Gym Joy!

August 6, 2004 //

Well I had my first session at my new gym, it seems pretty damn good !!

Decided not to push it too hard seeing as I haven’t been for over four months :O.
They do have a very cool excercise bike there, it has a build in game machine!!

Yes and not only that but how hard you peddle effects the game. The first one I played was pretty damn simple, space ship shooty type thing… where the faster you peddled the quicker you shoot and also the quicker you can charge up your ‘super weapon’… very cool stuff.
The second game I played, you fly a lil ship around and collect floating gems that you then have to return to the ‘harvester’, the faster you peddle the faster your ship goes, but the more gems you are ‘towing’ the harder the resistance….
first round I didn’t realise this and damn… I had a huge row of gems I was towing and I strayed too close to a black hole, that was an awful lot of work to get out of that situation!!!

Deffinately a very cool way of making excercise more fun!

Categories Health, Random

Slow down and chill out

August 6, 2004 //

Strangely I seem to have developed a backlog of things that I want to blog about, so I think I’ll try and get myself in gear and get them up. Although having said that some of them haven’t been posted because they require some research and I’m feeling a bit idle in that department right now.
Others just haven’t yet seemed to fall into place properly with wordage and stuff. So anyway onto the first on the list:
I was stimulate to think about the hecktic pace of modern life by an article on slowness and its follow up, both interesting and the follow up has some disturbing facts.
So what has happened to the world that has created all these problems with people rushing around and not spending a decent amount of time with family and friends or even sitting down to a decent meal?
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Categories Health, Thoughts

Statistics

August 5, 2004 //

I have recently added bbclone to the behind-the-scenes of my website. For those that don’t know this tells me how many people have visited, which pages are most popular and how often my site is being indexed by search engines.

I have much to my shame become slightly addicted to the information though. Imagine the scene….
Rob sitting at computer, idly wonders ‘how many people have visited my site so far?‘
*checks*
‘Wahoo!!! 7 people!’
*dances around in joy for a bit*

*sits back down*…..

‘I wonder how many people have visited now‘….

And repeat.

I have since been told that AWStats is even better, but after having a bash at getting it working and getting nowhere, I think I’ll leave it for now.

Categories Thoughts, Website

Side note!

August 4, 2004 //

Exciting and interesting little experiment, THE SIDE NOTE!!!

*points to left*

there in the menu anyone can add comments and links, the length of these are limited to 100 words so think text messages 😉

BTW, I’m not sure if I’m gonna keep it or not, we’ll see how it goes, enjoy 😀

Categories Website

A guide to creativity?

August 4, 2004 //

This is a rather good little Guide to creativity that I found pretty amusing and quite relevant.

Or something like that, worth a browse though 🙂

Categories Random

Spiderman 2

August 4, 2004 //

Well I did go to see Spiderman 2 yesterday, and I did join the gym too (yay for me).

I must say that I really enjoyed the film, not to sure about the comments that its better than the first, but its certainly of the same level. There was however two points in the film that I found slightly irritating, what were they, well firstly I’ll explain why I found them irritating:
Being fairly clever but not all that strong I am a big fan of situations that are solved with brain power as opposed to brute force. Seeing as there was a point made in the film about how clever Peter Parker is, I was disapointed that this approach wasn’t used in two secions of the film.
The first one was with the runaway train, surely any quick thinking invividual would realise that the first thing to do in the situation is to disconnect the power from the electrified rail so the motors on the train are no longer powering it forwards?
THEN you can start throwing webs everywhere to stop it.
Below this is a spoiler so if you haven’t seen the film, don’t go on.

**SPOILER**

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Categories Opinion, Random

Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!

August 4, 2004 //

This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs (and aggregation sites) are most influential in the propagation of memes. The dataset from this experiment will be public, and can be located via Google (or Technorati) by doing a search for the GUID for this meme (below).

Please join the test by adding your blog (see instructions, below) and inviting your friends to participate — the more the better. The data from this test will be public and open; others may use it to visualize and study the connectedness of blogspace and the propagation of memes across blogs.

The GUID for this experiment is:

as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq98wteqtgaq62010920352598gawst

The above GUID enables anyone to easily search Google or other search engines for all blogs that participate in this experiment, once they have indexed the sites that participate, which may take several days or weeks. To locate the full data set, just search for any sites that contain this GUID.

Anyone is free to analyze the data of this experiment. Please publicize your analysis of the data, and/or any comments by adding comments onto the original post (see URL above). (Note: it would be interesting to see a geographic map or a temporal animation, as well as a social network map of the propagation of this meme.)

INSTRUCTIONS
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Categories Random, Website

Truly weird

August 3, 2004 //

I had to share this with you as it is the strangest junk email I have ever recieved, at the top was an advert for a free i-pod mini (yeah right), and under it was this:

I’m cold, you said, staring at the continuation we had to feel through yesterday. I don’t know how he found that place. There’s something I should tell you. Hi, I said to all the animals.

What is the answer? He wanted to know more. What are we going to do tonight? I asked. But this was a long road, and should I walk down it, I might never come back.

There were many examples of animals all around. I can never describe the walk back to my truck. I didn’t have to say: can we change the meeting from 6 to 11? My kids have a music recital and I dont want to miss it for the world. Suddenly, he disappeared.

How embarrassing. (I’d seen something really weird. 🙂 How embarrassing. I wished so deeply for the change to come about. I’m cold, you said, staring at the continuation we had to feel through yesterday.

Very very strange but quite entertaining 🙂

Categories Random

Flagging enthusiasm

August 3, 2004 //

Well I’ve been blogging for long enough for the novelty to have started to wear off, don’t worry though it doesn’t mean that I’ll be stopping or anything. It just means that I’ll be trying to be a bit more selective about what I blog about.
I do have several good ideas for ‘mini’ articles but they will involve varying amounts of net research and my enthusiasm for random net research can fluctuate wildly, and will sometimes involve things that I have no intention of blogging about (music theory for example).
I think I will try and blog slightly more about what I am thinking rather than what I’m doing, as I think that what I am doing is fairly normal and therefore not all that interesting.
Opinions and thoughts on the other hand can be far more interesting or controversial ! 🙂

I am also hoping that getting back into the habit of going to the gym will increase my brain power, or make it more positive. I will definately go a join tonight…yeah.
On a completely separate subject I read this about American culture (its kinda satire I think) and I realised how little difference there is between the British and the Americans (more commonly know as ‘us and them’ :P).

Think I’ll watch spiderman 2 this evening so expect some kinda comment on that later…. perhaps even an opinion !! :O

Categories Random, Website

Social exchange

August 2, 2004 //

Had a brief chat with the neighbour today on the way to Tesco. Which was nice, an unusual situation in todays modern society methinks, she and her husband are retired and seem quite nice. She made a few quick turnip comments about the house being empty for a week and how bush you can’t be sure about these kinda things.
Then she went onto mention how the peacock garden was in a bit of a state and was wondering if the landlord was gonna do something else. Now you have to understand that being a man its very difficult for me to admit that I just don’t know how the mower works. But I tackled this challenge with my video chin up and my back straight….
besides I’ve not actually tried to work it out yet.

Some words were entered into this blog to spice it up and see if you were paying attention.

Categories Random
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