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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 ‘Snowboarding’ Category

Questars Race 1 – 28 March 2009 – New Forest, Hampshire

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

I entered Race 1 of the 2009 Questars Adventure Race with Steve. We entered the 6 hour Questars Trio format as mens pair team, so it was mountain biking, running and kayaking. The morning started off very cold. I looked around and I was the only person in shorts and t-shirt, so I nipped over [...]

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SCUK Summer Bash Review

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

I had a good time last night, although it would have been better if they had more kit out for novice-intermediate skilled riders (they did last year). What I like most about Tamworth is seeing advanced riders perform there – doing forward flips, clever things on rails and the quarter pipe. I got pretty far [...]

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SCUK Summer Bash (Snowboarding in Tamworth)

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

I’ll be snowboarding in Tamworth on Saturday night from 10pm – 1.30am. Most people will be camping in a field, but I have opted to stay in a nearby hotel. Then on Sunday I might pop over to Birmingham town centre to look around the shops (shame to go all that way and just head [...]