Monday April 2, 2007 - Permanent link to this post - Comments
A big thanks to everyone who sponsored me for the Swimathon event. I did my 2.5km swim a couple of weeks ago and it went very well. I completed it in 1hour 10mins.
I managed to raise an impressive £246.50 for Marie Curie Cancer Care. I'm pleased with that and I'm sure Marie would be too.
Cheers
Thursday February 15, 2007 - Permanent link to this post -
Hello,
I’m going to be swimming 2.5km (just over 1.5 miles) at the end of March for Swimathon 2007 and I need you to sponsor me and support Marie Curie Cancer Care who provide nursing care, free of charge to give terminally ill people the choice of dying at home supported by their families.
Right now I’m incredibly unfit, so this will definitly be a challenge. Sponsor me so that you can help people with cancer, or just so that you can feel better about yourself and tell street collectors that you “already give”.
You can sponsor me by going to My Sponsorship page and clicking one of the big “Sponsor me“ buttons at the top left and bottom of the page. If you’d rather sponsor me with old school, analogue cash, I’ll be carrying a sponsorship form around with me pretty much all the time until the event.
Come on now, sponsor me. It’s for a really good cause.
Thursday December 21, 2006 - Permanent link to this post - Comments [1]
Just when I thought I'd given up blogging, Matthew tagged me with a meme and pulled me right back in. I asked him if I could do it on Twitter but apparently that's not the done thing.
So here goes. Five things that some of you might not have known about me before today.
I'm only going to tag one person because he's usually the first to tag somebody else and I know he'll tag a million other people in return. They call him Mr Meme. He's a beta-holic. It's Luke Dorny
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Monday September 11, 2006 - Permanent link to this post - Comments [3]
Man, I feel powerful tonight. I have breathed life into what was dead. I have fixed the broken. I have stared the Grim Tech Reaper in the face and he ran away with his syth between his legs.
Last Thursday morning I took the bus to the train station, all ready for my four hour trip to Brighton and the d.construct conference. I was three Arctic Monkeys tracks into the journey when my ipod just froze. The screen was locked and the controls were completely unresponsive. I tried the hard reset (MENU + SELECT for 6 seconds) and my shiny white music hero began to reboot. Relief overcame me as I watched the LCD light up with the Apple Logo. But then the unimaginable happened. I'd read about it many times in forums, blog posts and fairytales, but I'd never imagined it would ever happen to me. The Sad ipod icon showed it's ugly, 1G, cross-eyed face.
As gutting as it is when tech dies on you, this way more than that. My ipod is my companion when I'm on my own. It's my stereo when I'm at home. I need it. I definitely needed it before my four hour train journey to the south.
So I went the weekend without personal audio. I decided to forget about it until I got home. I drank away my sorrows with Brighton's £4 pints of lager. And then today, well rested and just about recovered from my hangover, I got the opportunity to plug in the ipod and see what I could do.
It wasn't looking good. My Powerbook wouldn't even recognise the ipod. All i had was a little white box that chugged away in cycles of sad icon face and reboot. I've tried for hours tonight to fix it, going through pages of support manuals, forums and blogs and nothing I've found has worked. Finally my frustration got the better of me. I picked up the corpse of my old friend and banged it hard against the table. It was then, just before I threw it against the wall, that I noticed the screen had changed to something I hadn't seen in a while: the menu.
It's fixed. It's actually properly working again. I'm back on listening terms with my old pal and it feels good.
For tha sake of the search engines I'm going to clarify this. If you have a sad ipod icon you can fix it by hitting it hard. I'm not sure if this is the first fix I'd try if ever something like this happened to anything else I own, like my Powerbook, for instance, but it's certainly a viable last resort. It worked for me.
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