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Olympics 2012 – are you going?

Posted by Techboy on Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

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

Posted by Techboy on Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

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 [...]

Introductory Winter Mountaineering Course (February 2011) – Update on Costs

Posted by Techboy on Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

The worst part of going on holiday is planning them! In my previous post I detailed the projected costs of the travel for the mountaineering course that I’m going on. After literally quite a few hours of fiddling on www.thetrainline.com, various hotel companies (including www.lastminute.com, www.expedia.com. etc.) and www.quidco.com I have revised my travel plans to [...]

Things I’m working on right now

Posted by Techboy on Friday, September 3rd, 2010

This is a very brief update on things that I am working on right now Knee Injury: Since January I have had an injury with my left knee. This has resulted in me doing a lot less sport training and events than I would have liked I have had 2 sessions with a chiropractor at [...]

Decisions – Which New Mobile Phone Shall I Get?

Posted by Techboy on Friday, June 11th, 2010

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 [...]

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Films and Console Games – Cheaper to Rent than to Buy

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

I’ve done some sums and figured out that from what I have bought in the past, it will actually be cheaper for me to rent and buy videos (Blu-Ray DVD) and console games (you can’t currently rent PC games). Plus I have bought some console games that I didn’t like, so I’ve only played a [...]

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Items on ebay

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Tonight I have posted a 75-300mm Canon camera lense and a Polar F6 watch with heart rate monitor onto ebay. The reasons I’m selling them are: I’ve bought myself a 75-300mm image stabilised version of the same lens I bought a Garmin Forerunner 50 to replace the Polar F6. Mainly because the interface between the [...]

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New Camera – Canon 40D!

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

A few months ago I heard that the Canon 450D was coming out, so I sold my Canon 350D on ebay and eagerly awaited its release. Then once the 450D came out I did a little research (here and on other websites and magazines) and found out that the 40D (which had been out for [...]

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