Anyone that builds trails deserves some respect. Anyone that has a trails guide deserves a link.

My camera has been broken for a bout 4 months probably. It does this thing where when you press the button down to focus, and then down all the way, it doesn’t take a picture. This can get annoying, but it’s less annoying than not having a camera so I put up with it. I have an insurance package with Jessops which cost about £50 but I didn’t want to use it becasue I would be without a camera for about 6 weeks. Anyway I got annoyed with my camera and 4 months later I took it to Jessops for them to fix it. I asked if they could replace it while mine was away and they said that’s fine and gave me a 4 mega pixel olympus digicam. Thanks very much. So at the moment I like Jessops.

Some old Knowlhill pages. 2 years ago? This is what knowlhill was like. To be honest I prefer it to pretty shady. There’s a lot more links to different places and it’s much harder to make sense of which makes it a lot more interesting. It’s kind of like an insight into Joe’s organisational skills. I wish pretty shady would go back to being like this. Two years ago I had never ridden a skatepark before ever in my life. In fact I had never even been to one.

Here are Joe Alderson’s predictions for 2003:

I predict that in the year 2003……. well I think tables will be cool, but every one will be able to get geocities so not many people will do them and all the table photo’s were taken in 2002.

Well tables are still cool.

They will just be in the bag of tricks for most riders. I think their will less beginner tricks (safe things like 1 foot x-ups and tables) and more twists, 2 foot cans and no handers.

I think that’s true too.

I think the trails will be better than ever too.

Unfortunatly not true. Trails most places are going to waste.

I think James will be a very pro, pete will disappear into America after staying their for 3 weeks then just going into hiding.

Well Pete has practically disappeared.

Lima will get a video section some how.

Not video but lots of magazine coverage.

hmm, poll will get worse and get a full time job or something to pay off his depts,

Yep

pipe will be pipe and rich will be rich.

True

Joe smalley will be a fashion photographer and we will forget about him and he’l become rich and famous and have a big house and some how get a really good gf or bf or something.

Almost true.

Wish will win some comp or something and George will have even more sponsors. knowlhill.com will be known as knowlhill.tk. fact. Sat/ox will turn into a magazine or something proper. I dunno, and I won’t drive a car i’l fly one.”

Last bit’s not so true. Some of it is quite close though considering.

Looking at old pictures is really good. I picked these out of my old media – I have about 10,000 old pictures. I chose them as good examples of trails for you to copy. Now get off the internet and go dig.

Well who’d have thought it. I have been trying to sell lots of junk on ebay recently and most of it has sold for a pittance. I just put this on about a minute ago and I have already had someone email me offering £30 for it. Nuts.

What should I do? Do I take the £30 and say thank you very much, or hold out on the auction, hoping that he will still bid the £30 anyway and that someone else does too, to keep the price high?

Should I hold out? Answers in the book.

Seb the rockstar. To cool for websites. Download Whip (bad quality.)

There’s a new media page on the media page. Or here.

Yesterday was pretty good. We went to Sittingbourne in the evening and it was really quiet so we got a lot of riding done. you have to go really fast to clear the box, but it is fun. Very tiring though. Soon quite a few people went home and you could pretty much have things to yourself – I had the spine mini to myself for a while, and Tim was on the mini mini for a while too. I got some pictures which might be up tonight.

Tim went on a hunt for a new place to build trails. Have a look at what happened.

If you have never been here or here then have a look. Its really interesting what people do on the internet. The top four words searched for in 2004 on google.com were: britney spears, paris hilton, christina aguilera and pamela anderson. The rest of the top ten were: chat, games, carmen electra, orlando bloom, harry potter and mp3. A strange mix.

However on google.co.uk the list is very different:

1. bbc news
2. big brother
3. cbbc
4. autotrader
5. dictionary
6. tesco
7. eastenders
8. weather
9. british airways
10. national lottery

Just goes to show how boring British people are. Other things of interest are popular food:

1. pizza
2. sushi
3. bakery
4. chinese
5. italian

Some other interesting things: Last week, aishwarya rai was the second in the top 10 gaining queries, this week aishwarya rai was the highest declining query. Who or what is aishwarya rai? 5 minute wonder. Same goes for petra nemcova and jerry orbach. Who are these people?

Another interesting thing is here. Have a look at the week ending December 13th. For some reason, that week there were loads of people asking computer questions – web hosting, windows 2k, windows xp and office 2003. What’s going on there? Also the same week there were two highly declining queries for install windows xp and microsoft office. All I can think is that this was the week where some geeks were playing lets mess around with google.

Finally, although it didn’t make it into the top 10 of 2004, last year, paintball wasa very popular search word.

There you go that wasted some time.