EDF ENERGY BIRMINGHAM

Posted on 16 September, 2008 by Pete

On 26th October 2008 Birmingham will stage its first ever half marathon organised by Birmingham City Council and this historic Race Against Climate Change is sponsored by
EDF Energy. 

The EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon, which is 13.1 miles long, will start outside the Birmingham Alexander Stadium in Perry Barr, a fitting venue given that the stadium has hosted numerous international and national athletic events.
The runners will then make their way into Birmingham City Centre and will finish on Broad Street next to Centenary Square.
Everyone who takes part in the EDF Energy Birmingham Half Marathon will receive an official t-shirt and a medal.
To enter the event now click on the ‘enter online’ button at the top of this page.

More Info

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Xtreme Terrain 10

Posted on 16 September, 2008 by Pete

Twice around the 5k track, all multi terrain with slight inclines and trails. This course uses the same tracks as the other Festival events. Although not particularly hilly it is wonderful scenary to run across with some fast gravel tracks and slower heathland trials.

Xtreme Terrain 10

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Stoppies on a VFR =(

Posted on 16 September, 2008 by Pete

Well yesterday morning i discovered that stoppies on my VFR are baaaaaaaad.

Coming up to a round about the nice transit van infront of me decided that he was going to go, and then stop. I slammed on my brakes which cased me to do a stoppie and then as the back landed i lost my ballance and dropped the bike.

No injuries to me (except a pulled muscle from picking the bike up), however the bike came away with a broken clutch..

Rescue came in the form of a nice man, a very nice man, a very very nice man… from The AA.

Ahh well…

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RSS Feeds in a vb.net desktop application…

Posted on 10 September, 2008 by Pete

Ok so i thought it would be a good idea to write an RSS feed reading into the project that im currently working on.

Based on this i found the following code:


Public Shared Function ProcessRSS(ByVal rssURL As String, ByVal feed As String) As String
Dim request As WebRequest = WebRequest.Create(rssURL)
Dim response As WebResponse = request.GetResponse()
Dim sb As New StringBuilder("")
Dim rssStream As Stream = response.GetResponseStream()
Dim rssDoc As New XmlDocument()
rssDoc.Load(rssStream)
Dim rssItems As XmlNodeList = rssDoc.SelectNodes("rss/channel/item")
Dim title As String = ""
Dim link As String = ""
Dim upperlimit As Integer = rssItems.Count
If upperlimit > 5 Then
upperlimit = 5
End If
If upperlimit > 0 Then
sb.Append("" + feed + "

    ")
    Dim i As Integer = 0
    While i < upperlimit
    Dim rssDetail As XmlNode
    rssDetail = rssItems.Item(i).SelectSingleNode("title")
    If Not IsNothing(rssDetail) Then
    title = rssDetail.InnerText
    Else
    title = ""
    End If

rssDetail = rssItems.Item(i).SelectSingleNode("link")
If Not IsNothing(rssDetail) Then
link = rssDetail.InnerText
Else
link = ""
End If
sb.Append("

  • " + title + "

    • ")
    i += 1
    End While
    sb.Append("")
    End If
    Return sb.ToString()

    this is all good and seams to work.. except i needed to add a proxy logon:
    request.Proxy.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultCredentials

     

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    oooo New and Shiney

    Posted on 6 September, 2008 by Pete

    Im still trying to figure out whats going on with this wordpress thing, so please bare with me.

    It may take me a few days to get all of the piccys back up aswell

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