Welcome to niknak.org
Niknak Motorsport / Simon Hoade
I am a British software developer with a passion for fast code, fast cars and slick videos. These are my thoughts, my projects and my life...
I'm too lazy for a real blog so I use Twitter to document my daily highs and lows, sometimes with pictures.
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I love to experiment with video ideas and create short films, often using footage from track days.
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Recent tweets and mobile uploads
Tweets
Just won a free place at a Rockingham track day next Sunday thanks to the nice people at @bookatrack - cheers guys :D #caterham
@SimonHoade - 2:25 PM, 23 May 2013
Police seek woman who tweeted "I knocked a cyclist off his bike. I have right of way, he doesn't pay road tax": ipayroadtax.com/no-such-thing-…
@carltonreid - 9:23 AM, 20 May 2013
First blat of the year without a hat on, nice and warm this morning :) #caterham
@SimonHoade - 11:27 AM, 19 May 2013
Ask a programmer to review 10 lines of code, he'll find 10 issues. Ask him to do 500 lines and he'll say it looks good.
@girayozil - 6:42 PM, 27 February 2013
Website of the fucking day, no fucking questions asked. goodfuckingdesignadvice.com (via @paul66)
@jesperhills - 10:17 AM, 14 May 2013
Nothing quite like the smell of preinstalled vendor craplets in the morning veracode.com/blog/2013/05/e…
@codinghorror - 4:35 AM, 14 May 2013
Caterham Superlight vs Honda CBR600. Lots of fun, some of it legal. pic.twitter.com/NTl0Di6DdQ
@SimonHoade - 2:30 PM, 12 May 2013
Will all Male British Entertainers who were famous in the 1970s please just report to your local police station now.
@rickygervais - 12:21 PM, 7 May 2013Uploads
See all of my tweets and uploads here on Twitter
YouTube
Adventures with a Caterham and experiments with video editing
Watch all of my Caterham track day videos and editing experiments here on YouTube
Photos
A selection of recent photos from my extensive gallery
Continue browsing all of my photos here in the gallery
Archive
Old stuff that I still like to keep on the website
Blog
Although I haven't written an article for a number of years now, I did try and keep regular posts going for a while. Read them all here.
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Before I became a part of YouTube I edited and published track day videos here on my site. These are all of my old videos.
Read MoreCars
A collection of brief articles describing some of the cars I've had the pleasure (and displeasure) of owning.
Read MoreTrack days
I've been driving at track days since 2006 and these articles describe the highs and lows of some of those days.
Read MoreIIS Traffic Monitor
Home of my only published software tool, a free and widely used per-site bandwidth usage reporting tool for IIS 6+. No longer supported.
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