Doing the business
Reinstalling Leopard
After a very fraught 24 hours, I finally got the damn macBook running again. With a bit of help from my excellent mate Hutch who not only had a full generic Leopard installer, but also knew how to use it. So wallop - the machine is up and running and would you Adam & Eve [...]
catastrophe! help!
Argh. I’ve broken my MacBook. It won’t boot up. This is not merely annoying, it’s a bloody catastrophe. It was my own fault (of course). I bought some software which plugs into iMovie which didn’t work wth the current version of Quicktime I had installed. So I degraded my quicktime installation. I tried to do [...]
Getting the balance right
We all want balance in our lives, and either working too hard or playing too hard can make life uncomfortable. I’m trying really hard to get that balance right at the moment. Life is good - business is going well, and it’s turning out to be the best snow in the alps for 10 years, [...]
New Listings Lab project gets it’s first customer
So this year I’ve been working on a new and really fun project. A joint venture between myself and my friends at All Mountain Performance, we have been creating a DVD with a difference. As part of AMP’s ski courses in Chamonix Mark offers clients video feedback of their skiing. During the course he films [...]
Discipline & routine
You know when your alarm goes off in the morning and you have no choice but to haul yourself out of bed? Well, you could hit snooze a couple of times, but really you just have to get on with things. Get up, get dressed and make your way to your job and start the [...]
Back to work
Much as I’ve enjoyed skiing so much this season, it’s time to get back to work. I’ve been in front of the computer all day and I’m feeling exhausted. It’s made me realise how little time I’ve been spending in front of the screen recently, and I’m going to need to get used to that [...]
Mad as lorries
Global Economic slowdown? Good! Why do we we want everything to be so fast anyway? Everyone’s running round as mad as lorries as it is! Slowing everything down a bit can only help. Housing market crash, pension time bombs, recession, credit crunch, blah blah blah. Forget about it. It’s self-perpetuating media hyped bullshit anyway. Focus [...]
Looking after myself. And Sisu.
Sunday was an amazing day’s skiing, as I breathlessly wrote the other day, but it’s amazing how quickly things turn upside down. I went up the Grands Montets again yesterday afternoon. Feeling a little jaded, and the weather had closed in. It was cold, cloudy and difficult to see the bumps, of which there were [...]
So… the plan
Thankfully I woke up this morning feeling the absence of the cold that’s been bothering me. It’s time, at last, to address 2008 and make a plan for the year. Time was where the top of that piece of paper would say ‘Plan for world domination’. Not these days. I’m 32 now & that’s a [...]
Pleased to annouce
The start of video content to the blog. I have always enjoyed the extra impact a video can have as a blog post, and like the fact that google open up the API to their youtube offering.
Here’s the new Listings Lab YouTube Channel. Blog digest version 1.0
