http://blog.elencher.com Spouting random rubbish for anyone bored enough to listen. Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:48:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Any excuse to buy another bike At the beginning of May, I finally decided to buy a new mountain bike. For a while, I had been toying with the idea of getting a new road bike as well, so that I could ride into work and back a couple of ... http://blog.elencher.com/?p=31 I have a new toy. Yes, after wandering into tax-free Dixons at Gatwick Airport, I had a mess around with the demo version of one of these things, and decided to buy one on the spot. It's the 4G version - the one with the 4GB solid state ... http://blog.elencher.com/?p=30 Has my first taste, today, of the Laser dinghy. I've been itching to have a proper go at one of these for a while, but the winter weather has never been quite calm enough to risk taking one out - after all, in stronger wind, if you make a ... http://blog.elencher.com/?p=29 It's been a couple of months since I last wrote anything... partying and then going away over Christmas kind of got in the way, and I've also had a very busy January at work. Added to this, I've had two friends ask me to help them move house in ... http://blog.elencher.com/?p=27 I intended to finish this post right after seeing the film the other week, but I've been so busy to blog about anything for the past few weeks that it kind of got stuck in draft form... oh well, better late than never. So, Vron has been introducing me to ... http://blog.elencher.com/?p=25 I've just spent the last weekend getting my RYA Level 2 sailing certification at the DSWC on Millwall Dock. It's been a top weekend, whizzing around the dock doing various exercises - man overboard, mooring, following a course around bouys, follow the leader.. having to do my capsize drill ... http://blog.elencher.com/?p=24 So last week, after a company p*ssup involving much champagne on the top floor of our office, I decided to lose my balance and fall down the top flight of stairs. Result: One dislocated ankle and a whole weeks worth of hobbling and pain. Needless to say, I decided not to ... http://blog.elencher.com/?p=23 So last weekend I went to Devon for the first time in my life. I'm amazed that it's taken me 33 years to get there, given the outdoorsey sort of person that I am. I think having a childhood spoiled with the Yorkshire Dales, the Lakes and Northumbria ... http://blog.elencher.com/?p=22 I was chatting with my Spanish tutor, Agu, last week about Moorish Spain and the Alhambra, and she mentioned that she had seen an advert for an exhibition in London which had Moorish - and specifically Iberian Moorish - items on show. We agreed to go see it this ... http://blog.elencher.com/?p=20 Enabling a new breed of terrorism... hack the departures board, and redirect all passengers to the wrong flights... http://blog.elencher.com/?p=19