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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Olympics 2012 – are you going?

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 [...]

Xbox Kinect – My Living Room is too Small for it!

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

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

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

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?

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 [...]

Present ideas (for me!)?

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

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!

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

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)

Friday, June 5th, 2009

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!

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

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 [...]

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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