Strava is the go to place for most people when it comes to tracking the runs of yourself and following your friends and generally helping to see how you’re progressing (I love a Strava segment!). Since it’s supposed to do most things for your automatically one thing I often see confusing other runners is personal
Windows 10 Broken After 1803 install
I’ve been meaning to document this somewhere for ages as a note for future reference! When my PC in the office updated to Windows 10 1803 I had a bit of a problem… Logging in took an age and I was then presented with the following error C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable.
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Invalid XML Error When Opening Outlook
Just a very quick one as I came across this for the first time in ages today. This isn’t particularly new but I wanted to document it somewhere! When opening Outlook you receive the error “Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. Invalid XML, the view cannot be loaded.” What this means is
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My Year In Running – 2017
2017 was a brilliant running year for me. The main goal was to participate in the Birmingham Marathon but there were various other events throughout the year which contributed to it being such a good year. The most memorable were three events where I was able to set personal bests over three different distances. (links
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Run For Your Life – A Magazine About Everyday Runners
Kickstarter as a concept I think is generally a good thing. Having a great idea but no clue if it’s financially viable must be so common. Kickstarter fixes that problem by allowing people to put their plans out and there and if there is interest then you get funding upfront. That doesn’t mean, plenty of
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DNS Server Can’t Resolve Against Itself
What an exciting, eye catching headline! We took a call from a potentially new customer who were unhappy with their current support provider. I went to take a look at the system and the main technical issues they were describing all seemed to be DNS related. There were immediately several things that jumped out to
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Trend Micro – Can’t Uninstall AVG
What’s this? A technical post? Quick and easy one. I was trying to install the Trend Micro Worry Free Business Advanced client on a PC and I got the following message Unable to Remove Incompatible Software Installation unsuccessful. The installer could not uninstall AVG 2012 x64 automatically Manually uninstall this product and retry. Now a
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Tile Mate
I’m always forgetting where I’ve put things Keys, phone and wallet are the usual suspects but I’ll frequently pick something up, then put it down and then have no idea where it’s gone. So when I first came across Tile Mate it seemed to have been made just for me! Tile Mate is a little
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Birmingham Marathon 2017
As mentioned previously…running is a thing now. Back in 2016 I ran the London Marathon. I got in by pure luck through the ballot, had an amazing time and thought that would be my one and only marathon. But I’ve ended up running a lot more since then (and actually enjoying it) so when I
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Testing, Testing (2017 version..)
Is this thing on? The last thing I wrote about was my 10 year “Blogiversary” After writing a few paragraphs marvelling at myself for writing for so long I then proceeded to not write anything for a whole year Yay me! So it is literally a year…today is the 11th anniversary of my first blog
