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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 [...]

Archive for the ‘Party/Celebration’ Category

Restaurant Review: The Living Room (Milton Keynes) – Avoid!

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

I went out for dinner with my family tonight for my parents wedding anniversary. When we go out we often like to try different restaurants. none of us had been to The Living Room restaurant in Milton Keynes before so we thought we would give that a try. We pre-booked a table and arrived on [...]

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A Weekend of Action and a Weekend of Rest!

Monday, October 6th, 2008

The weekend 2 weeks ago was good fun! On Saturday I went down and wandered around the Tate Modern art gallery with Daniela (who I hadn’t seen since I left Barclays 3 years ago). The Rothko exhibition looked a bit strange (funny) at first (and it was!) but actually on closer inspection it was actually [...]

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Getting Ready for London Next Weekend

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

I’ve had 2 weeks off of work, I wanted to go away somewhere but I couldn’t find anyone to go with so I gave up on that idea and just stayed at home. At least I’ve been able to relax and also get the 2 gravel areas in front of my house dug out and [...]