Even more pictures…

The beautiful mountains of the Drome. The housemates. The kayakers, the mussel bbq.

More photos from the Drome

My brithday flight in a glider above the mountains.

Escape to Escoulin

Just got back from a fantastic week in the Drome Valley, a couple of hours drive from Lyon in France. We stayed in a friend’s house in Escoulin, a tiny village in the mountains. We did a huge amount of eating, siesta’ing and drinking which was long overdue. We also had to fish the occassional [...]

London Triathlon – lots of fun

I competed in the London Triathlon this weekend which was awesome. Having trained for a whole seven days I went into the race with a simple aim: to finish. As it turned out I did OK. As expected the swim (in the Royal Albert Docks) was a real killer. I was only doing the super-sprint [...]

Offshore your own job

Very amusing article just came my way from David Rowan at the Times online. The article is a light-heatered look at the growing trend of global offshoring.
The best part is a where he reports that a software developer known only as Nonac recently confessed that, unbeknown to his employer, he had hired a developer in [...]

Shaping the media with mobiles

Another interesting article on citizen reporters, this time from the BBC’s Torin Douglas.

backpack panick attack

As anyone who lives in London knows, Thursday is now affectionately know as “bomb day”. If we make it through to Friday alive, then Londoners are sure to be found in the pubs early to celebrate. OK, I’m exagerating, but it is true that there is a heightened tension on Thursdays at the moment, perhaps [...]

Triathalon

I’m doing the London Triathalon this Saturday. Expecting to struggle in the open water swim part of the race. I’m only doing the super sprint (400m swim, 10km bike, 1.5km run) but my fist swim in about two years was in the Dorset sea last weekend. If there are no posts after this weekend it [...]

Dorset rain

Phew. I feel a bit overly serious after that last post. As a complete change of tone, here I am with Andy on a jolly British camping trip to Dorset. It pissed it down but we loved it.

Zambian AIDS relief effort

In my last post I mentioned the inspirational Chief Charlie Kambuka from Zambia, whom I met recently. Here he is, pictured with one of his fundraising successes.
According to the AIDS charity AVERT there are 630,000 children orphaned because of AIDS in Zambia. They comment that the traditional mechanism for the care of vulnerable children, the [...]