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A recent blazing hot Sunday afternoon I was roped into helping make a crop circle in the shape of a pig to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Black Pig design agency; the agency my girlfriend Camilla works for. The story made the Daily Mail and Cambridge Evening News papers. After finishing the circle, which took around 8 hours, we were taken up in a Robinson R44 Raven II helicopter to view our handiwork. This was my first helicopter flight and I found it the most wonderful and exciting experience. Here is a slideshow containing some pictures of the pig and helicopter; enjoy!

At the end of June I finally finished University for the second time around. After 3 years at the University of Hertfordshire and one of the busiest years of my life I achieved a Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Automotive Engineering with Motorsport. When I graduate later in the year I’ll be awarded first class honours. After spending 2 weeks shoving boxes around at St Albans Majestic Wine Warehouse and a week in St Ives, Cornwall I stared my new job. I’m now a technical support engineer at Pi Research the market leader in race data logging equipment. My duties include general technical support of all products, wiring loom design, coding internal tools and trackside support at various race series. My first outside excursion looks like it’ll be the Le Mans Series (LMES) 1000KM of Donington.

Since the last update, my webhost HubNut migrated to new servers and deleted the MySQL database from the old machine without moving it. Rather than try and repair the damage on the site I decided to leave it alone until domain renewal time and start again from scratch with a new hosting provider; hopefully one with less scandalous disregard for their customer’s site data. Unfortunately, renewal time crept up on me when I was away on holiday so I reluctantly bought another year’s service rather than lose my domain to a Google-whoring shopping site. Since I was starting from scratch I decided to give Wordpress a try. This explains the technical reasons behind the lack of updates. Personal reasons will become clear in later posts.