then I remembered this beat poem from Tim Minchin… so good that they made it into an awesome animation.

This video pretty much says everything I’d want to… 100x better.

Watch it:

Luke Williams could do with some content, or something too.

Personally I’m working on a lot of cool things in 2012:

• A TED talk at TEDxHull in Feb
• Cycling John O’Groats to Lands End
• Doing the 3 peaks challenge (hopefully in under 24hrs)

I’ve also got a new years resolution: not to eat cadbury chocolate fingers one pack at a time.

I’ve accepted an offer to merge SocialTech into RT Media.
(click for full press release and photo)

It’s taking some re-adjustment to get into the whole working in an office thing, plus they’re based in Wimborne so I’m cycling 20 miles a day (or getting the slowest bus known to man)… but that’s good too, it helps with the ambition to do JOG to LE on ym bike so I’ll bump up the training while commuting. WIN

I’m wondering if I actually have trained my body to the point it needs one energy drink a day – that can’t be good? I’m too sluggish for words unless I have the combo above… but I don’t like this legal high balancing act in the morning.

Time to try and stop, I think I’m going to start (now that I’ve retired from DJing) getting up early (6/7am) and working out first thing each day.

Can you get addicted to taurine? I know caffeine has addictive traits in that you suffer from withdrawal symptoms if you don’t have a hit.

Hmmm… damn these drinks companies…

What a great bit of (chalk) graffiti

The radio show is coming to an end as well… actually I’m handing over the reigns, but for me 12 years of weekly radio shows is coming to an end.

I’ve had some great times and met some groovy people through djing.

Yes I’ll miss it and I’m not saying never again to the odd gig (in fact I have one in nov).

Thanks to all the clubs for letting me play, the promoters for booking me, all the door staff, bar staff and other club workers I’ve met along the way… the biggest thank you to all the clubbers who’ve danced, cheered and waved their arms in the air along with me (not so much the whoop whoopers).

EDIT: Facebook event for anthemia reunion link

Which worked for a bit, but then I started feeling a bit down and rubbish later on…

I battled on (being busy n all) until finally conceding defeat and going home for some proper food.

It’s only now looking back I realize how blatantly my poor snack choice had affected me, physically and mentally.

Reflecting on things, when I felt rubbish earlier, I started asking some soul searching questions…

Then after good food had kicked in a LOT of things fell into place.

It’s too easy to forget how simple choices can have a big impact, how our environment and the things we do to our body affect us physically and emotionally.

So, i’m going to be making some big changes… i’ll be writing them here as it seems the right place.

And although it’s more public, it somehow feels more personal a space than an update or note on facebook.

There are a few things i should of done a while ago, which I’ve been postponing that I think, finally, i’m ready to do.

Hold tight.

As with all Critical Mass rides, we’ll be starting out at 6pm on the last Friday of the month (March 25th)

Full details are available on the Facebook event page, please come along and invite your friends.

• Join the Spartans for their annual Christmas Swim – DONE!

(click the pic for more photos)

Mum joined me for the swim, I think she’s probably not as used to the sea temperature as I am… very proud anyway.

BUT it wasn’t the actual spartans swim… no, for some reason, there were 2 swims.

Well, we arrived, it was cold, we saw one group about to go in, so we joined them. The spartans may of had the mayor and a tv crew but this lot were kind enough to let us join them. They had a bigger group, all I can find out is a news item on McMillan news page (dated 3/11/10) and a justgiving page

If you are these people, or know them, do get in touch. I’d love to see both groups swim together next year, it would of been nearly 50 people!

UPDATE: think I have located a fellow swimmer on FB, have emailed to try and locate the video!

This whole people burning the Koran (Qur’an whatever) thing is hilarious!Let’s take a quick score card:

they protest that someone is going to burn a book…

by burning an effigy of the guy.

Umm hey Muslim dudes, what did you do to the Satanic verses again?

Burnt it

What happened at that protest in indonesia, you know the one with the whole “christians can’t use the word allah as god” thing, with the crosses and bibles that… um

Oh yeah, you burnt that too

And ANY time bush sneezed in a way that vaguely sounded like he might bomb somewhere?

You burnt flags

So in summary, paraphrasing the almighty Monty Python, TOUGH TITTIES TO YOU.

It’s a book, get over it. Feel free to burn any books I love, it’s just paper, I’m pretty sure dawkins or any other great authors would just laugh if you burnt one of their books.