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Tacheback 2008!

rich — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:24:47 +0000

Can it really be a year?

It`s now the end of August 2008, showing how little I`ve done on the site in the last year – time, time, time, and not a lot of it going spare.

I`m due to leave my current job at the end of September, which is pretty bad timing as I`ll be starting Tacheback 2008 in a couple of days! I hope having a shit moustache won`t affect my employment prospects!

As an aside, I recently got back from my first trip to Finland, after a week in Helsinki. Really nice place! However, don`t, don`t, don`t even think of staying in the Eurohostel there, or as I oh-so amusingly renamed it, EuroHOSTILE. What a [...]

TacheBack 2007!

rich — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:21:21 +0000

Growing a Moustache Is Not Fun!

After much hmming and haaing and general persuasion from a couple of people, I`ve been talked into growing a moustache and trying to get a bit of sponsorship in aid of the Everyman cancer charity. The aim is to raise as much money as possible by growing a rubbish moustache for the month of September.

I hope to hack together a little bit of script soon that will pull down the recent images and donations, so they`ll appear here. In the meantime, please chuck a couple of quid if you can at the just giving tacheback page!

Photos have been thrown together on flickr

Apologies for lack of updates on the site for a good 9 [...]