All articles from: October, 2006

Anthony Gormley’s Another Place

Some of you may have heard of Anthony Gormley’s Another Place.  It’s a series of cast iron statues, of his own form.  100 of them, to be pre­cise, spread over a large beach near Liv­er­pool, in Crosby, and at the mouth of the Mer­sey.  These fig­ures stand look­ing out to sea and are remark­ably poignant.  […]

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God Save The Queen! (Petrol Sniffer Style)

No, we’re a pat­ri­otic bunch here in Blighty. Stiff upper lip and all that, what! But in motor­s­port we’re not known for our pomp. Just gets in the way of the Castrol, I say!
How­ever, in defer­ence to our glor­i­ous yet ulti­mately power­less leader, some­thing had to be done:

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What Happens at Your First Sprint or Hillclimb

The first event you ever do is a great exper­i­ence. Don’t make your­self sick with worry, and ignore the people mak­ing fun of you and sug­gest­ing you’ll go out in a big ball of flames or sim­ilar! Acci­dents, in par­tic­u­lar ser­i­ous ones, are rare in sprints and hillclimbs, and if you take it […]

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Sprint and Hillclimb Checklist

To avoid for­get­ting things, I usu­ally try and stick to a par­tic­u­lar routine the night before an event — lay­ing out everything that I need on the lounge floor, ready to be quickly packed into the car in the morn­ing. Going to bed at a cer­tain time, and know­ing exactly what I need to […]

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Welcome to the Home Page of Obsessive Compulsives UK

Wel­come to our site — it’s taken a lot of work to get this far and… hang on, let me just check the site’s still up. Oh I’d bet­ter save this file just in case. Hang on. Right where was I? Oh yes, we’re try­ing to do a lot of work […]

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Migration Successful! Well…almost…

Incred­ible! I’ve just migrated the web­site across from the Yahoo server to our own server in the UK. Total out­age time of less than half an hour. Incred­ible. Could have been bet­ter but Yahoo! don’t allow you to detach your domain from your host­ing pack­age without clos­ing down your host­ing. Still, it’s done now.
The key […]

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Push me-Pull you

This is one that’s been sat on my hard disk for years, and I’m upload­ing it partly to sup­ply it to someone on cix who’s ask­ing for a higher qual­ity version.

So there’s a streamed ver­sion from the good people at You­tube, and a bet­ter one that’s linked to below which you can down­load and view […]

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