October 2008

Friday Fun – Funny Dog and Cat Pictures

31 October 2008

Just some very funny pictures today. I think the last one is deserving of a caption competition… Tee hee, that’s a classic.

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Bethnal Green Weightlifting Club

29 October 2008

I thought it was about time I uploaded the couple of photo’s I took of the Weightlifting Club I go to at Bethnal Green, London. This club has been in existence a massive 80 years, since 1928 and has produced literally hundreds of Olympic Weight Lifting champions over the years. It’s located at 229 Bethnal [...]

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Guy Fawkes Fireworks Night is Coming

27 October 2008

I love this time of year, well the closet pyromaniac in me does. I wrote about the Guy Fawkes night poem: Remember, Remember, the 5th of November last year, which gives some interesting insights into the political back drop of this festival. Personally I like to understand a bit about the background of why things [...]

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Friday Fun – Can sexy girls get away with more than plain Janes?

24 October 2008

Can you get free stuff if you look hot? Are we men that fickle that we a swayed by the twinkling eye of a pretty girl? A great idea for a video and I love the brazenness of the girl. I thought the bus test was a bit biased as she didn’t ask when dolled [...]

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How to break into the IT industry

21 October 2008

I was recently asked for advice on how someone could get that all important first IT job? Like any industry, all IT jobs require 2 things: training and experience, and it’s the experience part that’s hard to get. It’s catch 22, how do you get a job to get experience, without having the experience in [...]

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Friday Fun – More Olympic Weigtht Lifting Out takes

16 October 2008

This first video I took at the same West Wythenshawe Olympic weightlifting comp a few weeks ago. You saw in the previous video Josh Farghaly doing a very impressive 110kg Snatch. Well this is him a little later having a go at beating his own British youth record by Clean and Jerking 135kg. It’s seemingly [...]

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Olympic Weightlifting Video from last weekend

13 October 2008

I got a better extraction of the video footage from the Olympic Weightlifting mini-competition at West Wythenshawe 2 weekends ago. I didn’t have video of everyone lifting this time so have put together a 5 minute video of mostly just my lifts. WPvideo 1.10 Whilst it feels somewhat narcissistic to study footage of myself lifting [...]

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Friday Fun – Lightning Strikes

10 October 2008

There’s something about lightning, it’s a very primordial energy that is simultaneously unpredictably dangerous and yet enticing.  Whenever there’s a thunderstorm outside, it’s always fun to sit and watch the lighting and wonder what it hit. Personally I find these lightning videos fascinating: Lightning hits the beach just 100 feet away (warning, bad language!) WPvideo [...]

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More Photos from West Wythenshawe Weightlifting Comp

8 October 2008

I posted on Monday about the mini olympic weightlifting competition at West Wythenshawe. Here are some more photo’s of the lifters from Crossfit Manchester, courtesy of my 7 year old daughter, the photographer: West Wythenshawe – Olympic Weightlifting from Crossfit – Larraine Bev Jane (with no Y of course) Jo O Sharron with an emo [...]

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Olympic Weightlifting, a Weekend Sport

6 October 2008

Back in June I entered my first local club Olympic Weightlifting mini-competition at West Wythenshawe, Manchester.  This weekend we did it again.  It’s not really a competition, as there’s such a broad range of ages and weights that it’s unlikely you’d find anyone in the same category. So really it’s just for fun and practice [...]

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