Ultimate Obstacle Course

Posted by liam on January 29, 2007 4:00 PM

Anyone feeling bored of going to the gym or tired of their new years resolutions to keep fit. Take a look at this chap on this crazy obstacle course. The guy actually manages the lot, gotta admire that.

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Dogs? This postman dodges bullets

Posted by liam on January 29, 2007 12:00 PM

Spotted this story in the Liverpool Daily Post - Introducing Morale Man, While dogs and badly-written addresses are the biggest challenges facing most postal workers, one Wallasey man is braving bombs, roadside explosions and enemy fire, delivering letters to British troops serving in Basra in southern Iraq.

Corporal Pete McFarlane, 34, who is serving with 1st Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment is the unit postal NCO, known to his fellow soldiers as the "morale man".

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The stars are your limit, astronaut tells students

Posted by liam on January 27, 2007 2:00 PM

Always been a bit of a Space Cadet, so I was gutted that I missed out on going to see Major General Charles F Bolden when he visited Spaceport at Seacombe Ferry. For anyone who's interested in Space travel, he joined NASA back in 1980, he was one of if not the first black mission controller, has clocked more than 680 hours in space, and in 1994 this was the commander of the Space Shuttle Discovery (the historic first joint U.S./Russian Space Shuttle mission involving the participation of a Russian Cosmonaut as a mission specialist crew member).

General Bolden visited the Spaceport at Seacombe Ferry before going to Birkenhead Sixth Form College to speak to students about his career, and encouraged them to never let other people tell them what they cannot do.

Maj Gen Bolden told students in Wirral: “I want everyone to realise you should never let people tell you what you can and can’t do.

“I didn’t apply for Nasa the first time round, because I thought you had to be a tall, blond, blue-eyed fighter pilot, I was too chicken.

When he first entered the shuttle programme, he said he felt frustrated: “I walked into Nasa mission control and there were no black controllers.

“There are now. I guess I bit my lip at the time, but I learned it was not Nasa’s fault. Blacks just didn't apply, so when I talk to young people, I tell them to get with it.”

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Heartwarming Blog

Posted by liam on January 18, 2007 5:53 PM

Alrite it is probably not very good business practice to advertise other people's blogs, but i'm not getting paid so I ain't worried.

Spotted this story in the Liverpool Echo about The family of a little girl who has a rare form of cancer, called Neuroblastoma, are keeping an internet diary of her struggle.

Bloody good read though as you'd expect of the subject area it is heart breaking at times. I do think it's a bloody good site and worth taking a look. You can visit her website, www.babyemma.co.uk here

Also if you would like more information about the illness Wikipedia's article is probably a good starting point

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This Christmas i never had a Wii

Posted by liam on January 16, 2007 10:00 PM

Ok some of my long term fans of this blog (both of them, hi mum hi dad) may well be wondering "Liam why has it been so long since you gave us a bit of gossip or insight into the latest techie news, what's going on".

Like I previously stated I got a nice present recently, three months subscription to World of Warcraft. For anyone who has a life or just doesn't know, World of Warcraft is a computer game which you play over the internet. Its an entire world, full of villages and shops, but also a computer game so it's full of dragons and monsters. You get to play around with all this, when you log on you can become a little pretend person such as a knight or whatever your geeky heart desires. It's the perfect game for when the weather turns cold, and you want to stay in and waste away your hours talking to fellow geeks and trying to slay pretend monsters on your computer.

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Glorious return of Mr Geek

Posted by liam on January 11, 2007 5:00 PM

Been away from the blog for a long time now, and neglecting my poor long suffering readers (both of them in fact). So much so that the All Powerful Tyrannical Overlord (or APTO for short, or just my wonderful friendly manager if he's reading this) said to me "the people need to know about the quirky and the geeky, update your blog or its going".

But Liam where have you been I hear you cry? Well unfortunately i got trapped in a magical geeky paradise called World of Warcraft which i would not recommend to any geek who values their free time, or indeed their sanity. So first things first, lets give you a bit of an update on the weird and wonderful stories that have been flying around the internet recently.

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