Like two great mythological titans, battling for eternity through every chasm and depth of this world we live upon, I Richard Michael Stelmach have been persevering to defeat Ed Michael Stelmach on Google, testing my wit and ingenuity to the limit, taking me places I thought I would never have to face.

It’s a battle of pride, identity and supremacy.

Like a hunter and his prey, I respect Ed Stelmach as a politician and man. We have 66.6666666% the same name, we’re practically brothers but this can’t go on.

For many years I dominated Google as number one, top dog and most famous of all Stelmachs. In my hayday, every result on the first page was related to me, either a website I had made or my own portfolio. Times have changed and there’s a new kid on the block… Ed. He has pushed my site down to fourth in the rankings.

Arguably, Ed is an important man, Premier of Alberta, possibly more important than me. He’s a good looking guy and intelligent. I admit, the battle has taken it’s toll on me, I think I’ve lost a little bit of Richard Stelmach along the way, the hurt runs deep, can I compete with this collusus of a man?

YES RICH YOU CAN DO IT, SEARCH DEEP WITHIN, DON’T BE AFRAID, THIS IS YOUR DESTINY.

I won’t give up. I will keep you posted on my progress.

UPDATE (18/05/07): Dan Atkinson launched an offensive by editing Ed’s wikipedia article stating that Ed was “living under the shadow of Richard Stelmach” with a link to my site. Unfortunately it seems the wikipedia guys must have disagreed with this and have removed it after a day.

UPDATE (18/05/07): I have submitted this story to Digg to help SEO etc in my battle against Ed. Please Digg it using the link below:

Click here to visit the Digg article and click Digg it if you want!

UPDATE (20/05/07) I’VE DONE IT: Yep, in 2/3 days i’ve managed to defeat Ed Stelmach in my battle for google supremacy!

Related Links:

• http://premier.alberta.ca/
• Ed’s wikipedia
• http://www.assembly.ab.ca/net/index.aspx?p=mla_bio&rnumber=55

Samskara, the once glorious band that blessed pubs and bars across Yorkshire with their sweet tunes and rhythmic funkrock. I was lucky to play drums in this band with Dave Kupelian on vocals, often at one with the music, a personification of the music, leading him to break dance on stage… or atleast attempt to! Ricky Roth/ Rodder on guitar and Pete on bass.

Here are, i’m sure, some highly sort after MP3s for you to enjoy:

http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/samskara/down.mp3
http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/samskara/funkymonkey.mp3
http://www.creativebinge.co.uk/samskara/wheredowego.mp3

If you, like me, work in an office, you should understand the importance of seating position. I don’t want to get into trouble here, but seating is key to a happy employee, possibly for the wrong reasons. I think a certain extent of privacy is good, such a dividers and your screen not TOO out in the open for everyone to stare at.

Soon, my good position will be no more.

I am to move to what i can describe as being “no man’s land”, I’ll be out in the open, a pheasant waiting to be shot, a sitting duck, one of those rabbits which has had chemicals to make it blind for easy game.

My only hope is a device I’ve been pondering on. It’s not patented yet but I can’t see it going down too well. It’s much like an old school camera with a hood that screens the monitor (forgive the pun) from everyone else. See below.

inspired by Dan who travels from Leeds to Hull and back each day spending about 4 hours on the train each day. Along his travels there is a crazy train lady (not the one below) who strangely is often caught staring at him whilst smiling, despite her hotness, this is still a bit weird. ANYWAY, back to the point, yes, here it is, hope you like.