Month: December 2006
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Swing comparisons
My golf swing is always changing – as a beginner I’m trying to learn the good habits before I get too many bad habits settled in. Here are two videos taken about 6 weeks apart. In the video from today I can see that I’m getting more weight onto my back leg (which the pro…
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Exam Day
It’s exam day today. I would wish all of our first year students good luck, but really I don’t want luck to be a factor. I’d much rather that you had all done the work required to understand and store the information you’ll need to demonstrate a good to high level of competency. If you…
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BBC condones file-sharing (with DRM!)
It looks like the BBC will make many of its programmes available to download from a third-party file-sharing site: BBC article link.
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1 more day
Only one more day to go before I start my holiday… I’ve had some new additions to my office recently, and very helpful they are too: Big monitor, lots of pixels, lots of room. Everyone should have one, it makes working with multiple applications and windows so much faster. Great big whiteboard. I never have…
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iPod add-on ‘fails’ privacy test
What a load of rubbish. I cannot believe that the BBC are taking this seriously: BBC article link. This was slashdotted as a piece of research to be ridiculed weeks ago. In a nutshell, it says that one can intercept the information coming from a runner’s shoe via the Nike iPod Sport Kit and in…
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More rain
Today is the first Monday since August(ish) that we haven’t been teaching anatomy. To commemorate this I thought I’d have a lie in, and read a book before starting work a little later than usual. It *is* late December after all. When I did get on my bike to cycle in, it started to rain.…
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Christmas Pudding 10K
Yesterday I ran in the Christmas Pudding 10k “Challenge” (as the Brackla Harriers like to call it). As you can see, it was a proper cross-country 10km race with far too much sand (the race is infamous for its start up the largest sand dune in Europe). In lieu of a race report I’ve included…
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December Sun
We popped down to Caswell Bay today, as we’ve had the first day of blue sky in weeks. I took my camera: