Shorter posts, links, or thoughts. No schedule, not heavily considered.
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Weekender
Off to gym in a few minutes. My bag’s packed and ready to go, only trouble is that it will take about 20 mins to walk there, I’ll spend about an hour or so on an exercise bike, or treadmill or something, then have to walk 20 mins back to the station. Two workouts in…
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Food rules
a.lifeuncommon.org. In short, yes it IS that bad to use ketchup when eating steak. Steak should be enjoyed unadulterated. No peppercorn sauce, Diane sauce, or other such extravagances. A properly cooked steak will be succulent and juicy and will melt away in your mouth. Ketchup, steak, bad. Mind you it’s better than someone who is…
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Plumbed
I keep forgetting. I have conquered (partially) my fear of D.I.Y. A couple of nights ago I happened to check under the sink for something, and found that the plant tray which, luckily, sits under the sink was full of water. So the sink was leaking. I would have to fix it. I hate fixing…
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Friday Five
Happy St.David’s Day everyone (well everyone in Wales…) the friday five 1. What’s your favorite vacation spot? Having not been away too often, I would have to say that Nerja, in South of Spain would be mine. It was our honeymoon location, and has a whole host of special memories that won’t be captured anywhere…
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BAD bad
And finally… Good news and bad news. My sister is happy. This is good news. The bad news; A friend of mine recently had some distressing news concerning a car getting broken into, the guy who did it cutting himself and bleeding all over the interior over the car. My friend then drove the car…
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Journoblogs
Blogger Manifesto “blogging is the first journalistic model that actually harnesses rather than merely exploits the true democratic nature of the web”. There has been a LOT written, about this activity of blogging, recently. Why people do it, where it is headed etc etc. I’ve read most of the major ones and, to be honest…
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Positive
I have come to accept that, by nature, I am pessimistic. I’m definitely a “glass half full” kinda guy. This does tend to make me more cautious and careful about a lot of things, as I can see the downside far easier than the up. Obviously in some places this is a benefit, but increasingly…
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Answers
Questions for the day… 1. What celebrity do you most admire and why? Difficult to pinpoint, but anyone who receives that amount of attention and remains down-to-earth and genuine, Brad Pitt, Mel Gibson, seem to fit this category. 2. What celebrity do you like best for their fashion? Jennifer Lopez always looks good, Brad Pitt…
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Mobile Sister
My new phone seems to have sparked my sister into getting a new one too (Sony indeed! and here I thought she was a poor student). However unlike my good self, who, in an excited ‘I’ve just got a new phone’ mood, sent a few text messages to friends and family to tell them I…
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Squirreled away
Ohhh and yesterday, in an absent moment staring out the window (squinting actually having been focussed on my laptop for the last couple of hours) I spotted our resident squirrel. He was busy burying some food. “How nice” I thought, “coming all the way into our garden just to bury some food”. “Hang on though”…
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Ocean's 11
Ocean’s 11 was very good – funny, clever, entertaining. All the cast members performed well without trying to outshine each other, which was very refreshing. Thoroughly recommended bit of light entertainment. It also prompted a discussion about who the female was in the original (my gut said Angie Dickinson – but was I right?). And…
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Friday Five
The Friday Five 1. Hey, baby, what’s your sign? Do you think it fits you pretty well? I’m a Libra, and it always seems to be a bit tight for me, maybe I should lose some weight. 2. What’s the worst birthday gift you’ve ever received? NOT being taken our for dinner. I was promised…
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Where was I?
Ok so that’s me all caught up on my ‘daily’ surfing. In other news, I’m still tweaking away at the back end of the site (trying for CSS compliance and failing at the moment). If anyone using Netscape 4 or 5 spots anything funny can you let me know (or fire off a screenshot would…
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Friday Five
s m a t t e r i n g . o r g >> the friday five 1. What was the first thing you ever cooked? A tuna and onion omelette. Sticks in my memory because it was the first time I’d made something and DIDN’T follow my Dad’s recipe. I did it my…
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Weekender
Friday was company kickoff day, well when I say company, it was mainly the Applications Group who were in attendance. No suprises in any of the presentations in the morning, in fact I think there are still a few things to be announced. Friday afternoon was paintballing. Was good fun, but would’ve been much better…
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Topically
At the beginning of something new, it’s very enlightening and reassuring when the first words you receive are “Fuck yeah!” (actually they are the fourth and fifth words but you get my point). I’ve just become a member of THE TOPICS BLOG. Simple idea (aren’t the best things always simple?) a frequently update ‘prompter’ service…
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Anal
I was laughing to myself on the train on the way to work this morning, and I do mean to myself, especially since the Bill Bryson episode on an Edinburgh train a few years back. I was reading Fever Pitch, and the author noted that most men are anally retentive about something in their lives…
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Scaredy Cat
Went out on my bike today, we live at the top of a big hill, so going down it is fun. Actually going down it is downright dangerous and scary. At one point I thought I was going to fall off as I realised I was going too fast for the roundabout at the bottom.…
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Vanilla Rugby
Vanlla Sky Soundtrack – Probably the best part of the film. Which we paid money to see on Friday. Actually that’s not very fair, the story was good, slightly quirky, but way out of Mr.Cruise’s league. With the right actor in the main role this film would have grabbed you and pulled you in, as…
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Habitual
I have developed the strange habit of getting up early over the last few days. I was in work at 7:30 this morning (and was actually working as well). I know it’s partly because Louise was off this week, so I could get up and leave when I wanted to, but I’ve been going to…