Okay, so I got a ticket for parking near PizzaExpress on Holyrood Road.

But I decided to argue the ticket on the grounds that there are supposed to be "... large, prominent signs at all
entrances to the controlled zones" (see picture below)

Edinburgh Council Parking people will not budge and I continue to see car after car lifted from this are. There aren't any legal requirements to have signs beside single yellow lines, but given that I didn't think I was in the Central Controlled Zone I figured Saturday afternoon would be fine... As did the ten or more other car drivers who got ticketed with mine.

Image of the entrance to the Central Controlled Zone at Holyrood Gait

.... Can you read the sign?

Pete's Stag Do

I spent a week training our staff in India, it wasn't really "LoadRunner Training" more how to plan, execute and explain Performance Test results.

My tourist pics:

Stephen's India Visit

I just finished the rather painless task of upgrading my wireless router to use the DD-WRT firmware. See dd-wrt.com

Ages ago I tried OpenWRT but at the time it didn't have the wireless secruity I wanted. The upgrade from OpenWRT to DD-WRT was easy and at first I had the Linksys router acting as a wireless client bridge (using WPA TKIP) to my Sky broadband Netgear router.

With DD-WRT, the Netgear box displayed the same problem as my office DELL D630 - it kept dropping the wireless link.

At first I had it setup like thishttp://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/images/3/3a/ ... _large.jpg

In the end I followed the instructions here and now I'm running a wireless network with two access points. One on the Netgear (Sky Firmware) and one on the Linksys (DD-WRT firmware).

DD-WRT makes the linksys box is quite extensible and I might make further use of it as a print server.

I do like the idea of replaying logs as performance tests, this got me thinking:
http://www.igvita.com/2008/09/30/load-t ... og-replay/

When Steve Hedley and I did the ATM Service Management system performance testing, we took a recording of the service requests set by 7000 ATM's, parsed them and scaled them up to be 20,000 ATM's.

Record live system log, then tweak it to be input to a test system performance test.