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Humour, IT

At the risk of sounding pretentious: Best Head of IT – Ever

Author Will Faulkner Date 16/02/2017
I’m not really one for blowing my own trumpet. Don’t get me wrong, I’m...
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Triumph Rocket III Roadster FC17 forward controls (brake)
Triumph Motorcycles & Jilly's

Triumph Rocket III Roadster Forward Controls – Refined Cycle FC17

Author Will Faulkner Date 16/08/2016
Refined Cycle FC17 Triumph Rocket III Roadster Forward Controls Prologue As a tall rider,...
Tagged FC17, Forward Controls, Refined Cycle | 12 Comments |
Rocket Face
Triumph Motorcycles & Jilly's

Triumph Rocket III Roadster – Totally absurd, totally desirable

Author Will Faulkner Date 16/05/2016
Update: Old post – newer model with Dave Platt cat-bypass is here Triumph Rocket...
Tagged Roadster, Rocket III, Triumph | 6 Comments |
Triumph Motorcycles & Jilly's

Triumph Thunderbird 1600 Short TORs and Waffle

Author Will Faulkner Date 12/03/2016
Decided I want a Rocket III, life’s too short to not go the ridiculous...
Tagged Mr Pigs Motorcycles, Short TORs, thunderbird, Triumph | Leave a comment |
General Observations

Martial Arts Fun: Hip Replacement 1

Author Will Faulkner Date 24/10/2015
Prologue If you’re a regular visitor to this site, or even a hapless repeat...
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Triumph Thunderbird with Mustang Day Tripper seat fitted
Triumph Motorcycles & Jilly's

Triumph Thunderbird 1600 – Mustang Day Tripper custom seat

Author Will Faulkner Date 04/08/2015
At last… after originally ordering the Mustang Day Tripper seat for my Thunderbird on...
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IT

Why WordPress Security is important – Secure your site from hackers now!

Author Will Faulkner Date 19/06/2015
Securing WordPress – Basic Steps to protect your site from hackers I’m sure that...
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Inbound SMTP load balancing
IT

Load Balance inbound SMTP across multiple mail servers

Author Will Faulkner Date 12/06/2015
Simple method to load balance TCP traffic (SMTP in this case) Open-source solution (CentOS...
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Humour

Profile picture versus default avatar – dilemma

Author Will Faulkner Date 19/01/2015
All of the pictures here have at one time or another, rightly or wrongly,...
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Travel

Will Faulkner Clan at Newton Ferrers, Devon

Author Will Faulkner Date 02/12/2014
A rare sight indeed – me, Debbie, Kelly and Kyle (doing his best Jason...
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IT

Windows 8.1 Hyper-V: 2012 DC, Exchange 2013, CentOS 7 & Windows 10 eval VMs

Author Will Faulkner Date 02/10/2014
Playing with Hyper-V on Windows 8.1 Enterprise Background: After 18 months working without break...
Tagged CentOS, Hyper-V, Windows 10, Windows 8.1 | Leave a comment |
Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation
IT

Windows 10 Insider Enterprise – Evaluation Build 10074

Author Will Faulkner Date 01/10/2014
Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation Downloaded Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation from Technet Evaluation Center (now...
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The George Inn, Hubberholme
Travel

The George Inn, Hubberholme, Skipton

Author Will Faulkner Date 28/04/2014
As a Birthday & Anniversary weekend we decided to pop away for a quiet...
Tagged Travel | 1 Comment |
Triumph Thunderbird 1600
Triumph Motorcycles & Jilly's

Triumph Thunderbird 1600

Author Will Faulkner Date 09/03/2014
Several months ago I saw my first Triumph Thunderbird in the flesh and vowed...
Tagged motorcycle, thunderbird, Triumph | 3 Comments |
Triumph Motorcycles & Jilly's

Vintage Triumph Motorcycle Magazine

Author Will Faulkner Date 12/10/2013
What-ho chaps…! Stumbled across this rather spiffing image of a March ’52 ‘Motor Cycling’...
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