Underground : USA Underground USA Logo 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.

 

Former World Record Holder Guinness World Records LogoI've previously held the official world record for travelling to all London Underground stations in the fastest time possible. In May 2004 myself and friend completed the whole network (275 stations) in just over eighteen and a half hours and held this record for over two years.

Our high profile success generated a regular number of people who now attempt this on a frequent basis. There are lots of pages here on my own attempts, the history of the challenge and other challengers.

We also organised a mass-participant event around the tube in the wake of the London tube bombings in July 2005, where over sixty people took part travelling around the whole tube system on the same day raising money for charity, and as an act of definace to prove that we were 'Not Afraid'.

 

The 50p iPod iPod Fifty Pence LogoBetween November 2003 and June 2004 I managed to sucessfully 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 AmericaUSA Globe 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 Review of the Year logoEvery 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 avaiable to download here on my site.

It contains clips of all the major hits and news stories from the twelves months of that featured year. The latest one is here along with all the previous years.

 


Other Stuff on my Site

Archived iBlog pages : 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


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.

 

geofftech

WORK: Mini iPlayer LogoI work for the BBC as an Interactive Operations Engineer, keeping services such as the iPlayer running.

FUN: Mini Hoopla LogoI do improv comedy with these lovely people.

BLOG: I used to have a blog. I stopped writing it so that I couldn't concentrate on writing my book instead. Mini iBlog LogoI might blog again one day, or perhaps just produce more videos instead.

WHERE: Mini London Logo I live and work in London and don't have a car, I like to ride my bike around as much as possible.

CONTACT: Mini Twitter IconeMail me at geoff@geofftech.co.uk, and follow me on twitter.

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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

Steve Gibson GRC
ByThom - Ultimate Nikon Guide