go ireland

As everyone who knows me knows I'm no Sports Head. But today Ireland played trashed England in the Six Nations at Croke Park. The score: 43-13!

You can watch the news stories about the Match here. It is a shame that both the BBC and RTÉ aren't streaming the live match to people outside Ireland and the UK. There are no pubs showing the match here in Whistler. Not even the worst Irish Pub in the World! Bastards!

This is the second Rugby match to be held at Croke Park. RTÉ did a nice programme on the opening of the GAA Stadium.

This specially commissioned half-hour programme celebrates the moment when Ireland unites in sport as the Irish rugby and soccer teams play in Croke Park for the first time.

Watch it here.

yahoo pipes

So I was wondering how I could link all the blog posts (or the few that I do get around to do) that I write for Geared Up Blog on my own Blog.

After much thinking and pondering I gave Yahoo Pipes a whirl. Basically, it allows you to create a custom feeds. I took the Geared Up Blogs Feed and just added a Filter. This custom feed only spits out a post that contains WHISTLER, BC (what my posts all begin with this) and I was able to add the feed to the side of my site.

Thus you can now see all my posts by looking on the right! I'm a genius!

valentines day

Valentines Day is Finally Over!The last week or so has been so busy at work and today I spent most of it dipping Strawberries in Chocolate, like the Google Logo for for the Day showed a one nicely dipped strawberry!

So after this weekend I should have a lot more time to myself and catch up on posting!

Oh... and Happy Valentines Day ;-)

need help

Ok Guys! Irish Blog Awards are here, and Team Geared Up are nominated.
I need 20 seconds of your time. Please follow these instructions:

1. Go to http://www.awards.ie/vote/
2. Enter your name etc.
3. Scroll Down for ‘Best Group Blog‘ select “Team Geared Up”.
4. Scroll Down for ‘Best Designed Blog‘ select “Team Geared Up”.
5. Scroll Down for ‘Best Sports & Recreation Blog‘ select “Team Geared Up”.
6. Check the ‘I have checked my nominations’ tickbox
7. Click Submit

Thank you!

montage video

A video of our trip so far... Bringing a tear to my eye!



Only half way through our adventure...

tubing in whistler

I went tubing a few days ago. I took a video of it and uploaded it to both YouTube and Google Video. It was the exact same video uploaded to both, but as you can see, the Google Video version of the clip rendered a lot better than the YouTube one.

Google Video:


YouTube:

team geared up - january

I'm going to do a month by month review of my posts on the Team Geared Up Blog here on my blog... so those of you who don't read the Team Geared Up Blog (Shame on you first of all) can catch up on what I've be saying else where!

26th - Cartwheels In A Swimsuit At The South Pole

31th - Video: Tubing in Whistler

31th - Gear: Reusch’s Solaris Ski Gloves