I just rerode the ride I did with Andrew U a while ago, but on my own, with thinner tyres and no asthma attack. I made it round in a bit more than half the time it took previously, though I did a slightly more direct start/end to the route.
It was nice riding […]
I’m writing this over my new wireless net connection. Oooh, get me…
[Update:] I appear to be sitting in my garden, connected to t’interwebnet. I think I like wireless.
As you’ll have noticed, I’m back from my holidays; a week in a caravan at Limefitt Park near Troutbeck in the Lake District. One of the best things about Limefitt, is the bridleway that runs through the site and over towards Kentmere, so I took my bike with us. I was limited in […]
Every year The Times produce a rich list, showing the richest people in the UK, the richest footballers, the richest actors, how much J.K. Rowling made from this book…
But where would you come on the Global Rich List? I am in the top 4.78% richest people in the world. There are 5,712,613,565 people […]
Mactually is away.
For anyone looking for details, here are some useful online resources:
Flickr - London Bomb Blasts pool photos
Wikipedia - 2005 London Bombing
BBC News - London Blasts: At a glance
Guardian News Blog
[Update] Chris’ parents were in london today, but they’re ok.
30,000 children die per day because of extreme poverty
That statistic in itself should make us want to do something, because it’s pretty shocking, but sometimes it’s hard to visualise numbers like that. Ann did some calculating:
I wanted to get a scale of how many children that really is… I thought grains of rice might […]
Fantastic opening to this year’s Tour de France, with Armstrong passing Ullrich, who started a minute ahead of him. Absolutely fantastic to watch.
3,584 km (2,227 miles), 21 stages, three mountaintop finishes, 74 km of individual time trials, a 67.5-km team time trial, and 20 Category 2, Category 1, and Hors Categorie climbs. “The Marathon, chess and NASCAR combined”. Le Tour starts tomorrow…
(Update (16/03/2006): Comments closed, bacause it was attracting loads of pr0n link comments. […]