Not quite a black tie and red carpet affair, but was still great to be a part of it! What am I talking about? New James Bond film, latest Pirates of the Caribbean? Nope. The Man Who Cycled the World I headed through to Glasgow to the BBC offices at…
Mark on TV
Mark Beaumont round the world cycle documentary is coming soon to BBC2 Scotland. For those of you who don’t know, I voluntarily did the website for his world record breaking circumnavigation. I was reminded to post this as I’ve just seen an trailer for it on TV! How cool is…
Upgraded Blog
You probably don’t notice it – although it is supposed to be a wee bit faster – but I’m using the latest newly upgrade version of WordPress. Lots of changes from an Admin point of view behind the scenes making it easier to organise things. Does this mean I’ll post…
Mysterious goings on in Wardlaw Street
Not my tiling efforts this time – much more sinister! Evening News Article BBC News
World Record follow up
I was googling to see if Mark’s World Record was mentioned anywhere else and came across the official Guinness announcements for the week of 16th to 22nd February 2008. Amongst them all is Mark Beaumont of course, but see what other weird records were broken that week. “Farthest ear sling-shot”…
Mark has finished!
194 days and 8 hours by my reckoning is all it took Mark Beaumont to cycle out of Paris in a sort of Easterly direction and cycle back into Paris from the west. 18,400 miles or so in between. Still awaiting official confirmation but that should break the world record…
Fancy a holiday in France?
Friends of ours have bought and are doing up an amazing Villa in the spiritual Carcassonne area of France. Simply register with them online to be in with a chance of winning 3 nights for two people and you could be the first ever guests at La Villa de Mazamet…
Cool web search
I had the need to do a bit of mind mapping the other day and was reminded of a cool visual search engine called KartOO. Rather than a boring list of result like you get from Google, it supplies a pretty picture with most relevant links in the middle and…
LOLCats
Isn’t the internet great… The latest bizarre web phenomenon to amuse me was pointed out by a work colleague and its called lolcats. For an explanation head to the lolcats wikipedia entry. Now you know what it’s all about try www.lolcats.com for size. Funnier than Cats in Sinks and almost…
Another lorry crash story
Chicken lorry crash causes chaos A specialist team has been brought in to catch the chickens Much of central Scotland was brought to a standstill this morning after a lorry containing 3,000 chickens crashed on the A80, leaving birds running loose. The lorry jack-knifed on the southbound carriageway, near Haggs,…