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I’m off

A clue about who I am going with… Larger Version Next update Singapore!!!!!!

Around the world in 13 beers

So the trip to the other side of the world starts in five days! I really can’t wait, it is so exciting to be going back to Australia. I will also get to see a little bit of Singapore on the way! Great! So this weekend Kim, Gin and

Uninstall Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 from the Command Line

It was early in the morning and Dave looked concerned. Firefox was one of the few programs he could get to work on his system because the beta of IE7 he had installed had not gone well. It was not working at all and because IE is integrated in nearly

Poor Whale

This weekend was Matt‘s birthday, someone I have worked with for quite a few years now and have enjoyed many a time with. One of our achievements was inventing The Sandwich Game way back in ’03 , which although seems a bit silly, saved us a pretty penny on lunch

10 Years of HTML

Circa ’96 Sorry no pictures of anything because the hardrive in my computer stopped working! I think the head is scratched so there’s no way to retrieve any of the data. I lost some photos that I took over Christmas, but everything else is backed up! Phew!! I have

Post Christmas Post

Happy New Year! Thanks for all the emails, Matt D. your one was especially good, very detailed!! It feels like this is the first time I’ve sat down at home for about three weeks but I think that is actually the case! Just before Christmas kicked off we went

Best of 2005

There’s a ‘Best of 2004‘ so here comes The Best of 2005!!! Album of the Year – Jack Johnson – In Between Dreams I’d never heard of Jack Johnson until a group of us went to see him live in a park in Sydney, Australia. The gig was really good

Merry Christmas 2005

Merry Christmas to everyone from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire Merry Christmas from Ron and Gary As soon as I’ve digested Christmas dinner I’ll write some more 😉 Rock on!

Woolloomooloo Reunion

Moustache Magnus was in town from Sweden (here, here, here, here, here, here, here and finally here) pretty much a year to the day that I last saw him on a nice sunny day in Sydney airport as he flew back to Sweden via Thailand. Magnus arrived late on Friday

Screaming Like Monkeys

Surfing in Bondi was called off yesterday after a 4-5 metre (2-3 post hype) bronzer or tiger shark was seen swimming in the bay. “There were 100 people up the top screaming like monkeys,” said Anthony Carroll, one of the lifeguards who went out on jet-skis to alert swimmers. Bondi

Better than Maroubra (Surf Trip 7)

Matts words not mine. Matt was here again on a stop off from Bangkok and about to fly back over to Sydney via Singapore. It was also his birthday so we all headed up to Shoreditch for a couple of drinks in Hoxton square and something to eat at Macondo.

Prego! Prego!

A little winter trip was much needed to get away from the London coldness blues, so we hit Sardinia, which is an island just off of Italy (you can see it here). It was a beautiful little trip and very cheap costing only £80. Although it was out of season

Ki’s 25th Birthday London Style

Ki joined the revolution and decided to hit London town for his 25th celebrations. The guys all arrived on a cold cold Saturday morning in London. Ki brought down his computer for me to fix but didn’t bring the monitor or keyboard so it will have to wait for

Yesterday was weird

Kelly Slater has won the ASP world championships for the seventh time! It makes him the youngest and oldest winner of the ASP, doing it when he was 20, then five times inbetween, and then onces again now he is 33! Amazing! Slater wins on points And here he is

Up North

This weekend I swapped the board for a horse and a farm as we set out for North Yorkshire. Yorkshire is about five hours drive North of London so it is a bit like driving to Cornwall but in a different direction (and on a much better road). I loaded

C - O - L - D (Surf Trip VI)

And it will only get colder from here on in. The Global Surfari Surf Report was putting out 3ft waves with hardly any wind but short periods for the weekend. So it was with a 50/50 decision that we headed to the Welsh capital of Cardiff for an extended

“You can’t surf in England”

Newquay on Saturday 15th October – Can you see the little man? “Little Fistral” Worst Case Scenario…happening The rocks on the coast here are potentially deadly, as I found out at Croyde when stepping on one! All these pictures are from the marvellous K-Fish website, so check it out. Wonder

Return to the Land Down Under

Hold the phones! The return trip to Australia via Singapore will be underway on February 14th 2006! So Sydneysiders keep 17th to the 28th February free for the wildest surfing/drinking/bbq’ing parties you can ever imagine!! The Route! Better get packing!

Nike 10K London

Last weekend a group of us from work did the Nike 10k run in London’s Hyde Park. I did this run last year with Mike and Rachael in Sydney, Australia and dedicated myself to doing it again. The problem was I did not do any training for this one

Nürnberg not Nürburgring

If there’s one thing I’ll learn from the couple of days spent in Germany, that is that there’s no such thing as the Nürnberg Ring, a fantasy location that I had wanted to visit on my trip over. Apparently the Nürburgring is some 400km away. The reason

G2007 Two Years On

On this day in History – 1793 – French Revolution disestablished christianity in France 1864 – Calcutta India, almost totally destroyed by a cyclone 1910 – Portugal overthrows the monarchy 1947 – First televised White House speech by Harry S. Truman 1966 – Partial meltdown of the Enrico Fermi nuclear reactor near Detroit, Michigan 1991 – First

International Lifestyle

A great weekend spent at an undisclosed location in the world (not Ireland) where I drank some beer in small glasses – Undisclosed Beer Drinking Location On another note met Matt (here/here/here and here) at Gloucester Road tube station for a quick beer on the way back from the

Fear makes the wave look bigger…. (UK Surf Trip 5)

It’s the middle of September, the best time of the year to go surfing in the UK because the water is “warm” and the waves are “big”. I will definitely say the water feels warm but that is probably because the air temperature is less than the sea temp!

On Holiday?

I was at an undisclosed location this weekend. Can you guess where it is? More later……

Google Earth is Amazing

Google Earth is amazing. Since Hurricane Katrina hit the USA many people around the world as well as people from Google and NOAA have been creating overlays to be used with Google Earth to show the devastation that the flooding and hurricane has caused. Here is a screenshot from my