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Trailwalker 2011 - training walk two.
Bradley and I got up at "0:TooEarly" last Sunday to get another training walk in for the fast approaching 100km hike for Oxfam. This one would start from where we ended last time, and go all the way to the end of the course (stages 9, 10 and 11 - about 30km ( Read more... ) -
Trailwalker 2011 - first big training walk
I'll be participating in the 100km hike in July this year in aid of Oxfam/The Gurkhas. To make sure I don't die after the first stage, some practice walks were arranged - and last Friday I walked stage 7 and 8. I also finally got to play with a gadget I'd been wanting to test for a while: The Garmin GPSmap 60CSx ( Read more... ) -
Must be true... I read it on twitter!
I foolishly reposted something I saw (repeated) on twitter as a Facebook status update. When will I learn ( Read more... ) -
The power of Zero...
...or how I am an idiot who was nearly £4.5k in debt ( Read more... ) -
fuego fuego fuego
On Friday 18 March I joined a few of my work friends on a trip to Valencia for "the Falles". Apart from a nightmare of a bus journey to the airport the trip there was okay and we arrived in good time for "La Nit del Foc" (The night of fire), a firework display the likes of which I could not have imagined before this trip ( Read more... ) -
New shinys!
It's bonus time ( Read more... ) -
Ahhhh
If there are two things in the world that can make me believe we might just get through this without killing each other, it's xkcd and Pterry. No world containing such insight can be truly doomed ( Read more... ) -
Atheism and me.
I was never much of a fan of Ricky Gervias, but a recent WSJ blog entry attracted my attention, mostly because he wrote how I see things ( Read more... ) -
Waiting for number 3
I did get my backpack back (that's a bit of a tongue twister!) and it had almost all my possessions in it. Perhaps unsurprisingly it was my iPod that was missing ( Read more... )