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I’ve mentioned Iko, the excellent band that a friend of ours is in, before. The lead singer of the band recently posted an message on his MySpace Blog about filesharing. I spent some time writing a response and wanted to copy my thoughts here. The full thread can be found on MySpace here. Ultimately, Kieran […]
Now here’s a thing that’s quite contrary. I’m not a very trusting person, while at the same time, I tend to believe what people tell me. I think it’s all down to experience. If someone says, for example, that they’ve got tickets to go see the Spice Girls at Wembley stadium. As long as it’s […]
Bit of a plug…the BikeRadar web site is really taking off and if full of useful info. I was just looking through it and I keep coming across more and more useful stuff. Like: A guide to chainsets A Q&A about chronic fatigue (which I MIGHT have been suffering from earlier in the year) Stuff […]
This is VERY exciting. My work have set up a cycle-to-work scheme. This is a government initiative designed to encourage people to cycle to work. Which I do anyway, but it’s still a real treat. What happens is this. I go out bike shopping to buy myself some new wheels to ride to work on, […]
So, I’m getting pretty into this cycling lark, but there are a few things that still baffle me. Cycling, like many other hobbies, has a language of its own, and experienced participants use it freely without really thinking about poor beginner like me who don’t know their cranksets from their cassettes and their bar ends […]
I read an interesting statistic a while back that basically said that if you commute by bike in the UK, despite our highly changable weather, you’ll only cycle in the rain 12 times a year, on average. Hard to believe, but, today I cycled in proper rain for the first time in AGES. It’s the […]
50 million quid for improving cycle routes is up for grabs! Two quick things. One is that there’s this competition going on where four projects have the chance to win £50 million of lottery money in a public vote. One of the projects is being put forward by Sustrans (a sustainable transport organisation) to improve […]
A new thread starts. Having bought a house I’m learning something else new – DIY! Sally bought me a book as a gift called “You Can Do It!” (It’s a B&Q book and B&Q’s advertising slogan used to be “You can do it when you B&Q it!”). This thread will be the ups and down, […]