Graham of the Wheels (Page 2)

Music you might have missed part 4 - Canada & The States

I've made these type of posts before, although they were titled "Bands you might have missed" but this title probably suits these little posts better and I started numbering them. I'm in for the long haul ;). As you must know by now I enjoy....or rather love music

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Passwords just aren't enough

Passwords, it's near impossible to have never used those jumble of characters these days. I've posted about the use and management of passwords before. But these days passwords just aren't enough. Especially when people tend to use very simple passwords and using them on multiple websites. But like I said

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Experiencing couchsurfing

A few years ago while travelling through Australia I started hearing more and more about something called 'couchsurfing'. The first time I heard about this idea it made me snicker and I didn't really look into it until I got back home. In retrospect I would probably have used couchsurfing

West Coast Trail

Finally blogging about the West Coast Trail (henceforth called WCT or WeeeeCT as I said one day) that I hiked back in mid September with two friends. Like I mention in my previous blogpost I had been working out to shed weight and gain stamina/strenght. I managed to hit

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Protect your computer from yourself - redux

I've noticed that my blogpost tend to start with "It's been a while..." and it certainly has as my last post was at the start of January. Well to all my loyal followers (about 20 or so) thanks for waiting around and I hope you will like this

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Mastering passwords

It's been quite busy and still am with all the recent changes in my life. Not to worry...no major ones like a baby or anything...honest! But after my last post more then 3 months ago I haven't had much time for blogging as my new job keeps me

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Bands you might have missed - The summer feeling

The summer is nearly over on this side of the globe which wasn't really a good one with all the rain we had but the weather has been amazing the last week of September. Summer brings with it the summer feeling when everything looks just a little better. It might

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Bad news

Shaking things up every now and again helps to keep things fresh in your life. If you keep on doing the same things you do every day without any change in pace, input or excitement it gets very mundane indeed. We need new stimuli to keep ourselves going. So we

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Syria in retrospect

Back when I got home in July I saw this video on Vimeo by Ruslan Fedotow about Syria which reminded me of my two weeks of travelling back in 2008. 5 minutes of Syria from Ruslan Fedotow on Vimeo. I've never written about my travels through Syria with my friend

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Lowlands 2011

One of my favourite pastimes has to be music. Listening to a new album over & over again, going to a concert of a newly discovered band but the highlight of the year has to be attending the Lowlands festival with my friends. So last week it was that time

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Australia in hindsight

In hindsight it's always easy to look at decisions you made and know what you would have done different but that's not really how life goes now is it. One of my favourite quotes by this guy that was in some band puts exactly into words what I mean... Life

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Bali & Gili Trawangan

It's already been four days since I landed in this rather rainy country. Although it's summer on this side of the hemisphere it very rainy but I can't complain to much, the flights went very well. Even thought it was quite boring those 18 hours of flying from Bali >

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Western Australia

As you read this blogpost I am flying towards my next & final holiday destination, Bali, where I'll be staying for 2 weeks until my flight leaves for Amsterdam on the 13th of July. After weeks of trying to find work in and around Perth I've made the tough decision

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In & around Melbourne

It's been a while since I posted on my little blog, the last story was about Tasmania and my big adventure on the Overland Track. That was back in the end of February. Therefore in the last week that I've been in Geraldton in Western Australia (more on that in

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Tasmania & The Overland Track

For over two weeks of incommunicado, especially the 5 days on The Overland Track, it’s time for another post from me from Down Under. So as you read before in the previous post I was enjoying Melbourne and preparing for Tasmania and The Overland Track in particular. Pity Mieke

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Melbourne

After visiting Sydney, I moved on to Melbourne. I took the night train from Sydney to Melbourne on Friday around 20:40 and arrived in Melbourne in the early morning. I really wanted to see the countryside a bit and flying doesn't really help you with that. So I prefer

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First week in Sydney

Well after several days in Sydney I've finally found some time to make a blogpost about my experiences here. It's been almost 7 days now and I'll remain here until Friday when I hope to move on to Melbourne, either by train or plane. My plans are to see the

Preparing for travel

After years of longing and months of planning today I will finally fly towards Sydney, Australia (don't worry I'll definitely NOT make the Sydney, Canada mistake). Preparing to travel for a long period takes some planning but that's part of the journey and the fun. For me it started with

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A slightly different holiday

It's that time of the year again when Christmas and New Year cheer is in the air. Family and close friends get together for dinner and to enjoy each others company. Pity that the holidays fall in the weekend, so no extra off days this year. Although I have the

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Backup your Flickr account with Linux

As promised in my previous post, in this blogpost I'll guide you through a way to keep a local backup of your Flickr photos with the use of Python script on Linux. The script itself wasn't made by me, I wish I was that handy with Python, but here is

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Backup your Google mail and calendar with Linux

Our lives these days are more digital than ever. Just think about all the stuff you have online. E-mail, photo's, addressbook, calendar and probably a whole lot more. Of course you can trust that your data is safe from harm in "the cloud", it probably is but still

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Enjoying Facebook

Nope your not going crazy, my second post in two days. I had some drafts that I needed to finish up on. That and the preparations for my big travel plans in January didn't really give me much time for my blog. So a double treat ;) A while back I

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Enjoy the moment

One of my favorite pass times has to be listening to music, I enjoy it immensely. And on occasion I get to see one of my favorite bands live, which is an experience in itself. Some bands sound exactly like their album, for instance Blood Red Shoes, which isn't necessarily

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Learning to run

I never been the athletic type or liked sports much, especially watching sports on television has never much interested me. Although watching the Olympics Games and World Cup is always fun. I didn't play any football like most boys back in my youth, I was more into Judo which I

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Bands that you might have missed, the Nordic connection

Last time that I made post about Bands that you might have missed it was on Dutch and/or Flemish bands. Bands from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden are the subject this time. The Nordic connection. But lets get down to business. I kept the summaries short last time