in the Wye Valley I had got home, dumped my gear and soaked in a nice hot bath. I thought about transferring my route from the GPSr and my photos to the … Continue reading →

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Moving ISP (AOL to Sky)

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Pete

I live in a remote location with a basic telephone exchange which is nearly three miles from my house. My first ISP (Euronet) sadly went bust in 2006 and there were no LLUs in my exchange, so I had a … Continue reading →

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Garmin BaseCamp… Am I missing something?

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Pete

I’ve been using Garmin’s Mapsource application as my main means of managing tracks from my GPSr. It’s not perfect (the mapping window is annoyingly small due to OS license restrictions), but it is intuitive and simple to use. A couple … Continue reading →

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Walking with the Welsh language

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Pete

When I started walking in Wales I felt very daunted by the Welsh names I came across everywhere. It spoiled the experience when I couldn’t pronounce the names of the places I’d been. “So where’ve you been today then?”, my … Continue reading →

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WordPress

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Pete

Today I installed WordPress – the guts behind this page. I guess I have already developed  my own WordPress for most of my other pages, as they are rendered from a database. If I could get my OS maps and … Continue reading →

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Web host renewal at eHostPros

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Pete

My web hosting contract was up for renewal, so with a paltry 200MB of disk space I started to look around at other options. In the past eHostPros has been the only host that could provide the long list of … Continue reading →

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