In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men and women promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to…
Technology helps make exercise fun
A big part of my training for the Tough Mudder event we are doing in May has been to run. God didn’t gift me with a running body and so to enter…
Onwards and upwards
With the May deadline fast approaching the Shard looks nearly finished. Apparently the final bit will be brought in by helicopter so I will be keeping an eye out but being a…
Bandwidth Bandits prepare for battle
On Monday sees the team (thirteen of us) complete a 10 KM run in preparation for Tough Mudder being held in Kettering in May. Our team, Bandwidth Bandits, have been training for…
Car technology moves apace
I have just returned from a short ski holiday, and as is usual I hired a car at Munich Airport (home to BMW) to get me back and forth to the ski…
The 15 year plan
When I was fifteen I remember standing in my bedroom and looking at myself in the mirror deciding on what I was going to do with my life. At the age of…
3D has a future
While it has been sometime since we have seen a big leap in technology, such as the development of the personal computer, mobile phone or even mode of transport, I am amazed…
New Year, new car
Over the Christmas break I decided that it was time to chop in the Audi and get a bit more of a practical car. Having spent most of the week driving around…
Butchery
The other week I was invited along to another one of Daylesford’s excellent cookery courses held at their headquarters in Kingham, Gloucestershire. This time it wasn’t so much about cooking and rather…
Credit where credit is due
If you have ever read any of my older posts you will know that I am the proud owner of an Audi and have many times sung it’s praises. When you own…
Olympics sell its soul
Has anyone noticed that some of the global Olympic sponsors are not the type of companies you would associate with a global sporting event? How can for example Coca-Cola or McDonalds, which…
Shard continues to grow
Latest update from London Bridge shows The Shard steadily taking shape as workers work around the clock I assume to finish in time for the Olympics. I reckon they are probably at…
Augmented Reality
This week saw the very latest in drone technology make its way into the Fluidata offices, courtesy of our Sales Manager, Michael. The Parrot AR Drone can only be described as a…
A changed perspective
So last Friday saw me making my way to rural Somerset to collect my bank destroying, rib crushing, scary, horse like (read previous post!), and irrefutably handsome car. I was rather nervous…
Progress Report
So I am painfully close to taking delivery of the Atom, but it looks like I will be missing the summer and taking delivery about exactly the time I can’t do anything…