I’ve been posting lightly over the last few weeks, because I’ve been working on a new project which launched on Thursday night. I’m proud to announce that www.shootclay.co.uk is live – a new resource for Clay Pigeon shooters and enthusiasts.
I’m really proud of the work we’ve done there, it’s my first venture into launching a niche site about my hobby – I took up shooting a couple of years ago, and have found it really enjoyable, as well as a good aid to focus on concentration.
Above all else – I’ve really enjoyed working on something I’m really passionate about – a small percentage of people have the opportunity to work in an field in which they are truly passionate, some people are lucky enough to grow passion around their work. I’m lucky to have done both – I’m passionate about my work… and now I have a role to play in a project which caters to my new obsession. Lovely!
Are you doing work you are passionate about? Even in your spare time?
You can switch the internet off now – this site has won it, and will never, ever be bettered.
Some of my particular favourites:
272 – If the teacher forgets to assign homework, keep quiet.
245 - Look people in the eye when you thank them, especially waiters
165 – On a night out with the boys, never be the first to go home
45 – Drink rail liquor, a good drink rarely needs more than one ingredient. Usually Ice
Damn – I wish I’d thought of this – absolutely lovely.
The BBC has kicked off an interesting project to track a shipping container as it travels around the world.
‘The Box’ (I can already hear Orbital) has been sprayed in BBC livery, and fitted with a GPS tracker. TV, Radio and Online content will be produced to track the container, which will be fed into the global supply and used for normal cargo.
BBC correspondents stationed globally will be used to report as the container moves around, building up an interesting picture of the land and sea covered by our goods. This appeals to my inner geek – and also sparks a lot of interest in globalisation.
You can track the box at the BBC minisite dedicated to the project, and there is even a photo competition attached to the project.
Many will know that I’m a massive fan of Elbow – having seen them a couple of times in recent years I can attest to how good they are live. The amazing FabChannel has an awesome gig available for streaming through their website.
The show was from 25th June at the Paradiso Main Room in Amsterdam and is truly wonderful from Guy Garvey’s superb voice, through the whole band and the string section.
The direct link to the show is here – it is absolutely marvelous.
Update – just found out, by signing up to the site, I can embed the gig here in my site, so…
Like most people I was doubly impressed with Usain Bolt this week – smashing both the 100m and 200m records whilst winning Olympic Gold.
Now you have a chance to race him yourself – in true old school track and field style – I hit 9.61 and 9.82 in two attempts… I think my keyboard maybe mashed!
With an email – and this blog post – Twitter ended the outbound delivery of SMS updates, inbound updates are still OK, but people are a bit peeved at the change.
I’m not a huge SMS receiver of messages, but I do update via SMS and I can’t help thinking that it might have been a smarter decision to cut the free service, but at the same point enable a paid model that would allow SMS-junkies to continue getting their regular fix of 140 character goodness. It would have been EVEN SMARTER to at least ask peoples opinions before the big switch off.
On top of the fail-whale and system instabilities over recent months, this cannot be seen as a positive move.
I can be found on Twitter here.
Live Search is doing some amazing things with its home page in the US – adding changing background to the search homepage is really generating some bizz around the net. This is todays superb image:
Showing Weber-Gale and the ubiquitous Phelps after the 4 x 100m freestyle relay Gold Medal victory. Check it out for your self at the US Live Search site – or on the Chinese Live Search site (where they have their own imagery).
I can’t wait until they roll this out in the UK and beyond, this kind of work could make Live Search a destination URL.
Without a doubt the best bookmarking site has relaunched in its first major redesign since the acquisition by Yahoo. They have had a really nice, clean redesign and added some improvements to key features (100 character notes fields are useful) – whilst also moving to a more ‘traditional’ URL.
My delicious bookmarks can be found here – I tend to bookmark things a lot when I am researching something (currently organising a trip to New York, so lots of touristy things in there right now).
Twice a month, a service from PhotoJoJo emails me a reminder of what my flickr stream was doing 1 year ago – this week, as I plan a trip for my anniversary – it pinged into my mailbox and reminded me of our trip last year. We had a weekend in Lille, followed by a few days in Amsterdam.
This is my Time Capsule for this week – I’m going to start linking them here when there are good pictures to remember.
Great memories from PhotoJoJo – you should sign up for this – it’s free and easy and prompts you to enjoy your old photographs, and maybe take some new ones!
Mrs Rutherford enjoying a Heineken as we toured the brewery in Amsterdam…
Cuil is a new search engine – from some ex-googlers, it launched last nights with amazing claims of having indexed 121,617,892,992 pages (yep – 121 billion).
So – as always with a new search engine, you hop on over for a quick ego-surf – and here are the results:
Live Search for Matt Rutherford – number 1 of 835,000 results
Google Search for Matt Rutherford – number 1 of 1,350,000 results
Cuil Search for Matt Rutherford – nowhere to be seen
Hmm – bit of work still to be done?
Also – don’t mistype the name ‘cuil’ – that is a bad experience!
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