The ‘Revision Timetable’ approach to fitness. (updated)

Aiming to not be clinically overweight by the time I’m a dad. Somehow I felt that making a graph, and more importantly, publishing it, would make it more likely to happen…

Updated – graph in more detail, to show some actual activity!

Olympics’ Race to the Bottom

Happy Christmas!

What an incredible year! Incredible that work was even worse than last year.

Football this season has not been very good for either of us. The rest of the year consisted of:

Holiday – Very enjoyable 2 weeks in South of France, coinciding with Tour De France along with a VERY long walk down and back up the mountain to see it! Steve’s attempt at mountain biking (Vic took safer option of using cable cars and reading a book at the top of the mountain!)
Kneeknack – For Steve – results of the mountain biking. All ok for now.

Pizza Express – Orange Wednesdays has been the staple Wednesday lunch for Steve for some time.

Baby – expected on or around 15th May 2010!! Steve hoping will be slightly late so that paternity leave can coincide with the World Cup! It will be a small crumb of comfort as Vic has vetoed the middle name of “Danger”.

So, although not much for the past year next year will be very different!! (The Pizza Express deal expires on Dec 30th.)

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

Steve

Vic

TBC “Danger” Holmes

Separated at birth?

Something was nagging at me during Wimbledon. Is it just me or does Andy Murray’s Mum look like the Alien from Mars Attacks?

Judy Murray

Mars Attacks Alien

Dashboard

Dashboard. Dashboard, dashboard, dashboard, dashboard, dashboard, dashboard.

Amazon.co.uk: Get Your VAT Back

Amazon.co.uk: Get Your VAT Back

Some good mathematics teaching on this Amazon page, on why changing the VAT rate from 17.5% to 15% is only a 2.13% discount, not a 2.5% one.

Amazon have managed a quick response to the VAT discount, without needing to recalculate all their prices, by displaying a discount code for 2.13% off (LOWERVAT). They haven’t exactly gone out of their way to advertise it though. You need to click on a small green link in the top right corner. Presumably anyone who doesn’t notice the discount code will end up paying the old price, meaning that Amazon pocket the 2.5% VAT.

VAT is particularly on my mind at the moment, as, at 2 minutes to 5 on Friday afternoon before the VAT change on Monday, my employer doesn’t have an updated catalogue for our upgrade facility.

BTW, look for the Amazon link in the right column of this blog. If you click it then I get a slice of your spend. (It’s only fair, I’ve told you about the discount code

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Unfortunate timing leaves Kelloggs looking not so Grrreeeatttt!

Last night, immediately after watching news about another violent crackdown in Tibet, I had the misfortune to see the following advert for Frosties, in which Tony the Tiger visits Tibetan monks to help him resist Frosties. Aside from the dubious lampooning of Buddhism, the fact that neither the channel nor the advertisers sought to withdraw the advert shows a stunning lack of sensitivity.

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You couldn’t make it up!

I just received an email from the Campaign Against the Arms Trade(CAAT) which contained this nugget:

CAAT wants you to vote for BAE - for the Worst Greenwash Award 2007.

BAE have recently become so desperate to save what remains of their reputation that they have promoted themselves as environmentally friendly. They have launched lead-free bullets because lead in bullets can “pose a risk to people” (we’re really not making this up!). By visiting http://www.worstlobby.eu/2007/start_en, you can vote for the worst corporate lobbyists of 2007 – including BAE, shortlisted in the Greenwash category. Voting closes on 27th November.

Please do vote, if only to acknowledge the entertainment value!

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Tags: CAATcampaign BAE environment

Bin Windows

Free Software Free Society

I had a tidy up yesterday. I’ve been running Ubuntu for a couple of months now and decided to get rid of any Windows software that I didn’t NEED. An hour of Add/Remove Programs and double checking that old CD backups didn’t have anything extant on them (they didn’t) and I was left with… iTunes. That is now the only reason I have for booting up in Windows, and that is only because of the pesky DRM. Once iTunes Plus has been extended to cover the remaining five or six albums it owes me then I’m off. in the meantime I carefully stored my legacy software. One of my Windows installation CDs spent a few hours in the bin, before I found it a grateful home with someone else – software should be free, after all! (Don’t worry – for as long as I still have Windows installed on my machine I’ll be keeping my other license with me.)

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Tags: FSF, software, opensource, ubuntu

How we work

How we work

Originally uploaded by bouncysteve

The pressure grows at release time. Nigel does all the work because Rich is otherwise engaged.

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