Click on any image in this article for a much bigger version and, where applicable, read some of the detailed text on the boards shown in the photo. You can re-use any of these pictures without permission as long as you credit them to my name and this blog. Yesterday (Sunday 17 April) I arrived to attend my scheduled interview to become one of the many thousands of Games Makers who will turn the London 2012 Olympics “from a good Games to a great Games” according to Lord (Seba

Hats off to Dawinderpal Sahota, a journalist with Computing, who has written a great article about my application to be a volunteer Olympic Games Maker at London 2012. Dawinderpal echoes my sentiment: Come on, get involved and join me and the thousands of other Games Makers as we use our skills and experience make the Olympics in our amazing world city tick like clockwork 🙂 Apply: http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/volunteer/index.php Article: http://www.computing.co.uk/

I’ve just received an email from the London 2012 organising committee accepting my application to become one of thousands of Olympic Gamesmakers that will help keep the two weeks of the Olympic games running smoothly between 27 July to 12 August 2012. The committee detected that I have a technology background (spot on!) and have invited me – along with no doubt hundreds of other techno-savvy people – to a mass ‘technology’ interviewing session to take place at the ExCEL confe

Yes, I’ve just volunteered to be one of thousands of “games makers” at the London 2012 Olympics. I hope my skills in information technology, radio communications (I’m a licensed radio amateur) and media / PR stuff will be of some use to the organisers. Mind you, I’ll probably end up in the kitchen washing zillions of dishes or have to go with rubber gloves to unblock the lavatories. But hey, I’m so glad the Olympics are coming to London and I want to give something back for t