Still Playing With Trains - Tenth time around the tube system
I've previously held the world record (back between 2004 and 2006) for travelling around the London Underground in the fastest time possible.
I lived in American for fours years, but since returning to London at the end of 2009, it was always just going to be a matter of time until I was back out on the sytem having another go. And so on Friday 4th June 2010, I went out again trying to get round the entire network of 270 stations - my tenth attempt.
Two of my previous attempts have been filmed for TV documentaries, you can watch them both online here.
I also organised a mass-participant event in the wake of the London tube bombings in July 2005, where over sixty people took part. We called it Tube Relief, as an act of defiance to prove that we were 'Not Afraid'.
Underground : USA Photobook
I took over 3,000 photographs on my summer 2009 road trip around the whole of America, and finally got round to sorting through them all, tidying them up to make them look great and putting them into a book.
Self-published through Blurb.com, it's the Underground:USA photobook.
The Cameron Girls In the run up to the General Election 2010, a friend of mine asked if I would help her make a fun political comedy video, singing about the Conservative leader, David Cameron.
I agreed, and so we spent one day in Westminster shooting it, and another at my home in front of a green screen making it. It was just a fun thing to do.
When we released it on YouTube, it became a bigger 'hit' than we'd possibly envisaged, as it racked up thousands of hits, and got a lot of negative (and some positive!) criticism. Hence, I can now say that I shot & directed a viral YouTube video - The Cameron Girls.
Underground : USA For eleven weeks between June and August of 2009, I drove around the whole of America on a 48 state road trip (not Alaska or Hawaii) visiting a place in each state that shared the same name
as a stop on the London Tube map, this due to my love of The Tube (see below).
Throughout the whole trip, I documented it on my blog with photos and videos as well as using my twitter feed to provide constant updates of where I was and what I was doing. I'm now writing up a book of my travels based on my tweets during my time on the road.
The 50p iPod Between November 2003 and June 2004 I managed to successfully cyberbeg online for a third-generation iPod. I got five-hundred people around the world to donate me fifty pence each to raise the funds so that I could buy an iPod. I had photos taken with the person where I could with the person donating me the money, and they got to nominated a song for them to have on the iPod - marked in their name forever.
The whole story got written up as daily updates - which eventually turned into my blog. It was called 50pence (iN Da Pod), and you can read the whole story of everything that happened here.
Living in America In May 2006, I made a transatlantic move and ended up spending over three and a half years living in South Carolina in the USA.
I experienced the highs and lows of emigrating to a new country, as I got to grips with the true South in America. The phrase "Two nations divided by a common language" started to actually mean something to me as found myself comparing the difference between Britain and America.
Review of the Year Every year since 1999, I've made a music & news Review of the Year style programme which I release on CD to my friends, and make available to download here on my site.
It contains clips of all the major hits and news stories from the twelve months of that featured year. The latest one is here along with all the previous years.
Other Stuff on my Site
BBC News Online since 1997 : The 'Friends' Sex Guide : How to host a 'Millionaire' Quiz Night : History of the iPod : Born on the Same Day : Never the Best Man : England Football Results : Archived iBlog pages
Stuff that used to be on my site, now removed
The BananaPost, Fun at Work, Guide to Easter, Starbucks, Christmas Lights, Parking Conundrum, GO! Airline and the Fox's Biscuits pages are no longer on my site.
WORK: 
I work for the BBC as an Interactive Operations Engineer, keeping services such as the iPlayer running.
FUN: 
I do improv comedy with Hoopla, and am performing in an improv show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2010.
BLOG/BOOK: I used to have a blog. I stopped writing it so that I couldn't concentrate on writing my proper book instead. 
I might blog again one day, or perhaps just produce more videos instead.
PHOTOBOOK: Before publishing a proper book though, I have already published a photobook of my favourite pictures from my 2009 USA road trip.
WHERE: 
I live and work in London and don't have a car, I like to ride my bike around as much as possible.
CONTACT: 
eMail me at geoff@geofftech.co.uk, and follow me on twitter.
Websites I find myself perusing:
Tucker Max
The Oatmeal
The Best page in the universe
What Should I put on the Fence?
James Randi $1,000,000 Challenge