A few weeks back @lisaditlefsen tweeted on the birdmen. Seriously the closest thing humans can get to flying. Ive been on running commentry with my wife on doing it thinking the guys are actually pretty far from the cliff and have more control than we can really see….
but perhaps not!
the original bird men video, still gets me all excited 
Not sure if everyone is following the VORG
Picked this up this monting……ouch….
Just thought I’d take a few minutes to share a few mountainboarding videos, my helmet cam recently died so thee are filmed with the blackberry in the shoe! Anyhoo Mr Vodafone probably dosent ask where the mud comes from so im not going to care too much
Gabe - hes 8
Issy - Just turned 6
And me - didnt fall so not much point watching
All that proves is that im no cameraman and not as hardcore as these guys, got to try this!
Im sure most people reading arent aware of the Volvo Ocean Yacht Game but it has a current following of 85000 people. Thats a serious amount of people in a single online game that spans the better part of half a year to complete.
I registered last week while on a business trip to our Cape Town office. (yes i know what youre thinking but youre wrong, LOTS of work was done ) The thing thats great is that it only takes a few minutes every hour to check your bearings and see if the wind has changed. It also maps the actual wind across the globe to make it very very realistic. In short its pretty addictive.
BT announced on Tuesday that the BT Webwise trials have started again and not surprisingly the reception has been mixed. There is a huge amount of negativity towards Phorm from certain parties; some justified and some not. There is no point entering the debate myself, suffice to say there are some big and trusted technology companies out there that have worse privacy policies than Phorm.
“Zimbabwe has agreed not to participate [in the ICC World Twenty20] in the wider interest of cricket … we voluntarily agreed to back out … we don’t want to gatecrash where we are not welcome.”
If Zimbabwe Cricket chairman Peter Chingoka hopes that if you say something enough then people might start to believe it
Jul 4, 2008
i.e. we wont pitch up to force your hand because we know youre a bunch of gutless cowards and would prefer not to act
“The ICC should just write out a cheque for $10m to Mugabe.”
A disgruntled but unnamed cricket administrator in Dubai as quoted in the Australian
Jul 4, 2008
As most people have, i have been monitoring the Zimbabwe situation very closely hoping that we would see the end of the murderous dictator. That seems to be a false dawn and since the situation has developed into the completely farcical its time for all bodies to act and make sure that the sanctions imposed hurt him.
The ICC at the moment have another vote on whether to revoke Zimbabwes ICC test playing status and thus removing them from the elite sector of international cricket. As someone who has experienced sporting sanctions as a small boy i can honestly say that was my ownly real experience of apartheid, the one area they couldnt propaganda away, foreign countries would simply not play against us and as proud sportmen that really hurt.
I posted on the 29th of May that the new site would be live the next day, well ive been cleaning the egg off my face since then as we wanted to hold off for some new content ideas.
The official launch should happen tomorrow if a few weird IE issues are resolved by the design team.
holding thumbs
on a side note i took the kids on an upstream paddle up the thames on saturday which was epic.
I have been looking forward to this one for a while. At long last we have rebranded and updated the website to reflect our focus on being a specialist search marketing company.
With any luck the website will be live tomorrow and it will go from strength to strength from here. There is so much research and news that we gather as a company and it has been a real frustration not to be able to share that through our site.
The idea from here is to add new modules on a monthly basis starting with news while we refine the content for the knowledge base.
Just a quick shameless promotional post to say my lovely wifes website is now live!
If you know anyone getting married a personal wedding website is really something they should do. It will help people find all the information they need from google directions to the hen party to accommodation details for hotels nearby for guests from out of town.
Im really excited about it not least because the software took me so long to write. Yes my wife is very patient and no i dont have any scars where she “motivated” me to finish it