The zealotry of barefoot running

January 20, 2010 Podiatry

  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 may [...]

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Nulled vBulletin

January 18, 2010 On the Web

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. Firstly, [...]

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Climategate and how the left viewed the rights spin on it

January 14, 2010 Politics

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 be [...]

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Max and Milly

January 14, 2010 Family

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

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 years [...]

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Google and China

January 14, 2010 On the Web

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 their [...]

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Google Flu?

January 9, 2010 On the Web

Say what? What will Google come up with next? Over at Google.org they have developed a tool called Google Flu Trends. They use search data and look at the frequency and volume of what people are searching for to spot a trend. In this case, they look for trends in the search for things like [...]

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Twitter Wit

January 6, 2010 Books

Are you one of the few people on this planet who does not know what Twitter is? Twitter is a social networking site in which you submit up to 140 words about what you are doing for your followers to see. There are Twitter Forums and plenty advice on how websites can use twitter to [...]

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The O’Reilly Factor

December 30, 2009 Politics

What do you think of the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News? Me? Much to the dismay of a number of my US friends, I enjoy it! It is good entertainment and despite what the critics think of Bill O’Reilly, the O’Reilly Factor is the number one ranked show on cable news, by a long margin. [...]

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Cartoons on TV for Education

December 28, 2009 Uncategorized

When I grew up some of the cartoons we got to watch on what limited television there was, was things like Secret Squirrel, Atom Ant and Scooby Doo. There was absolutely no educational component to those shows, they were just pure entertainment and fun. At that time there were no do gooders around then trying to [...]

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Tiger Woods

December 27, 2009 Sport

Everyone has had something to say on Tiger Wood’s indiscretions and the break down of his marriage. On one hand, it has ruined what appeared to be a happy family and on the other hand he is probably living the fantasy of a very large number of males. Spnosors have dumped him, so it will hurt [...]

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Racially motivated!

December 23, 2009 News

When I hear a news media report and a public outcry about a sentence or comments made by a judge I always err on the side of caution and assume that the judge is in possession of the complete information, so have a rationale for the decision and comments in the media may not have [...]

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2009 Christmas Photo

December 21, 2009 Family

This is the 2009 xmas photo of the twins. They have not long turned 3. I can not get enough of them. They can not get enough of me. They always want me to put the pewter down so they can get more cuddles. Merry Christmas everyone.

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Forums

December 21, 2009 On the Web

Forums are fun places to hang out at; learn things at; ask questions at;  and meet up with people either who argree or disagree with each other on topics. I have been known to frequent a number of different forums on a regular basis. I also manage some (eg Podiatry Arena). I have had many [...]

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