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
0-60 in 4.23s vs 4.57s, recorded with VBOX HD2 and analysed with VBOX Test Suite. Absolutely brilliant kit from… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
@SimonHoade - 7:08 PM, 8 August 2017
Down at Goodwood in glorious sunshine :) pic.twitter.com/ecRUIwsDER
@SimonHoade - 7:10 AM, 6 August 2017
Caterhams arrived here en masse this morning to collect & use one of my old spare tyres. Better than throwing it ou… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
@SimonHoade - 11:27 AM, 5 August 2017
Every warning label has a story. pic.twitter.com/Q2h6631kiF
@BurgerVonStadt - 10:54 PM, 3 August 2017
Air filter upgraded to a K&N RE-0910. Quite a bit bigger than the Caterham filter. Hopefully it will help!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
@SimonHoade - 5:54 PM, 1 August 2017
This week I have been mostly making my engine suck more. Air, that is. And boy was it worth it! #caterham pic.twitter.com/eFDiv3U97i
@SimonHoade - 3:41 PM, 28 July 2017
A great day for it! Over half-way to the fund raising goal now :) pic.twitter.com/wRQEZFcMo2
@SimonHoade - 4:41 PM, 18 July 2017
Nice morning out at the Boosted South breakfast meet! pic.twitter.com/9PKSZr3bAe
@SimonHoade - 10:22 AM, 16 July 2017
Another happy passenger in the #Caterham today and another donation to Cancer Research :) pic.twitter.com/iFmTvTCJOL
@SimonHoade - 12:58 PM, 14 July 2017Uploads
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
Extras
Things I like to keep on the website, some of it quite old
System Info
A selection of statistics about the platform running this website, taken from VMware vSphere and directly from monitoring hardware.
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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.
Read MoreVideos
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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