Ride with Brad 2013 results as spreadsheet

I don't know why events publish their results as pdf files, especially where the times are sorted by rider surname. Most people want to be able to sort the times out into order, by route, by name, by time whatever. I know many people can do this themselves, but perhaps some can't so here I give the results from this year's Ride with Brad as an Excel spreadsheet. Basically I took the pdf from the chiptiming website (http://www.chiptiming.co.uk/pdf/2013ridewithbrad.pdf) and imported it into Excel, sorted by route, time, surname, then saved out the xlsx. Enjoy!
Here it is: http://www.newmillscomputer.co.uk/2013ridewithbrad.xlsx

Mac super slow and annoying?

Just a quick post.. recently my desktop and laptop Macs have become so irritating to use - every time I tried to do anything it seemed like it would freeze and give me the spinning beach ball of doom for ages. Really computer-smashingly annoying.

BUT! The fixes I found on this web page... www.whyismymacsoslow.net have really worked and fixed them both back to useable computer status. I ignored the preferences fix but did the repair permissions and delete cache fixes. Worked like a charm!

Apple Time Machine wireless backup no more?

** see below - it does work! **

Today I discovered that under OS X Lion, backing up with Time Machine to an external hard drive on another computer over wireless is no longer possible. This worked under Snow Leopard, but apparently now Apple have decided not to support this any more. I guess they want us to buy Time Capsules, which are hard drives with their own wireless base station built into the shell. They are ridiculously overpriced and I won't be getting one! So I guess I'll have to just periodically plug my external hard drive into my laptop and back up like that. Not very impressed with that one Apple!

UPDATE: hmm maybe you can do it over afp shares, let me check that...

UPDATE: OK it does work over an afp share, so it will backup over wireless, but now of course it wants to start over, so it says the initial backup will take 3 days. sob!

UPDATE (30/4/2012): OK well the initial backup of 183 Gig took 4.5 days (!) but it did finish and now it works perfectly with the little incremental backups.

So, the answer is, set your backup directory on your external hard drive as am afp share using System Preferences > Sharing. Then when you can see it on your laptop, you'll be able to use it in Time Machine. The initial backup will take an age, but then it will work! Great :)