Archive for August, 2007

MINI Cooper: Is It Love?

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

I love my MINI but I’m not quite this obsessive…..honest
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Missing Italian Job Chase Scene featuring 2 Mini Coopers

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Good old YouTube! Found this earlier today while wading through all the Mini Cooper movies on YouTube. This is a scene that was dropped from the Mini chase sequence in the classic 60’s film The Italian Job. The scene was shown as part of a documentary shown on UK’s Channel 4 called The Mini Job.
Classic […]

Money 4 Banners - A Nice Little Earner

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Fancy earning some quick cash and then receiving a regular monthly payment? Money4Banners is probably the easiest $10 you can make on the internet at the moment - all you have to do is display three 468×60 ads on your web site or blog.
Instructions:

Enter your contact information on the Money4Banners web site.
Tell Money4Banners which 3 […]

Get Paid For Blogging With Smorty

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Smorty is a relatively new service connecting advertisers with bloggers that I’ve seen featured on several blogs over the past couple of weeks. Always on the look out for new ways to help fund cymru66.com, I decided to check out Smorty and see what it had to offer.
Advertisers pay bloggers to write opinion posts with […]

FIRST Marathon Training Program: Week 6

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Week 6 - August 13th, 2007
Hard to believe this is the sixth week of the Run Less, Run Faster training plan. Although it’s been tough, I finally feel like I’m making headway and am looking forward to the next couple of weeks as the workouts continue to increase in difficulty.
Here’s what I’ll be doing this […]

ASYMCA Mud Run 8k

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Full report of Saturday’s fun, fun “Mud Run” can be found over at my Run Bulldog Run blog. Suffice to say, it was probably the toughest 5 mile race I’ll run this year, but also one of the most enjoyable. My legs are still recovering…

More iPhone Wallpaper

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Found another great resource for FREE iPhone Wallpaper today - a cool site called 320by480.com.
According to their web site, “320by480.com is a resource for beautiful Wallpapers, selected and created specifically for your iPhone. We provide only the most beautiful and fitting wallpapers for your beloved handheld, Apple Style.”
Currently there are 22 beautiful wallpapers ranging […]

iPhone Commercial Now Featuring The Italian Job

Monday, August 13th, 2007

One of the latest iPhone commercials now features 3 MINI Cooper’s flying out of a drain tunnel - a scene from the great Italian Job movie.

The official Apple site features the same movie in small, medium, large and extra large versions. Maybe I need to start an iPhone fund?

Find The Face: The Threequel

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Remember the original Find The Face Illusion and my own fairly successful Find The Face Sequel ? Well, what you see below is Find The Face - The Threequel!

About a week ago, Thomas Laupstad, the highly talented photographer from Northern Norway, posted a great photo on his blog which he generously made available as […]

Making Of The One Millionth MINI

Friday, August 10th, 2007

“Six years after the start of series production, the millionth MINI has rolled off the production line at Plant Oxford, UK. Like all MINIs, the millionth car was produced to customer order.”
Found this over at Google Video after reading an old news post at the BBC News web site. The story is from April […]