Ross Goodman

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  • Twitter Local – Depressing

    Twitter Local

    As you know I love Twitter. OK there are some things i find annoying, the lack of groups is one.

    The main thing is the lack of uptake amoungst my “real” friends and colleagues. OK, this is in part due to the short sightedness of most customer sites using WebSense or proxy rules to block it. I have just been further depressed by Twitter Local a great site that shows you the geographocal location of tweets. I have seen similar sites on the macro scale, for example: TwitterVision gives you a world map with tweets appearing all over it.

    Twitter Local works at the other end of the scale, you give it a location and a radius and it shows you “local” tweets. So, why am I depressed: I can only find two other twitterers within 5 miles of me!

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  • XI 3.0 New Features – A Video !

    Business Objects

    My first attempt at a video hosted on YouTube:

    This shows you how you can highlight the data that has changed in a report http://www.montauk-monster.com/pharmacy between refreshes, in much the same way as you can on a dashboard.

  • Scottish MND Fun Run 2008

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    Sarah and I managed to finish the 2008 Scottish Motor Neuron Disease Association (SMNDA) Fun Run 10k (6 mile) route in a respectable 1 hour 20 minutes.

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  • Photography In Glasgow

    Emma and Sarah were at the Girls Aloud concert at the SECC on Thursday night.

    Rather than go home then come back again to collect them I decided to wander around with my camera.

    I’m noticing a theme emerging with my photos:

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    Click on the photo to see the rest of my Glasgow photos.

  • Emley Moor Tower

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    I recently was fortunate enough to be doing some work for Arqiva on a day that they were doing maintenance up the tower and I got the chance to tag along.

    The Emley Moor tower at 330 meters is the UK’s tallest free standing structure. On the inside is a ladder running all the way to the top with 865 rungs, I counted them all on the way up (kidding !) The lift takes just over seven minutes to get to the top.

    The viewing deck is 275.3 meters up, the foundations are 6.1 meters deep. 7,000 cubic meters of concrete were used and the structure weighs 11,200 tonnes.

  • Upgraded To 2.5.1

    I know that you can’t really tell by looking at it but I upgraded my WordPress installation to version 2.5.1 over the weekend. I used the excellent Automatic upgrade plugin as found here:

    I had no problems with the upgrade process at all.

    The onmy thing that I have noticed is that the OpenID plugin has stopped working, I’m the only one using it at the moment so I have disabled it for the moment until I get a chance to investigate it.

    In creating this post I have noticed that my Flickr and Photo Dropper plugins are also not working. 🙁

  • My First Marathon

    Acording to my training plan here I have just finished my first marathon!

    I did it in a time of 5 hours 28 minutes.

    OK, in actual fact it took me 41 days, but it is a milestone !

  • New Personal Best ! — 4 Miles


    Creative Commons License photo credit: Carmelo Aquilina

    That is most definitely the furthest and fastest I have ever travelled by foot in the last decade !

    OK, it was my slowest speed to date, but I’m not to concerned about speed just now.

    My goal is to finish the 10K in 4 weeks time; gulp, I can’t believe it’s so soon !

    If I could maintain my current 13minute mile I should come in under 1 hour 20 minutes, lets set that as a goal !

  • Emma On Real Radio

    Real Radio

    My daughter; Emma Goodman was on Real Radio last weekend.

    I have removed the mp3 of her appearance as the size of it has exceeded my sites bandwidth allowance. If you woul like a copy, pleas contact me and I will send it to you.

  • New Training Partner

    Sarah Goodman, my 13 year old daughter decided to join me on my run tonight.

    She did great, she did’nt slow me down any. I am keeping track of my training in a Google spreadsheet here.

    We are in training for our upcoming fundraising events.

    See the widgets on the right if you would like to donate.