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Olympics 2012 – are you going?
You have until the 26th April to apply for tickets to the London Olympics. I’m going to apply for the: Opening ceremony Cycling (velodrome – mens finals) Triathlon Anyone (who knows me) want to go with me? If so, let me know because I’m going to buy the tickets soon (maybe this weekend). I don’t mind [...]
Trading with the Bulls
I have always wanted to find an easy, quick gain, low risk – high reward entry into the stock market. Until recently that seemed impossible, but now I think I might have found it… I am a self-confessed geek (hence the nick-name ‘Techboy’ – which Steve Bush at Barclays Bank PLC originally gave me). Before [...]
Xbox Kinect – My Living Room is too Small for it!
My brother is 27 today – which coincides with the day that the Microsoft Kinect comes out in the UK. So a couple of weeks ago I decided to get him a Kinect as a present. I tried several online shops but none of them had it available for pre-order as they had already sold [...]
Cheapest UK Price for the Samsung Galaxy S
I have decided to buy the Samsung Galaxy S mobile phone which is exclusive to Vodafone. It is currently the highest spec mobile phone running the Android operating system in the UK. It came out yesterday so I walked into my local Vodafone shop (in Milton Keynes) but they didn’t have one in stock – [...]
Decisions – Which New Mobile Phone Shall I Get?
I currently have an HTC HD (running Windows Mobile 6.1 OS) on the O2 network and my contact expires at the end of this month, which means that I can get a new phone. My preferences for a new phone fall into 3 categories: Android based, iPhone 4 and Windows Phone 7 based. Android I [...]
Paul’s Advice on Share Dealing
This is an extract from an e-mail conversation that I had with a friend today. I was giving some info/advice on shares. Others might find it useful…? Warning, it is a bit disjointed Hi, I started trading in shares late 2007. Last year I cashed in about £5.5k (I gained about 7k and lost about £1.5k). I [...]
Present ideas (for me!)?
It’s my birthday on Tuesday (31) and I can’t think of anything I want for a present. Any ideas? Backup plan is a Herman Miller Mirra chair.
My first Triathlon is Looming – Sooner than I Thought!
Last Tuesday (9th June) I got an e-mail in my inbox telling me that I had won a prize in a competition… Me: Fantastic! Reading on: The prize is free entry into a Triathlon Me: That’s good I want to enter a Triathlon Reading on: It’s a Sprint Triathlon – 750m swimming (in a lake), [...]
I’ve Bought a Road Bike! (Trek Madone 4.7)
I bought a new mountain bike in January and just 5 months on I’ve bought a road bike! Over the past 18 months I have competed in several Adventure Races which are great fun, but there is always an element of luck in them because competitors can choose multiple routes. So I would like to try [...]
Going Tubeless!
In my last Adventure Race, I got 2 punctures. The time it took me to fix them resulted in Steve and I ending up in 17th place when we should have been in around 8th place. I think the punctures were just a result of bad luck as I was using good wheels, tyres and [...]