http://sandy.ninjahosting.com Random shenanigans. Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:03:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a state of punctures in November on my commuter/winter bike ... I decided to bin the summer tyres I had on there in favour of something a bit tougher. Looking around, most places wanted 20 notes a tyre for anything decent ... however wiggle had some tyres made by Vittoria ... http://sandy.ninjahosting.com/2008/01/30/vittoria-rubino-tech-tyre/ Now I don't use much gas, being a "cold" person I only put on the heating if someone is coming round to visit, or I'm going to be in for more than a few hours (being in bed doesn't count). However I do use a fair bit of electricity, due to ... http://sandy.ninjahosting.com/2008/01/11/project-1-energy-saving/ I just checked my blog to see I haven't written any posts since October ... okay I guess that could be some kind of New Years Resolution, keep the blog going. I went to The Hoog for Hogmanay, which was basically a Celidh/Big party in the assembly rooms. It was a ... http://sandy.ninjahosting.com/2008/01/02/2008/ No I'm not talking about the postal strike, according to wordpress I haven't updated this since August ... pfff! So what I have been up to? Hmm good question. I went to watch the MTB world championships in Fort William last month, it was a great laugh, camped illegally, did the ... http://sandy.ninjahosting.com/2007/10/27/long-time-no-post/ Last week I started my new job as a Software Engineer at a company called DataCash. They are mostly involved in CNP bank card processing. The entirety of last week was mostly taken up with training, given my pretty solid background in development environments I found most of the tasks ... http://sandy.ninjahosting.com/2007/08/15/new-job/ Okay, getting very slack at writing posts here. 2 months is probably a record. So whats been going on? In short: I'm a year older Traveling to Poland next week for the stage race I have a exciting new job and am currently working through my notice period Oli, Chris and I came third ... http://sandy.ninjahosting.com/2007/07/13/what-is-this-blog-thing-again/ As some of you may know, I have entered a 6 day mountain biking event that crosses the border of Poland and the Czech Republic numerous times, goes through some caves and will generally be pretty damn hard. To be honest I have never trained for anything before really, ... http://sandy.ninjahosting.com/2007/05/16/training-montage/ Finally, after months of wrangling with solicitors, faffing with DIY and getting my clothes washed for me in the interim, I have finally moved into my new place. I have been living here 2 weeks now, and I have to say - its awesome. I am really enjoying the peace and ... http://sandy.ninjahosting.com/2007/04/04/moved-in/ Yeah, basically the limited spare time I have available isn't enough, and I'm trying to do everything and not doing anything particularly well! Decided to take the day off decorating, and went for a easy mountain bike ride round one of my favorite local loops, however the weather had really taken ... http://sandy.ninjahosting.com/2007/03/10/busy/ This guy has some rage issues but what he says is quite funny and so true One thing PC users can do that Mac users can't :-) http://sandy.ninjahosting.com/2007/03/07/comparison-of-mac-and-pc-users/