This was the Amazon.co.uk purchase which arrived Saturday morning!
A Sphero 2.0! Sphero is a robotic ball, which can be controlled via a phone or computer, many different development kits have been released, e.g. Android, iPhone and Python etc It’s a bit like a modern day Big Track, but it’s a ball!
Sphero 2.0
Sphero 2.0
More pictures of what’s in the box
I quickly popped to Church today, for Remembrance Sunday and also to place these “trackables” in the Geocache!
This place “Kirby Underdale” sounds like it’s from Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings
The Church at Kirby Underdale
The Church at Kirby Underdale
these were the trackables dropped at the geocache..
Google-ing the Internet where I could purchase a particular item on Friday afternoon, surprise, surprise! only Firebox and Amazon.co.uk, had this item listed.
Later Friday evening at exactly 8 November 2013 18:57, I picked up my smartphone and Googled again, and was taken to the Amazon.co.uk website, it stated order in the next 3 minutes for delivery Saturday 9th November 2013, with 1-Click Checkout I was done, and it was ordered!
What’s bizarre, is I’ve had a delivery before from Amazon.co.uk for a Saturday delivery, which arrived by DPD, my usual DPD deliveries, advise me of when it’s going to be delivered, but not Saturdays, unless there is not enough time to prepare the information.
At 8 November 2013 22:11, I had confirmation from Amazon.co.uk my order had been despatched. This also provided DPD tracking information that confirmed it was at Oldbury.
DPD Tracking Information
I set my alarm clock, to wake me up, as DPD deliveries can be early on Saturday, so much for the rest! Shortly after opening the bedroom curtains, I spotted the DPD delivery van, which could only have been for me, with my Amazon.co.uk Order!
Here it is:- Angus has to inspect everything, well it is for Esther, Angus and Tilly.
So this Christmas why not place an order with Amazon.co.uk, or use DPD for your deliveries.
I do not work for Amazon.co.uk or DPD.
and if you are interested, in what my order was, you will have to wait until tomorrow!
UPDATE see what was ordered here!
I’ve arrived home from work yesterday evening late, after changing yet another wheel on my car after a puncture! A nice treat after spending an hour changing a wheel/tyre!
To find this delivery from the US via FedEx!
A Raspberry Pi
A Raspberry Pi
Thanks to SimpliVity for the Raspberry Pi, a gift from them for being a VMware vExpert 2013!
A little bit about SimpliVity
SimpliVity was established in late 2009 with the humble mission of simplifying IT, and we are well on our way. OmniStack™–our novel technology that includes 10 patent-pending innovations– powers a new assimilated, IT infrastructure platform. SimpliVity’s OmniCube™ platform provides enterprise computing, storage services and network functionality, inclusive of WAN optimization, Unified Global Management, Seamless Cloud Integration, Primary Storage Deduplication, Backup deduplication, Caching, and Global Scale Out— all at a fraction of the acquisition cost of standard infrastructure, a fraction of today’s traditional operating costs, and with a game-changing reduction in complexity. When deployed, OmniCube systems create an OmniCube Global Federation, creating a massively scalable pool of shared resources, and enabling efficient data movement, scalability, and enterprise class system availability – all managed from a single pane of glass, by a single admin.
To help carry the shopping back from Pocklington this winter, I’ve purchased….
A sledge!
I just hope it snows, so Lindsey and I can go sledging this Christmas.
If you need to complete a Physical to Virtual (P2V), Virtual to Virtual (V2V) conversion to a VMware product (VMware Workstation, Player or vSphere) for FREE, then there is some good news…
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5 was released on 22 October 2013, and this latest version has new support for the following:-
Also fixes numerous issues with crashing and conversion issues, when converting physical or virtual computers to VMware vSphere vCenter Server 5.5 and VMware Hypervisor ESXi 5.5.
While I would recommend and use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5, there are other commercial products that do exist, and I have used.
If you have a large estate of physical machines to migrate, these products have a scheduler and can perform automated workflows, but these are commercial products and not FREE like VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5
Symantec System Recovery Server Edition
If the operating system is Windows 2003, Windows 2000 or Windows NT 4.0, select and earlier version of VMware vCenter Converter Standalone version 3.0.3 or 4.0, support for early operating systems has been removed now from v5.5.
if you have recently upgraded to vSphere vCenter Server 5.5, and are looking for the Convert/Import vCenter plugin which existed with 4.x, it’s now longer available, and has been removed, and you will need to use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5 for your conversions.
and if you do use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5, and you want to make your transfers 60% faster checkout my EE article here
Download VMware vCenter Converter 5.5 here
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5 Documentation
VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5 User Guide
If you have issues, you may want to consult the following articles and guides
Read fellow Expert Bestway’s article.
Best Practice Video Guide here
Some Videos I’ve developed for Experts Exchange members to show the VMware vCenter Converter process.
A Tutorial video by me:- VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Process at work
We visited Scampston Walled Garden, at the weekend, here are some photographs I took…
Small Tortoiseshell - Aglais urticae
White tailed bumblebee - Bombus lucorum
these were taken with a mobile phone, not a DSLR with a macro lens!
After receiving an email from a friend, asking for a larger resolution photograph of him from the 1991!
I thought I would go back through the back catalog of unpublished photographs
Sony Glasstron Glasses
Sony Glasstron Glasses
These pictures were taken in 1999, these are Sony Glasstron Glasses, which projects a large cinema screen in front of the viewers eyes, I used them to watch DVDs on my portable DVD player, whilst community to clients site on the train. On two separate occasions whilst sitting in First Class on the train to Edinburgh, watching a DVD, a GNER Ticket Inspector interrupted me, and asked “which stop are you departing the train, so I can help you, Sir” – he thought I was blind!
Do you find yourself with half a dozen cloud storage providers?
I’ve currently got storage accounts with
I needed to get some files onto my Microsoft Surface RT tablet yesterday, unfortunately there seems to be an issue with Dropbox with the Surface RT and syncing to the cloud, the Surface RT uses Skydrive.
But how do I get my data from Dropbox to Skydrive?
Use cloudHQ, this cloud based application will continuously sync all your files between different cloud services: in real-time
It took me five minutes to complete the easy drag and drop configuration to sync files and data between Dropbox and Microsoft Skydrive!
You can also Backup all your emails from Gmail to Dropbox!
Brilliant use of the Cloud, Excellent Product, I also like the ability to browse current cloud storage vendors using the cloudHQ website!
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