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Erm that’s not him in the pic above.
Anyway, the New York Times has a good article on how to motivate yourself to push further if you’re a keen swimmer.

Remember the mixtape? Hours spent crafting a cassette with tunes from the radio for a mate or girlfriend back in the days? Well new technology means the mixtape ain’t necessarily dead.

There’s the USB version - pictured above - which is pretty neat, and which allows you to hand a cassette-shaped mix over to someone you [...]

Here is a list of things which have me peeved of late….

my iPhone is dead. Whilst in Austin, I left it on the bed beside a bottle of this sweet sickly sugary sh*t they were giving away free, the bottle cap wasn’t on properly, and I turned round 5 minutes later to find my iPhone [...]

Sunday in Austin, and our last day there. South by Southwest had pretty well finished by now - the streets were a lot quieter, the convention center had been completely tidied, and the doors were locked, and that was left was flyers for bands nailed to lampposts. This was a day off for us guys, [...]

Ok, Saturday - day 5 at South by Southwest! Again, more editing in the hotel room, and then at night, I went to meet up with the guys. They’d spent the day at a pool and BBQ party in the country which made me insanely jealous, but apparently there weren’t that many good looking [...]

Well I have fallen waaaay behind with this sorry. Obviously I’m writing this after I got back to Belfast, but it’s just been manic since I got back, and I’m just in the middle of my first lot of days off in three weeks (unless you count one day off in Austin). Anyways, I’m now [...]

Day 3 at South by Southwest baby! I can honestly say the weather has been brilliant this week - it’s been around 95° every day, which is very nice.
Thursday then was to have the same pattern as the next couple of days for me really. Rigsy, our presenter, Feargal and Jim, our cameraman went out [...]

Day two at South by Southwest! And I have got a bit behind with this so have some catching up to do!
Wednesday was our first day filming - so we went off to a Belfast / Nashville Sister City party to hear and film some Northern Irish acts performing. The main attraction for a lot of people [...]

So on Monday, we arrived in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest 2008 - it’s the biggest music industry gathering in the world, with over 1700 bands attending and playing showcases during the week. We’re staying at a hotel a bit out of the centre, which is slightly annoying, as it’s a 10 minute taxi [...]

We have a new snazzy shopping centre in Belfast! It is called Victoria Square and it is quite big. G and I went down and checked it out on the opening day on Thursday and it was crazy bonkers with millions of people. I just wanted to wander around and get a feel for the place but [...]