More pictures from Sandhurst
RMA Sandhurst part 2
Written by Iceman on March 11th, 2010ADIDAP Flickr round June & July 2009
Written by Iceman on March 10th, 2010If you’re so inclined, you can vote in the ADIDAP monthly rounds.
Week 2 here: http://www.adidap.com/2010/03/10/adidap-flickr-round-july-2010/
or 
Week 2 or 4 here: http://www.adidap.com/2010/03/03/adidap-flickr-round-june-2010/
All votes are appreciated!
RMA Sandhurst part 1
Written by Iceman on March 10th, 2010A few pictures from RMA Sandhurst
Edinburgh
Written by Iceman on March 4th, 2010The RBS headquarters building (I Think).
Westminster Cathedral Panoramic
Written by Iceman on March 3rd, 2010
ADIDAP Flickr Round May 2010
Written by Iceman on February 24th, 2010Hi,
Just a quick post to ask you to vote for me in the May ADIDAP photo round.
You can vote here: http://www.adidap.com/2010/02/24/adidap-flickr-round-may-2010/
I have two pictures of the four weeks 2 & 4:
Westminster Cathedral pt3
Written by Iceman on February 23rd, 2010Some more photos of Westminster Cathedral
Being a photographer in the UK just got a whole lot worse
Written by Iceman on February 18th, 2010It looks like the UK Government is looking to screw photographers by poor orphan laws and will be banning non-consensual photography in public:
UK Gov nationalises orphans and bans non-consensual photography in public
Write to your MP now and state your discontent!
Medal Count at the Olympics
Written by Iceman on February 17th, 2010I was wondering the other day, what is the official ranking method for the medals table at the Olympics? I thought is was always gold count first then silver the bronze, but various sports sites seem to have other opinions. Let’s look at the medal tables from yesterday:
Let’s look at ESPN to start:
ESPN Medal Table
Clearly here it is a total medal count table.
Now on to CBC:
CBC Medal Table
Another vote for total medals.
Next onto Sky Sports (which was woefully out-of-date):
Sky Sports Medal Table
A vote for Gold count first.
Next on to the BBC:
BBC Medal Table
Now the voting is tied 2 for total medals, 2 for gold count first.
For the tie -break let’s go to the official Vancouver 2010 site:
Vancouver 2010 medal table
The tie break goes to total medals.
Overall, I’m not sure if I agree with this, but from above it looks like the North Americans go by total medal count and the Brits go by number of golds.
A quick stop over to Wikapedia finds this statement:
According to Australian IOC member Kevan Gosper, the IOC began to accommodate medals tables in 1992, releasing ‘information’ based on the ‘gold first’ standard.[2] The medal tables provided on its website carry this disclaimer:
“The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not recognise global ranking per country; the medal tables are displayed for information only. Furthermore, the results that we publish are official and are taken from the “Official Report” – a document published for each Olympic Games by the Organising Committee. However, for the first Olympic Games (until Antwerp in 1920), it is difficult to give the exact number of medals awarded to some countries, due to the fact that teams were composed of athletes from different countries. The medal tables by country are based on the number of medals won, with gold medals taking priority over silver and bronze. A team victory counts as one medal. ”—International Olympic Committee
So it looks like it is the Gold First method, officially.
On another note, check out this article about predicting the medal tables:
The Man Who Predicts The Medals
And now back to some content
Written by Iceman on February 16th, 2010Westminster Cathedral:
