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Bristol, UK - 2005

Mont Blanc Summit via 3 Monts route

Posted on December 29, 2009 - Filed Under News, Photos | Leave a Comment

Last September I completed the Mont Blanc Summit via the 3 Monts route… Belated post as I only just realized the post was in draft and not published…

The above was recorded with a Forerunner 405, unfortunately it ran out on the way back, hence the red waypoint on the route back. You can view the [...]

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Water

Posted on May 15, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Water, originally uploaded by Joel_Richards.

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GPS altitude reading from Kala pathar

Posted on April 26, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

GPS altitude reading from Kala pathar, originally uploaded by Joel_Richards.

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Panorama of Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, etc

Posted on April 25, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Panorama of Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, etc, originally uploaded by Joel_Richards.

Quick panorama added, super hi-res to come later (50megapixels+)!

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131 reasons why flickr shouldn’t allow images in comments: image awards

Posted on March 18, 2009 - Filed Under News, Photos | 4 Comments

If you don’t use flickr this post won’t make much sense…. anyhow, I’ve noticed more and more images seem to be bombarded with ‘awards’. These awards are copy/pasted generally into comments of photos added to certain groups. These awards are usually awesome glitter text gifs or cats being blinded with lens flare that clutter genuine/interesting [...]

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Everest Charity Trek

Posted on March 11, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Some of my posts recently have been related to an Everest/Nepal trip I’m heading on for the first 3 weeks of April, so here’s a bit of context.
I’m heading up to Mt Everest Base Camp in April with my bro & dad for charity, we’re funding all the trip costs ourselves so any money donated [...]

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Paras 10 – P Company multi-terrain running race

Posted on February 17, 2009 - Filed Under News, Running | 5 Comments

The second Parachute Regiment public run is taking place on Sunday 13th September 2009, Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire. This is the second year the event has been open to the public, and is part of the training for the Parachute Regiment selection course.
Options as follows:
10miles – Running with trainers
10miles – Running with a 35lb/15kg bergen [...]

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2009 Race season here we come!

Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

After doing my first race of 09 (Chessington 10km) I decided to look into future events…
Some possible 10K & half-marathons for 2009…

Sunday, 15 March 2009 – ASICS Fleet Pre-London Half-Marathon
Sunday, 29 March 2009 – Reading Half-Marathon
Sunday, 29 March 2009 – Brooklands 10k
Saturday, 4 April 2009 – Run Richmond Park 10K
Sunday, 19 April 2009 [...]

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jo.je Updated!

Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

I recently registered http://jo.je (A channel isles TLD for those who’re interested), I originally had a few projects listed on there and a short profile. I recently updated it with a more comprehensive version of personal projects of mine, with new logos.

The domain is primarily for hosting webapps, but also serves as a portfolio [...]

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The Twitter Effect

Posted on February 12, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Some people may have been victim to the Digg effect, Slashdotted, being stumble’d or now, more recently been affected by masses of hits from twitter.
Twitter has recently overtaken digg in traffic rank, according to alexa.com, with a reach of 0.2% at the time of writing.

There are various twitter users with hundreds of thousands of followers [...]

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