Sunday, July 15, 2007

Wow, what a crash!

The commentators, Phil and Paul were just commenting on how dangerous this downhill was when 2 riders, Michael Rogers (an Aussie) & Arroyo came together & into a barrier & one went over the edge.
They are ok fortunately. Arrogo larded in a tree. Rogers lost some time as his bike needed replacing.

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Posted by: Jethro | 11:57 PM |

Happiness is...

Big projector screen-surround sound, lazy boy chair, Tour de France.
oh, & a tablet PC and a wireless internet connection.
l am lazing in my chair, sipping my drink while watching the tour. Today is a massive climb. It's the étape 8 - Le Grand-Bornand Tignes 165 km stage. I am really enjoying the four this year. since we got the Tr aerial properly tuned in we can watch SBS, our premier channel for Soccer and the tour de France.

Having just bought a new tablet Pc, I am enjoying learning how to make it work well. I wrote this entire blog post using the handwriting technique on the screen of the laptop.

The other thing I had fun trying today was the voice recognition feature in Vista. I was able to train my PC to listen to my voice & do as I told it to do today.

At the moment I am watching the leaders on the first major Category I climb of the day. There is a frenetic pace being set.

The greet they about the internet today is being able to check real time the actual time differences between the groups on the Mountain using the Tour de France website.

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Posted by: Jethro | 11:27 PM |

Wednesday, May 09, 2007

So much stuff, football, fitness and fun

I can't believe that I haven't posted on here since April 18.
I am supposed to be developing the new replacement www.spyjournal.biz website but as you can probably guess I haven't.

I have been flat out with fun stuff. Football and personal training are keeping the fitness improvement happening. I have my first game this weekend. The last 3 weeks I have run the boundary - that gets you covering several kms in a game! I shall probably run the same in the game on Saturday where I will be playing forward pocket off the bench for the Strathpine Swans Div 1 reserve grade.

I have also been flat out with business, our software development team is growing with 2 new staff in recent times. We are looking for Excel work to keep one guy going and web development work is always welcome.

The kids are a blast. I am making plenty of time to play board and card games with them. Its great to see them excited about playing games. New games of recent times include Carcassonne, Heroscape and Munchkins.

Jude and I have also relaxed in front of a few movies and quite a bit of some cool tv shows. We have nearly finished watching My Name is Earl Season 2, started The Unit Season 1, Heroes Season 1 and nearly finished Stargate Atlantis Season 3. Dr Who Season 3 is about to start coming online so we can get watching that also.

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Posted by: Jethro | 7:44 PM |