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Ducklings in Theale
27 Apr 2010
The advantage of having a lake next to your office window is you can setup a tripod on the windowsill and film the ducklings…
… I took some static pictures too …
N.B. This is a backdated post as I take some of the things I have been doing elsewhere on the interwebs and add them to this site 
Skaiti
10 Apr 2010
This week a group of 250 skaters (including myself) headed to the Top Gear test track (Dunsfold Aerodrome) to skate for 24 hours and raise money for Haiti. It went quite well, I managed 3 marathons (80 miles) over the 24 hours which I was quite happy with
N.B. This is a backdated post as I take some of the things I have been doing elsewhere on the interwebs and add them to this site
Movember 2009
30 Dec 2009
A picture taken each day when growing my Mo for Movember in 2009 to raise awareness of Prostate Cancer. A very worthwhile cause and I highly recommend growing a “Mo”
N.B. This is a backdated post as I take some of the things I have been doing elsewhere on the interwebs and add them to this site
SantaSkate 2009
19 Dec 2009
A video I shot of the hundreds of skaters that took to the streets this year dressed as Santa for the yearly SantaSkate.
Camberley Skaters on How Clean Is Your House
27 Aug 2009
The Camberley Skaters are always getting strange requests and back in March 2009 we had a request for us to go on the (popular) TV show How Clean Is Your House. They originally wanted us to come along with some smelly skates but after much back and forth it was changed to a helmet with stickers on.
It was good of them to use us in the opening scene. You can see that I ignored all hypothermia to show off the cskate T-shirt at all opportunities and Kingol managed to stick a cskate sticker on his helmet a exactly the right place to be seen on camera 
N.B. This is a backdated post as I take some of the things I have been doing elsewhere on the interwebs and add them to this site
Easter Bunny Stroll 2009
12 Apr 2009
Each year the LFNS does a special Sunday Stroll for Easter named the Bunny Stroll. Here is a video I took of this year’s event…
Head shave for Children in Need
14 Nov 2008
People donated money to do whatever they liked to my head. All money was donated to Children In Need and I think I got off quite lightly!
N.B. This is a backdated post as I take some of the things I have been doing elsewhere on the interwebs and add them to this site
Rocket powered skates
25 Aug 2008
I had an old pair of skates and some rockets that launch themselves to 1000 feet. It was only logical to put the two together and see what happened…
N.B. This is a backdated post as I take some of the things I have been doing elsewhere on the interwebs and add them to this site
Beware of vouchers that expire
07 Jan 2008
I just wanted to warn people that if you got any vouchers for Christmas to be very careful about checking the date when they expire. I was shocked to find that vouchers I was given for my birthday expired less than four months later with no chance of a refund. Lost money and not just lost but they have the money for providing nothing!
Perhaps it is my fault for not reading the small print. I don’t get narked by many things but this has really gotten to me and the service was appalling. So much so that I have set a website to try and warn others (and make me feel a bit better). You never know, it may do something!
I have no problem with vouchers expiring, companies have to do this, prices of the experiences they sell will go up etc. however having a voucher that expired in less than four months with no other option is ludicrous in my opinion!
Update: The website worked! A very irate company got in touch and offered me a refund! I have now removed the link to the site that was in this post.
Silicone valleys, Germanium hills…
31 Dec 2007
Some things stay with you forever and I would like to think that the following little poem helped shape me. You see, the first computer I ever played with was the family Archimedes 310 and way before I had ever even heard the term “hacking” I was poking around in some of the library files trying to see how things worked. One of the first library files I looked at contained the following poem stuck in the middle of the code! I still don’t know who wrote it so I’m going to credit the author of the library. Surprisingly I can’t find this poem anywhere on the internet!
Silicone valleys,
Germanium hills,
Digital journeys,
And virtual thrills.Greetings, O hacker,
Feeling unwell?
Microchip tracker,
Welcome to hell.Jon Ribbens – DoggySoft
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