BBC – Radio 1 – Red Nose Day 2009
February 27, 2009
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Day out at the London Eye
January 8, 2008
Again, very old news but they are worthy of an entry. It was my brother’s 28th birthday (December 2006) and I decided to take him and my Mum and Dad out for the day. We had a meal lined up and a boat trip down the Thames. We also have tickets for the London Eye. Have a look at some of the pics I took of the Eye itself: Read more
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My experience of the UK flooding in 2007
January 8, 2008
I thought I’d post my experience of the major floods that hit the UK last Summer. This was written on 20th July 2007:
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Day out at Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007
January 4, 2008
Last one from the ‘old news box’…
My brother and I went down to Goodwood Festival of Speed 2007 near Chicester for the middle day (Saturday 23rd June 2007). We were up early as we thought we’d either get lost like we normally do or we’d get stuck in major traffic. But the journey down was a doddle (apart from a little tour of a roundabout or two) and it’s was dead quiet. The flyer said to look out for signs to the event but we couldn’t see them though we did work it out in the end and rolled into the field/car park close to the top and thus the entrance. So a good start.
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Day out at the Red Bull Air Race 2007 London
January 3, 2008
More old photos and more old news but an entry nevertheless:
My brother and I enjoyed the Red Bull Air Race on Sunday 29th July 2007. We were up at the crack of dawn, missed the first train out of Edenbridge so drove to Redhill to get up to London. Tube was fine and we found it to be fairly quiet when we first got there (35k turned up in the end, they say). We had bought standing tickets on the South of the river where we could see the end of the ‘track’ and a big screen showing the whole thing.
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Day out at Wimbledon tennis championship 2007
January 3, 2008
A couple more ‘event reports’ from last year…
My brother and I went on the first Friday of the Wimbledon tennis championships (6th July 2007). We’ve never been before but it was great and we’re hoping to go next year (centre court here we come 
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Mind-altering media
May 11, 2007
Another good article from New Scientist was ‘Mind-altering media’. This is something that touches me personally as I’ve worked in the computer games industry. Myself, I find it very hard to believe that players and viewers of violent videogames and movies make for violent people. I think if you’re violent it will come up regardless of experiencing modern media. What I don’t like to see is violent games sold to underage children, someone somewhere needs to take responsibility for misselling these games. You can’t let a 12 year old play an 18 certificate game! A child will imitate, far more than an adult, what they experience, if they interact with a violent game then they are more likely to copycat the experience in real-life.
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How to make better decisions
May 11, 2007
Another interesting article from New Scientist, ‘How to make better decisions’. It’s a top ten list and I’ve written some highlights from article below:
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Acetaldehyde
February 21, 2007
It’s a very, very bad thing.
I’m a regular reader of New Scientist, it’s possibly my favourite magazine – it’s fantastic! Last week’s was no exception. One article was particularly interesting and shocked me a little bit. I discovered that this thing called acetaldehyde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetaldehyde) is very nasty. Acetaldehyde basically is produced by your liver as it breaks down ethanol and causes, among other things, the infamous “hangover”. But there is so much more to it. If you drink, smoke or have bad dental hygiene read on…
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