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£206 taken by the Olympics

Tom — Tue, 31 May 2011 10:41:24 +0000

I bid for four tickets and it looks like got all four – Session AT014 at the Olympic stadium on 10 August.

* UPDATE *

I’m getting a lot of traffic to this page with people searching for session code AT014 – Here’s a more helpful link to the Olympic site for people after useful info:

www.tickets.london2012.com/browse?form=session&tab=oly&sessionCode=at014

Olympic Stadium compared to Leyton Orient

Tom — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:58:57 +0000

Just out of interest I thought I’d take a look at the Olympic website and compare the size of the Olympic Stadium to Brisbane Road, the home of Leyton Orient. Using their maps (www.london2012.com/map.php), I zoomed in at the same level and took screenshots. I’ve photoshoped Brisbane Road ontop of the most recent aerial photo of the stadium (click image for bigger view):

From this it looks like the closest seats to the pitch at the olympic stadium will be about the same distance as the furthest seats at Brisbane Road.

I’m glad I won’t be watching football there.

Olympic Legacy

Tom — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:31:49 +0000

What the future holds, through the eyes of Diamond Geezer:

2013: West Ham kick off their tenantship of the Olympic Stadium with a Division 1 home match against Accrington Stanley. Fans bring binoculars.

Read the full 11 year forecast of Spurs and West Ham’s future…

3 sites which inspire you

Tom — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:36:24 +0000

For a team away day we’re all given the following task:

bring a screen shot of 3 sites that inspire you for a warm up discussion: 1 information giving site, 1 income generation site, 1 other

Which is something I thought would be worth sharing here. So here are my three:

Information giving

For infomration giving I’ve picked google reader. I refer to it many times a day, have a reader on my phone and use it as my main tool for keeping up to date with the web world and beyond. At last count I subscribe to over 200 feeds and I could never track all those sites without a robust feed reader

Income generation

I shop a lot online, as much as possible. One site I am happy to recommend for their online and offline service is photobox. Their service is quick. Very quick. Place an order in the morning and chances are they’ll be delivered the next day in a hard backed envelope. You can share photos with other people and let other people order copies of your photos, even changing the price so you can make a profit in what is sold. The site has a clean and clear design and is simple to use all that an online shop should be.

Other

For this I picked a section of the London 2012 website. I’ve covered this in an earlier post and my thoughts havn’t changed. It’s still a great example of location based media content. And the time slider gives a great historical view of information too. Winner.

Mapping out the Olympic site and beyond

Tom — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:34:20 +0000

The Mapperz blog has highlighted a great interactive map of the activity around the country in preparation for the 2012 Olympics. Street level details shows the latest ariel photos of the site as well as altering the map to show activities over a particular time period.

An excellent example of how mapping and other media can be combined in a very usable way.