Planto's Place

Apologies – this one’s a bit of a rant. Oh, and it’s about slightly more in-depth use of a GPS than simply punching in a destination on a TomTom. I’ve used Garmin software and GPS devices for what feels like about 10 years now. I used to be forced to use PC emulators on a […]

I bought a new book the other day (well, days – it came from alibris.co.uk) which caught my eye – The Cyclists Training Bible. I’d never seen it before, but it looked interesting and when it arrived was a considerably weightier tome than I was expecting. There’s some good stuff in there, which started me […]

Apparently there’s already 12 people signed up to come to the workshop myself and Ann Carrier (née McMeekin) are running at IA Summit in a few weeks. We’re both super excited and eagerly getting ready to spend a whole afternoon working with enthusiasts and sceptics to figure out if / how the original developers’ manifesto […]

Garmin‘s Connect website for uploading and browsing all the pulse, hardware and location data their devices collect when you’re running, cycling, walking, is down for maintenance right now. The visuals and messaging around a normally negative event is really quite nice for a company that doesn’t always excel at design and customer centricity.

Snowboarding is something I only discovered in the last few years. It started quite innocently – with a day spent falling on my arse on a sheet of ice next to the car park at Mount Baker. For some reason I was hooked. I came back to home and had some lessons in one of the […]

The best plans can easily lead to some scary outcomes if you let them

Bought some new wheels for one of the bikes yesterday. Nothing super-special, but it’s about time old faithful (which is now 5 years old I realised the other day) got some of its essentials replaced as they do appear to be wearing out. It’s been a long time since I went out for a proper […]