In January 2009 Leanne and I made our way to the South Pacific. Our first stop was just over a week in Chuuk where we were diving the wrecks of Truk Lagoon. This is where the Americans sank about 50 Japanese ships during World War II. Most of these ships are at safe sport diving depths, and now they have become a fascinating tourist attraction for divers from all over the world. The best feature of these wrecks is that somehow they still have most of the artifacts that sank with them. This includes tanks, tools, guns, ammunition, ceramics, bottles and just about anything else you could imagine people needing on a ship. Finding all of these items on the ships gives a real feel of what it might have been like to be on them, and sometimes the horror of the attack that caused them to sink.
In January 2009 Leanne and I headed to the South Pacific for a bit of a diving holiday. After just over a week diving the wrecks of Truk Lagoon we moved on to Palau, where we were able to see all sorts of big life: turtles, sharks, mantas and napoleon wrasse.
On the 12th April 2008, my old school chum Thusha and his girlfriend Katherine got themselves married at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. I didn’t manage to get any photos of the ceremony, but there are a few snaps taken during the ceilidh in the evening that seem to have come out reasonably well.
When at work, I’m generally in the worlds of Windows and Solaris. But these days I’m doing my home development work on a MacBook Pro. But I’m keen to make sure that I can do everything that I do at work so that I can experiment in my own time. So here’s a list of the software I use to develop on the Mac and where to get it.
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I mentioned my use of the WebLogic Scripting Tool a little while back. I have noticed since then that a number of folks visiting this site are looking for example scripts. I have obviously written a number myself and I promise I’ll try to get around to posting them here. However until I get myself in gear, I thought I would point you at some useful examples that are already out there. I’ll expand this post as I find more…
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Photos from our holiday in Sharm El Sheikh, November 2007.
Since I’m now playing around on a MacBook Pro I thought I’d see whether it was possible to get BEA WebLogic running on it. As it turns out it’s quite simple. These instructions seem to apply to anything from 9.0 upwards, but there’s a link to instructions for 8.1 below.
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Below the jump park, there’s a fun green run down into the village. It’s a long off-road section through the woods followed by lots of hairpin bends on a stretch of road.
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To get to the jump park involves riding down from the top lift on a series of berms. It’s a fun little ride down, although Jon did manage to come a cropper on it. You may notice me pause on the track before dropping down into a berm. Apparently that’s where Jon got himself a concussion!
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The second of the helmet cam movies is mostly a view of my hands working the paddle as I try to follow the orders of our river guide Manu.
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