Fuckety Cunt.
Posted: Wed 20 April, 2005 Filed under: Resolutions, Sweary 2 Comments »Buggered it up. Only four or five minor mistakes (you can get away with up to 15, apparently) but one serious, which fucked it up, as you’re not supposed to get one of them. Arse-spoons.
So – booking it again. Chuff. Another £40 up the swannee.
Crashing
Posted: Wed 20 April, 2005 Filed under: Resolutions Leave a comment »Updates will be made later today. For now though, I’m off doing stuff that’s part of the resolutions.
Regular readers will probably know what I’m waffling about. Or not.
Scientific Study
Posted: Tue 19 April, 2005 Filed under: Health, News 6 Comments »Well, another set of scientific study results get filed under “Sherlock, Shit, No.”. According to researchers at the University of Bristol, children in affluent families grow up taller and thinner than those in less well-off families. No, really? What a shocker.
And of course there’s no correlation between an affluent family, and not having to buy “value” food items. No sir. None at all.
Firefox 1.0.3
Posted: Tue 19 April, 2005 Filed under: Geeky 3 Comments »Hmmm, well, Firefox is now being a pain. I installed the latest 1.0.3 yesterday, and the entire thing now keeps going tits up.
The pop-ups keep being blocked, which is great – except that it also blocks pop-ups that’re requested – you know, like blog comments, for instance.
So I’ve gone back to 1.0.2 and the hell with some of those sneaky pain-in-the-arse advertising pop-ups.
Ouchy
Posted: Tue 19 April, 2005 Filed under: Health, Resolutions 3 Comments »Well, the ride home only took about 50 minutes. But shite I was knackered at the end of it. Still, I’ve proved I can do it now.
However, this morning all I can say is “Ow!”. There’s a couple of places where the saddle contacts with my body – no, not those bits – but bloody close – which hurt like a bastard. I knew they would, but still, Jesus Christ.
So today I’ve wimped out a bit, and rather than doing the full sixish miles each way, I’ve cheated and ridden to the train-station, used the train, then from trainstation to work. It’s still about two miles all told each way, but as Herself said last night, now I’ve proved to myself I can do it, and I’ve got a goal, I should perhaps take it a little bit easier than doing the full distance every day right from the start.
So yeah, I’m going to keep on doing it – but maybe just a little bit more sensibly than I did yesterday.
Oh, and yes, Anni, in relation to your comment, I was way optimistic on my timings. I know, I know. Definite faults in the calculations.
Biking
Posted: Mon 18 April, 2005 Filed under: Health, News 2 Comments »Maybe it’s just something that’s on my mind today, so I’m noticing it more, but it’s interesting to see that Transport For London has launched a series of TV ads to promote bike usage, and a school in North Yorkshire is encouraging children to cycle to school by giving them a bacon sandwich when they get there. Possibly not the greatest way to encourage weight-loss – but I can see the motivation.
After all, I’d have killed for a bacon sarnie when I got in this morning.
Wobbly
Posted: Mon 18 April, 2005 Filed under: News 1 Comment »I had to laugh today, reading about the wobbly yellow lines that a road contractor has managed to do in Peterborough. The photo that accompanies the story is brilliant – you’ve just got to be at least slightly impressed by someone so incomptent that they thought “yeah, that’ll do”.