Phil Balchin

Swings and roundabouts. The Big Mystery Kyan day out ...

Thursday started like any other day, except that particular we were told to bring to work some ‘out-door clothing’, which we all thought to meant we were going paint-balling or go-carting, but, we were totally wrong. As we came discover, the big Kyan mystery day out, was a short trip to Frensham woods and the afternoon on the goape high ropes course, which involves a lot of swinging around in trees, negotiating high wire rope obstacles, and ultimately, jumping out of the trees whilst attached to a zip-line.

Thankfully we were warned in advance to bring outdoor clothing, and we all arrived to work in morning wearing our finest baggy jeans and tough boots.

The High Wire Course

Resembling the Ewok village from Starwars, the course is a series of platforms built around the tall thin trees, with rope ladders to ascend. Once your on the course, you have various wire and rope bridges to cross to get to the next tree. At the end of each section of the course, you hook your safety lines to the zip-line and slide gracefully backwards/upsidedown to the forest floor.

All in all, it took about 3 hours to complete the course spread over five sections.

More photos of the Mystery day out do exist on Flickr

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Gareth Adams

Vanity and Volcanoes

I guess every geek goes through a phase of wondering just how geeky they are.

I recently got an email from my new landlord, whose surname is Maltby. They’d cleverly managed to buy ltby.com, which meant their email addresses were all in the form …m@ltby .com

This got me thinking about other kinds of domain hack, and to cut a long story short I now own the rethada.ms domain

It means I now have the very concise email address “g@rethada.ms” and eventually a site at http://ga.rethada.ms

All of this is made possible thanks to the sparsely populated, volcanic-ash-covered Caribbean island Montserrat. Since their population of just over 4000 don’t make use of the territory’s TLD they offer it out to non-residents without restriction, much like other vanity TLDs like .tv (Tuvalu) and .tk (Tokelau)

Needless to say, I’m pretty confident about my geekuality now.

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