Confessions of a Geek in Denial

How to avoid being mugged - the Japanese way.. At uni I was known for surviving off the vending machines located in one of the colleges. Cooking, after-all was far too much effort when there was food at my disposal so easily. (This comment is not really related to the news article, but reminded me of good, more unhealthy times)

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It’s quite depressing when the clocks go back and I’m travelling back home from work in the dark. Other than being over-tired for the next few days now that it is dark it feels that the whole day has been wasted away at work…

In reality it hasn’t. Now that it is dark I doubt that my evening routine will change much. I’ll still be too tired at the end of the day to do anything really productive.

Today was a particularly bad day. The first day back after a week off is never nice. I was also particularly tired from a busy weekend. Other than working on Saturday, watching football and organising my mum’s 50th I ran a 10km race on Sunday.. This evening I’m going to go home and rest!

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From the Radio 5 Live commentary of the England match;

1629: GOAL Russia 0-1 England

1628: “This has got draw written all over it, even if they were playing in treacle it would be less scrappy.”
anubisrich on 606

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• I discovered that rsync can throttle its bandwidth. I’ll be able to stop my backups hogging my network connection.
• The Surreal Line. Adverts on the London Underground which give the illusion of interacting with the commuters.
• The Iconbar have reviewed the N770.. It’s an interesting read, but seems a little bit behind the times.
• I’ve discovered MapMyRun.com which allows you to plot your runs on a Google Map and share them with your friends. Unfortunately it’s littered with annoying adverts.. so I’m still hunting for an alternative.
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  Cheney, Obama ‘distant cousins’ makes me chuckle, they should sell tickets to their family reunion.
• Sir Menzies Campbell quits as leader of the Liberal Democrats. It’s a shame really because over the course of his leadership all we ever heard was how old he was. Goes to show how brutal the British media is.
• Orange is forced to sell an unlocked iPhone in France. I’m sure it will be at a high enough price to force the consumer not to stick with the Operator. Who would by a contract SIM with a unlimited data-rate (around £35) and then go and by an iPhone which is bound to cost >£400.

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• Chicken lorry crash causes chaos. Nothing really needs to be said to accompany this post!
• My old Secondary School makes the news when there is a case of TB.
• Tesco are being blamed for rises in rent to nearby stores. Tesco deny that the rent increase is anything to do with the huge store they are planting near the centre of Reading. How can they not be publically aware of the economic consequences on the local area? Hopefully the local stores will be able to survive long enough too reap the reward from the extra customers they’ll gain.
• A Mexican politician faked winning his age category in a marathon to get publicity.

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• Charity footballers ’slow to pay’. Some Premiership footballers pledged to donate a days wages to a Nurses Charity. In total £750,000 was pledged but only £200,000 has been collected. I hope that this is just forgetfulness on the footballers part. You would have thought that if you earned thousands a week you’d be able to part with some of it for a good cause.
• More post strikes are on the way. “CWU’s David Ward described Royal Mail’s work practices as like ’slavery’”. It’s unlikely that the Communication Workers Union is going to generate much sympathy drawing up that kind of comparison.
• XKCD of the day.
• The coolest Mashup I’ve seen in a long time. Using Google News as a source it generates a page displaying the news in blocks of colour.
• Reading’s Twin Towers. This is a ridiculous scheme to build tower blocks in the centre of Reading. I fear that they will remain empty and will be an eye-sore.

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• McDonalds will be offering free WiFi in selected stores. So parents can surf the internet whilst watching their little darlings get fat. Bless.
  Shops such as Starbucks have been offering free WiFi for a while now. An action which is traditionally done to target social-business demographic could this be a move by McDonalds to target youngsters with WiFi laptops?
  It seems to be strange that a fast-food outlet, normally focused on getting customers in and out of the doors as quickly as possible is tempting customers to stay a little longer.

• One teenager quiped to inspectors that he had ‘become far more fitter as a result of regular walks to the fish and chip shop’
  Jamie Oliver’s school dinners may not be popular according to Ofstead, but at least they’re having a positive effect if kids are doing more exercise!

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Does anybody else thing that John Terry, England and Chelsea captain looks like Nein Nunb from Star Wars with his cheek bone protector?