Month: August 2006

  • Superman No.1

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    Read the first edition of Action Comics, and the first Superman story scanned for you online: here.

  • Disconnection disconnections

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    How hard is it to cancel a service via modern company phone systems? I recently signed up for a contract with TalkTalk after discussion with a sales rep as to how it would cut my phone bill. After studying my phone bills in more detail and finding a £3.95 monthly charge that would appear after…

  • Sunny Mornings

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    I really didn’t want to come in to work today. We’d had an excellent extended weekend and I was woken by Jack at about 7.15 this morning. I was nice and comfortable at home and Jack was really sad about the idea of me going to work for the day (I’ll aim not to work…

  • Drop an iPod in the toilet and bring down a plane.

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    This is pretty nuts, and seems to be corroborated by Canadian press. A young man on a flight accidentally dropped his iPod in the toilet, which was noticed later. This caused the flight to take an emergency landing, all the passengers to be interrogated by customs, the police and the bomb squad, and the plane…

  • Long Weekend

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    I’ve been taking a nice long weekend. It’s a bank holiday weekend that crept up on me, so I took advantage of it and extended it. My dad has been able to visit, and as I’ve been to the driving range quite a lot recently he took me out on a couple of rounds of…

  • Grandad’s visiting

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    Swings!

  • Laptops

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  • Thwack!

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  • Running Music

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    I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago. I don’t listen to my iPod when I’m running or cycling, but I know that many people do. Kim won’t go without hers. I also know that interval training in both running and cycling are very important in developing speed and muscle energy systems. Running intervals…

  • Bat to work

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    I’m back in work again this week, as we have a week of resit exams for the first years. The first exam that I was involved in today had bats flying round the room half-way through. I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come this week. We may have a plague of locusts…