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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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SAP Doesn’t ‘Get’ Twitter…

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

I currently subscribe to around 10 SAP RSS feeds, which is okay, although due to the nature of SAP and its modular approach to software; items are cross-posted to various RSS feeds meaning that I see a lot of duplication. Now SAP have started to use Twitter, but their approach to it is to just export [...]

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The Whole Christmas and New Year Thing…

Monday, December 29th, 2008

I don’t like Christmas. First of all, I prefer to write ‘xmas’ because the word ‘Christmas’ is too long is too religious for my liking. I’m not a Scrooge by any means, but I don’t like the xmas period because: It’s a religious holiday and I’m an atheist. I haven’t met a single person who [...]

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