December 2008

Friday Fun – Shocking Airplane Landing Videos

19 December 2008

I want to go to this place.  Can you say “Wayne’s World”?  WPvideo 1.10 Whilst it doesn’t look quite so impressive from the cockpit, checkout how little runway is left by the time they stop! WPvideo 1.10 And given how close you can get to the runway, it was fairly obvious that people would end [...]

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Before and After the Zone Diet & Crossfit

15 December 2008

This was a hard post to do as I’ve actually not got that many photos of me from a few years ago, but here are 2 pairs of before and after photos, I’ll let you work out which is which! Both the before pictures are from 2006, before I’d heard of Crossfit or the Zone [...]

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Friday (un)Fun – The making of fur coats – Must see!

12 December 2008

It’s rare I do a post like this. I’m not a raving leftie. I’m not an animal rights advocate. Actually, I do believe in animal testing… for serious life saving drugs that is, not for cosmetics. I don’t have a problem with wearing leather or suede, in fact I can even condone that because leather [...]

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Work Update – All change in the New Year

8 December 2008

The new year will see another big change for me work wise. For the past 4 months I’ve been working away from home Monday – Friday in London. Actually this has been 2 engagements, the first was through a small consultancy into British Telecom and the second was for ITV.com . Both were interesting projects, [...]

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Friday Fun – Bohemian Rhapsody with football (soccer) players names

5 December 2008

This is genius, more for the uk audience perhaps (WFS), it’s a bit quiet though: WPvideo 1.10

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Yorkshire Open Olympic Weightliftng Competition

1 December 2008

On Saturday I went to Mytholmroyd in Yorkshire to compete in the Yorkshire and North East Counties Open Weightlifting Championships, officiated by BWLA (the British Weight Lifting Association). There were 6 of us in total from Crossfit, including 2 others who were lifting in their debut competition too. If you’re read my last post on [...]

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