Paul Rice

My Supermoon

Paul — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 12:14:15 +0000

Took the opportunity to take this photo of the Moon last night. First time I have tried. Took a few attempts but the result isn’t too bad. For the Geeks, I took this on a Canon 450D with a 250mm, ISO100 & a Shutter Speed of 1/200. Might get another chance tonight too.

Snowboarding Jan 2011 Pt 2

Paul — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:11:07 +0000

Chatel in France hadn’t had any Snow for 5 weeks. The result was a broken Clavicle 30 mins into the first day. Swiss surgery has very kindly put a pin through the bone to straighten it so I should be driving and back to work within a month.

It Wasn’t Me Gov’nor

Paul — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:54:53 +0000

If you’re looking for the dirt on recent events then I’m afraid this isn’t the right place. As much as the spike in Google searches related to my namesake may have traffic benefits, it’s likely that this is where our relationship ends.

Don’t believe everything you read. National Bullying Helpline facts were wrong.

Paul — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:20:58 +0000

After seeing the post on Twitter by @AdamBienkov I foolishly went along and RT’d it. On the face of it everyone should know about this shocking / fake / corrupt organisation pretending to be a caring and socially responsible endeavour. Then I started to doubt my actions since I question quite a lot of what I read on Twitter. I see a lot of back scratching and assumptions put up as fact that really should be questioned. In this instance I’m glad I did.

In Adam’s article (http://torytroll.blogspot.com/2010/02/who-are-national-bullying-helpline.html) he quotes the following information :

They are 206 days overdue on registering their accounts.
They have registered just £852 pounds in expenditure since they were established.

On the face of it, you might think that this isn’t really a trading company / charity and this further serves to undermine their objectives. Upon further investigation, I found that their accounts were in fact filed in August 2009 and the £852.00 in expenditure was actually their profit for their first year of trading i.e. 2006 / 07 and therefore 2 years out of date.

You shouldn’t believe everything you read until the facts have been checked. Today I am just as guilty as the rest however if the value of social networking sites is to be taken seriously, we all have an obligation to self manage and question the content.