Category: Link
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Swansea Wikis
Swansea. Would you like to know more? www.globalguide.org/wiki/index.php?title=Gower_Peninsula en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swansea
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Sod’s Law Revealed
I told you Sod’s Law was real – a descriptive formula for the law has been calculated, and by a Cardiff University lecturer no less. Mathematically it is expressed as: 1/8Ti x I 3/8 + O + SbP + M with: Task Importance (Ti) Inconvenience, and financial and emotional cost of task not going to…
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Blue C on BBC
Swansea University and the School of Medicine’s IBM Blue C supercomputer is noted on the BBC’s news website. We’re predicting UK avian flu scenarios. Link.
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The Triathlon Salmon
I’m reading an article on xtri.com about cortisol, stress, training and the salmon. It’s nicely relevant to www.dontbeasalmon.net (this website) and is similar to comments I’ve made in the past, but this time is linked in with problems of overtraining (the salmon “under-rests” for weeks in its attempt to reach its spawning grounds and as…
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Web perils advise switch to Macs
Funnily enough, as I’ve been complaining about scan, scan, scanning on PCs Sophos have commented that Macs are safer, and are likely to remain so for some time. BBC News article
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Tour 06
OK, so the football has finished (for England). Did you *really* think we’d make it all the way this year? Anyway, England left the tournament just in time for the start of the Tour de France. Get your live info updates from Eurosport, a live online video feed from rtl.lu (if you’re very lucky), your…
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The Paranormalists
Currently listening to podcast: The Legend of Brown Willy-Part 1 from the album “The Paranormalists” by Crocanapple Productions.
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New Spaced DVD
What the hell is this all about? A new compilation DVD box set for Spaced? They’re a bit late for cashing in on Shaun of the Dead, so are they trying to tell us that it’s over (after promising a third series) or are they suggesting that a new series is being considered? Simon Pegg,…
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Another thief shamed online
OK, so yes, I am taking a time out and catching up on the web, drinking a coke. It’s Friday and I’ve had a busy week. Anyway, here’s another tale of someone losing something expensive, and someone with low morals finding it and not returning it. Again they’re getting humiliated online. The beauty of this…