Playing for West Herts Hockey Club I have often had to find other clubs when going to play them on a Saturday. So I have collated each clubs pitch information from the south east of England East Premier A and below and added it to a nice Google map. I Hope this helps who ever finds it.

Also I hope this will help you to find your local hockey club and start playing hockey! unless you can make it to West Herts Hockey Club and play for us instead!

This information is correct as of 2008 please always check the relevant clubs website just encase!

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St Albans Hockey Club Website

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Bedford Hockey Club Website

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Berkhamsted Hockey Club Website

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Bishops Stortford Hockey Club Website

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Bourne Hockey Club Website

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Braintree Hockey Club Website

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Brentwood Hockey Club Website

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Broxbourne Hockey Club Website

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Bury St Edmunds Hockey Club Website

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Cambridge City Hockey Club Website

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Cambridge University Hockey Club Website

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Cambridgeshire Nomads Hockey Club Website

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Chelmsford Hockey Club Website

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City of Peterborough Hockey Club Website

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Colchester Hockey Club Website

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Crostyx Hockey Club Website

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Dereham Hockey Club Website

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Felixstowe Hockey Club Website

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Harleston Magpies Hockey Club Website

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Harpenden Hockey Club Website

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Havering Hockey Club Website

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Hitchin Blueharts Hockey Club Website

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Ipswich - East Suffolk Hockey Club Website

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Ipswich Hockey Club Website

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Letchworth Hockey Club Website

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Long Sutton Hockey Club Website

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March Town Hockey Club Website

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Norwich City Hockey Club Website

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Norwich Union Hockey Club Website

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Pelicans Hockey Club Website

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Redbridge and Ilford Hockey Club Website

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Saffron Walden Hockey Club Website

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Shefford and Sandy Hockey Club Website

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Southend Hockey Club Website

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Spalding Hockey Club Website

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St Albans Hockey Club Website

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St Ives Hockey Club Website

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St Neots Hockey Club Website

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Sudbury Hockey Club Website

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Upminster Hockey Club Website

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Vauxhall Hockey Club Website

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Wapping Hockey Club Website

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West Herts Hockey Club Website

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Wisbech Hockey Club Website

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Witham Hockey Club Website

I have recently being looking to get a memory stick which boots Linux, so that I can develop websites and write programs in a contained environment.

I purchased a 4 gig OCZ Rally2 USB drive from Amazon for £25 and tested several Linux operating systems, using the guides at www.pendrivelinux.com.

I also wanted to get Beryl (now Compiz) working on the stick. I tried Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy, 7.04 Feisty, 6.10 and 6.06 - however Compiz only partially worked on some of them and each were very slow to boot. Also my network card was only detected in 7.10 which seamed to hang on the grub loader then kick into life(bout 3 min boot time).

I then tried pendrivelinux’s version of Mandriva http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/02/13/pendrivelinux-2008-install-from-windows/ - the install was fast and painless and the boot time was 30 - 45 seconds which is great!

The best thing about this OS build was the amount of software already installed and all my hardware “just worked” on both my laptop and my desktop - even Bluetooth and wireless worked straight out of the box.

Compiz comes pre-installed too with Intel and ATI drivers, so all I needed to do was install the NVIDIA driver and I was all set!

I now find myself using the USB pendrive more than my installed operating system because of the speed and flexibility. Big thanks to www.pendrivelinux.com!

For a long time I have been a fan of the concept of the CSS Zen Garden. Users are encuraged to submit cascading style sheets to format the standard provided xhtml page.

I have been meaning to put aside some time to create a design for them and have created one based on Coffee! It can be viewed here.

Back in October 2007 we went to Kew Gardens, and sore a fantastic display of plants in the Chilli house.

This inspired me to try to grow my own Chillis! thanks to the advice from http://www.chillisgalore.co.uk/ and http://www.thechileman.org/ - I set out buying the right equipment, soil and pots!

I bought some Kenyan Birds-eye chilli’s from the supermarket. I stripped out the seeds and placed them on a tea(without milk) solution filled kitchen roll. Left them in the airing cupboard to germinate and then planed them out into the propergator.

Here are the pictures that I have been taking of them as they have grown. This will be updated as time goes on.

 
continue reading "Chilli Diary"

Im trying to get my webdesign business off the ground and have been in search of a free web hosting company when I came accross 000webhost.com.

They provide hosting absolutely free, there is no catch. You get 250 MB of disk space and 100 GB bandwidth. They also have cPanel to control how the whole site functions from MySQL to php, but the best part is that there is no adverts or banners.

Signup is instant and my account for www.bradley-webdesign.com was created in 10 mins!

I have decided to start a new project on this site utilising Google maps API to pin-point places that have a great view over London, which don’t cost as much as the London Eye - In fact most are free!

Please submit your places as this would be a great way to share them, need the longitude and latitude as well as some text about the place and maybe a picture!

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Archway Bridge Great view of London looking south-east from the top of this bridge on Hornsey Road

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Whittington Hospital Nice view of London looking south from the 3rd floor of the main building

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Finsbury Park Small but nice view of london from Finsbury Park

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Hampstead Heath Looks like an awesome view of the east to south of the city

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Alexandra Palace Great View of London and the Docklands

Ok this might be of use if you are looking to install VNC accross a network, maybe via active directory or even if you just want a nice cool way to setup vnc without any hassle, it also checks and uninstalls a previous version.

continue reading "Silent VNC Install"

Last night @ 9pm sore the first episode of Channel 4’s “The Big Food Fight” with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Chicken Run, The programme was excellent. It underlines the 39-day life! of a high intensity production chicken, the same chicken that is in the “buy-one-get-one-free” or “two for a fiver” packs you see in the main supermarkets.

As a young person I have always been on a tight budget when buying food, after watching last night programme it sickens me to think that I have been “lured” by offers from supermarket giants into buying cheap, cruel and mass-produced poultry.

The government put blocks on alcohol offers to counter binge drinking, these offers luring people to buy more alcohol, why should this not happen for food we eat?

As food retailers I think they have a responsibility to the farmers and the consumer to ensure that this doesn’t happen, Why are food regulators letting this happen? My trust in them has been seriously damaged. I have decided to be more careful about the meat that we buy rather than just bunging it in the trolley, as a consumer we have the power to change this.

If you feel the way the same way I do about this then join the campaign here.

Also if you are confused by chicken package label jargon there is a good guide here.

I have recently designed a new website for Lascom Solutions (www.0870ver.co.uk) and have been trying to promote the site on Google. I was only aware of the Google addURL service to add a website to Google searches and didn’t know that if you have a Google account you can submit your site to their webmaster tools to monitor Google bot Crawls, keyword searches and page rankings!

Its a really slick user interface and gives a great insight in to what Google is doing with your website, putting more control back in the webmasters hands.

I also found that they like you to create an XML sitemap which can help improve page rankings(the sitemap for this site is here), I found this website which will automatically generate one for you, which you manually upload to your site. This blog uses a WordPress auto-sitemap plugin which generates one every time content changes!

Firstly Merry Christmas! 

And thats right im going skiing! I have never skiied before and I’m really looking forward to the joy and pain that the French Alps are going to put me through.

We are going for one week over new year to a resort called Les Contamines-Montjoie located in the heart of the Mont-Blanc range, between 1164 to 2500m altitude, the closest town being Chamonix.

I have already been shopping for my cloths and gotten some excellent bargins from TK maxx and consider myself to be well and truly kitted out!

Check-out http://www.lescontamines.net/ for more info and even a live webcam!

Im going to let you know how I get on but in preperation I have been using youtube and websites as research, but have only really found infomation on how to fallover, which im guessing I will be doing a lot of!