Motoitaliano Extravaganza Day
Had a brilliant time down at Sammy Miller's museum in the New Forest. Saw a huge array of Italian bikes there, and loads more in the museum.
MotoItalia Ducati
Certainly worth a visit if you are down in the area!, they seem to have a lot of different events going on down there.
I took my Ducati and was able to park it in the Italian bikes only section hehe so people could view it. I particularly liked the little bikes, the Maserati and the Itom.
Remove svn folders from a directory
If you decide you want to remove the subversion control hidden folders from a directory, you can run the following: -
find . -type f -name "*.svn" -exec rm ‘{}’ \; -print
How to copy symbolic links
Sometimes you just want to copy one or more symbolic links into a new directory in Linux, the command is simple but there seem to be lots of forums with some crazy posts on the sibject, so I thought I would just put the command in a blog post: -
cp -P /dir/symlink /dir/
Main thing is just to leave the trailing slash of the symlink as it's obviously not a directory.
Ducati 748
I have ordered my first ever Ducati today, a 748 Biposto I am really excited and also really quite nervous about all the costs! I hope it will be a brilliant buy. The really great thing is, it's one of the things I have always wanted, one of the boyhood dreams I can tick off.
My Ducati 748
I've always loved them and have tried to skirt around spending out the money on getting one, by compensating for it with my other bikes but now I really hope I have got my dream bike.
Really looking forward to enjoying a summer on the bike. I will unfortunately have to sell my lovely NC30, so if anyone reading has seen her in previous pictures on the site and wants to make me an offer please just leave a comment on this posting.
Just been reading a page written by a guy who went over and visited the factory back when the 748's were being produced so I thought I would put a link to it here 
Ducati 748 being built
It seems that back then they were not making all that many and that guy ordered his and was still waiting 3 or 4 months later and finally had to give up on getting it, harsh.
As well as a rather more geeky but interesting run down of Ducati engineering
Google’s Rubbish new home page
Picky but, doesn't Google's home page look like crap? It is a huge ugly pixelated image, in order to change it you need to login which means needing a dirty google account yuck.
I am going to be using bing, I wonder how many people will do the same today, why not have a try an alternative search engine week..
Hot Server
Well the site has been down a couple of days to give the old server a rest, the hot weather got all the disks roasting over 50 degrees C so I thought I better shut her down before she burns the house down..
In other news I was glad to see that Google are potentially going to be prosecuted in up to 30 countries for their invasion of privacy and what appears to be intentional theft of personal information. You can always look through their audit here it seems to have been carried out by a third party security / consulting / technical services firm.
Strange unfair world, also what's the deal with yet more sanctions against Iran?? Didn't they do everything they needed to and in addition offer to send their Uranium to Turkey for processing? Sanctions purely for the good of the US and Israel?
Also what's the deal with Israel attacking ships in international waters and getting away with it, same deal for Iran? What's the UNs view on keeping another country in a state of poverty and misery through the use of force? I guess it doesn't apply to the select few, somehow it reminds me of animal farm.
Ian’s Ramblings Mobile
I thought I would try out something I got shown today at work, see how it works for my little site.
OK so if you have a barcode scanner on your phone, for example on my Nokia it's inside the tools folder, you can start it up and scan the following image. This should then allow you to subscribe to my RSS feed, basically read my postings on the move!
There's more info on these QR codes at: -
http://code.google.com/apis/chart/docs/gallery/qr_codes.html
Images Search
I found a rather nice site for searching for images, of all kinds, over 8 million of them, news sport and entertainment. Hehe ok so it may have been made by me, but thought I would include it on the blog incase anyone fancied a gander.
It uses sphinx and replicated MySQL and a range of caching techniques, hopefully it makes it quite nippy.
Users can also subscribe to RSS feeds of either their own searches or via the preset latest categories.
Press Association Images
The RSS feeds can be accessed at the following URLS: -
Accidents and Breakdowns
Not sure if it's just me being picky, but when a car / bike / lorry here in the UK breaks down or has a tiny minor bump do they really need to leave it right in the middle of the road and surround it with police cars and a fire engine??
Coming home tonight I noticed two cars had bumped into each other with just enough force to make a 4 inch dent in the bumpers and crack their lights, a fire engine had parked behind them and blocked a whole lane.
The clowns in the Police and Fire service really really need to get to grips with the idea that if they block a road given how congested roads are these days it creates massive queues and potentially endangers lives, with ambulances and other emergency vehicles going to proper incidents being trapped.
If anyone else has noticed this build up of laziness just drop me a comment in here.
Politics
What is going on in this country? Why now are the two minority parties trying to cobble together some kind of 'joke like' frail government to avoid facing up to the fact they lost the election.
Couldn't we have another general election? Given the current mess I can't help but feel the electorate would really get behind one party this time.
Even if proportional representation had been the method of the day, the Liberals would still have lost, why do they have any say in anything? less than 3 in ten people voted for them.
It's a horrendous mess, I am not even comfortable with the Liberals pushing their policies to the forefront in coalition with the Conservatives, let alone Labour..
If Labour had any sense at all they would step away from this mess and have nothing to do with the Liberals. This will be a time of very unpopular cuts, and would be even more unpopular if the Scottish and Welsh manage to slither their way out of them by holding Labour to ransom.
I think Labour put themselves in a much stronger position for the future of they conceded defeat to the Conservatives and rejected any coalition with the Liberals.
I think the Conservatives have made a very good offer in only conceding a referendum on voting reform, because lets face it, there won't be any change given the tiny numbers of Liberal votes.
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