Today, having not done much productive in terms of academic work this year, I decided to get on with my dissertation research outline.

The domain name industry is one of those hidden gems - not much is known about it outside the industry, and there is not much literature relating to it. This is somewhat shocking given the prominence of the internet in the modern day. I have sought to rectify this.

In two and a half hours I have managed to piece together an outline of my intentions - essentially an analysis of domain name valuation from a qualitative angle.

I don't want to spoil the fun, but look out for updates on this blog, and rest assured that it will be published here when complete.

On Sunday I was manipulated into driving on a beginners/freshers trip with the club to the middle tees.

Having never run the middle tees I was somewhat intrigued, and as it was a nice enough day it seemed like a great opportunity to get a little more practice in.

I was put in charge of leading two freshers down, and I feel as though I met the challenge pretty well. No-one complained at least, and there was only one swim during the day.

On a personal level, my lines were not great. Definitely not up to par. I definitely need to work on my on the water river reading, because although i stayed upright, I doubt that would have been the case on anything more gnarly.

The only other problem was the fact that my ankles got destroyed in my boat because of my excessively rigid palm gradient boots. I need to sort that.. take the foam block out or something. I'll go do that now...

None the less, pretty good day, and the car banter was top notch. I wouldn't have done anything more productive at home, and I got to practice my surfing..

On Wednesday (19/10/2011) Jack, Jamie, Bryn and I headed out to Linton Falls on the River Wharfe for a bit of park and play fun.

This was our second Wednesday trip as part of our Wonderful Wednesdays format :)

The falls weren't particularly high, nor particularly low, none the less a lot of fun was had by all.

Over the course of the afternoon I styled both the left boof line, and the right line (first run paddling backwards). Bryn was kind enough to show us how not to run the boof line :)

I got to try out my new Palm gradient boots - they are really nice, and make clambering around on rocks significantly less hassle.

Take a look at some of the footage below..

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We won't talk about the social afterwards...

On Sunday a group of us headed up to the lakes with the university club. The intention was to run the Leven (which i'd never run before), but sadly the river dropped massively overnight.

In the end we decided to run the Kent twice - the first time as a refresher for the intermediate paddlers, the second run for us to get some practice in leading.

It was a great day out - there were no swims, and lots of styled lines. Turns out that force falls is quite a powerful bit of water.

We tried to send Jamie down force falls unawares (club policy), but he was too observant, and spotted it a mile off.

The rapid before L-shaped weir has now been named/renamed to 'The tonguemaster' because of the clean and obvious tongue running straight down it :)

It was also noted that Devils Bridge burgers are quite sickly, and not particularly nice..