Asics Gel Kayano 16 Running Shoe

June 2, 2010 Sport

Tweet I have just been for a few runs in my Asics Gel Kayano 16′s. Very impressed as its certainly an improvement of the previous model I had (which I think was an older 13). Asics running shoes continue to be innovative and from what I can see a lot goes into product development from a technological [...]

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The Controversy around the Weil Osteotomy

May 29, 2010 Podiatry

Tweet The Weil Osteotomy is a surgical technique that is used to shorten a metatarsal of the foot. I have not paid much attention to it in the past. The latest Podiatry Today has a debate on it with two prominent DPM’s arguing for and against it. I did not realise that there was such [...]

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What has happened to personal responsibility?

May 28, 2010 News

Tweet Oh, the absurdity of it! A woman in Utah walked onto a highway following instructions from Google Maps. She got hit. Now she is suing Google and the driver that struck her. Take a look at the pictures proved by Search Engine Land of this highway. What was she doing walking on that, even [...]

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Alexa Website Rankings

April 28, 2010 On the Web

Tweet Alexa is a web company that collects data on websites and publishes the ranking of websites from number 1 (Google) to number 2 (Facebook) to number 1 692 102 (this site) to over 5 million based on the traffic they get. Where do they get there data from? They have several million users that [...]

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The T-Mobile Publicity Stunt

April 17, 2010 Funny

Tweet This will have to go down as a classic:

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The iPad is just a very big iPhone

April 7, 2010 Computers

Tweet After all the fuss over the launch of Apple’s iPad, the folks at Chipworks have pulled apart the iPad to reverse engineer what’s under the hood. Guess what? … the iPad is nothing more than a really big iPhone. There was no leap forward in technology. They claim: Apple has relied on tried and [...]

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There is no ‘Secret Sauce’ for Plantar Fasciitis

April 7, 2010 Podiatry

Tweet Plantar fasciitis is the most common musculoskeletal problem seen in the foot. I was intrigued recently when searching the web for something and came across a couple of eBooks on plantar fasciitis touting some magical cures from their secret sauce. The problem is they do not even give you a hint what the secret [...]

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How did Hitler respond to the news of Michael Jackson’s passing away

February 1, 2010 Funny

Tweet He was a really big fan: Maybe he needs to buy something Michael Jackson to cheer himself up.

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What not to call your child

January 29, 2010 Uncategorized

Tweet A recent paper in the Journal of Paediatric and Child Health, titled: Children’s Nomenclatural Adventurism and Medical Evaluation looked at if there was an association between a child’s first name and the likelihood of being admitted to hospital after presenting to a paediatric emergency department. They found that there was an increased risk for [...]

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The zealotry of barefoot running

January 20, 2010 Podiatry

Tweet   We were born to run. We had to run to survive. We had to run to hunt. We had to run to get from camp to camp. All that changed eventually (we evolved), then concrete got invented. To protect us from concrete, the running shoe got invented. Now with the obesity epidemic we [...]

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Nulled vBulletin

January 18, 2010 On the Web

Tweet I admin and moderate on a number of forums using the popular vBulletin software. It is the most popular forum software. I recently came across the term nulled vBulletin. I first thought that this was a different version of the vBulletin software. I looked into in and was surprsied at a number of things. [...]

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Climategate and how the left viewed the rights spin on it

January 14, 2010 Politics

Tweet Climategate is the name that has been given to an incident in which email servers at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia  in the UK were hacked. A number of the emails stolen seem to suggest that some of the data that the alleged global warming is based on may [...]

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Max and Milly

January 14, 2010 Family

Tweet Climategate, Pat Robertson and the Haiti earthquake, Google and China, Australia almost loosing the cricket … hey I took the twins to see Max and Milly.

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Pat Robertson and the Haiti Earthquake

January 14, 2010 News

Tweet We have the loony left, but the loony right is just as bad.  This fool, the TV evangelist Pat Robertson, has now decided that this weeks earthquake in Haiti which has speculated to have taken 100 000 lives was the result of a pact that the Haiti people made with the devil over 200 [...]

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Google and China

January 14, 2010 On the Web

Tweet Google had an agreement with the Chinese government to filter or censor the search results that Google provide in China. If they did not do that, they would have no business in China. Just why Chinese officials are so paranoid about the rest of the world and what they actually think they are protecting [...]

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