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Russell McQuillan….
struggling with my camera memory at Belfast Spendmas
Top Gear Challenge – Edinburgh Castle to Buckingham Palace
After the success of our our first top gear challenge, we are going to do it all over again !!
Feb 27th at 9.07am
Edinburgh Castle to Buckingham Palace
First one there wins !!
Teams,
Road cars : Must stick to the speed limits and no sat navs allowed
Public transport : No taxi’s allowed
Plane : No commercial airlines allowed, you are welcome to fly yourself or hire a private jet !
Its on ! Bring it !
Are you up for the challenge ? Are you ready to join the adventure ?
This is an 18 and over event, perfect for leaders or explorers moving into network scouts.
There is further info on Facebook here
And a reg form here
Merry Christmas and Thanks
To all my readers,
To all my followers
To all my facebook friends
To all my human friends
To all I have humored, interested, educated and unintentionally offended
To all I have bored with my business and scouting related posts.
And to all I have flamed, I wish you a very Merry Christmas
Thanks for following !!
Here is to 2009, I shall leave you with two videos. The first is an idiot that cannot drive and the second is an ad that touches my heart every year !
Russell
Belfast Spendmas – A documentation process
This Saturday a bunch of us are getting together to hits the shops in Belfast but we won’t be spending any money……..
The plan is to photograph and document for future generations the busiest shopping day of the year in the capital city of Belfast. It’s a great free event put together using the power of twitter by Rob Elkin
Alan in Belfast writes about the event in his blog, his years of blogging about events and politics give him a polished writing style that I could only aspire to, so I suggest you read in more detail about the event over at alaninbelfast
The one thing I will add however it that it never fails to amaze me how much the power of the interwebs has grown over the years, this event was pulled together from nothing, a simple message on twitter at around 140 key strokes and a bunch of replies later we have an event any event management company would be envious off.
Dear Santa
Dear Santa,
I’m assuming you cannot get me the following
1. A fully pimped our off road defender
2. A mark 1 golf GTI
3. A mark 1 205 GTI
4. A mark 1 1961 cooper S
5. A Hi-Lux pick up
6. A GT3
7. A range rover sport, any year.
8. A date with Richard Hammond
So in absense of the above can I please have the following
1. Clarksons newest DVD
2. Top Gear uncovered DVD
3. A pair of combats for scouts (loads of pockets)
4. A one cup coffee decanter
Thank you, that is all
Russell
ps, ive been a good boy this year
Open Coffee Lisburn : Nearly a year on
It was last January that myself, Andrew Gribben and Simon McCartney decided that enough was enough and Lisburn should to earn its place on the global Open Coffee movement and start our own in Lisburn, days later we had our first meeting in Cafe Vic Ryn on the Moira road and it was born.
Things have changed alot over the last year, more and more people are coming to the meetings and with every new person the dynamic changes ever so slightly but always in a good way.
What started out as nearly a purely techy meeting, now has a good mix of tech, business, photography, news, politics and humour. As ever no agenda is set and who ever can make it shows up and the conversation flows from there.
Meteor projected Christmas advertising
The picture is hard to see but I noticed this on my way home from work today.
It’s just your standard MNO advert about coverage, it was broadcast from a white van across the street and at first I thought it was a rather expensive way to advertise a message but the more I thought about it the more it made sense.
The ad was on a wall that was very noticable to drivers stuck in traffic on lower baggot st heading out of Dublin. The prefect location for that time of day but also then it could be moved in the morning to catch people coming into town then in the evening as people are creature of habit and generally drive the same route each day they can target a different location the next evening.
As the building was empty I would imagion that there was no cash paid for the site so the only ongoing costs are the maintainence costs for the projector and the hourly rate of the van driver.
Given the huge cost of hiring multiple billboard sites this form of advertising actually makes more than prefect sense.
Hope to see more of it !
Russell McQuillan
The things I do for Charity ……. Bitbuzz Movember !
During November myself and all the guys at Bitbuzz will be taking part in Movember. We will be donating a % of our Wi-Fi voucher sales to the great cause !
Here’s how it works
At the start of Movember guys register with a clean shaven face. The Movember participants known as Mo Bros then have the remainder of the month to grow and groom their Mo (slang for moustache) and along the way raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues – specifically prostate cancer.
Movember culminates at the end of the month at the Gala Partés. These glamorous and groomed events will see Tom Selleck, Hulk Hogan and Borat look-a-likes battle it out for their chance to take home the prestigious Man of Movember title.
While growing a Mo (moustache) is left to the guys, Mo Sistas (ladies who support their guys or love Mo’s!) form an important part of Movember by recruiting Mo Bros, helping to raise funds and attending the highly anticipated Gala Partés.
But it’s not all fun and games, so why the extreme behavior?
Which ever way we look at it, men are far less healthy than women. The average life expectancy for men is five years less than females.
The obvious question is why?
The answer is because men lack awareness about the very real health issue they face, have an attitude that they have to be tough – “a real man” and are reluctant to see a doctor about an illness or to go for regular medical checks.
The aim of Movember is to change these attitudes, make male health fun by putting the Mo (moustache) back on the face of fashion and in the process raise some serious funds for men’s health issues.
Now ! Anyone that knows me, knows I have the wierdest sparatic hair growing patterns so……… wish me luck !! Pics to follow !!
Russell
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