September 2007

Watching this Video could change your life.

26 September 2007

It’s not every day you come across the last talk of a dying man. Ok, we’re all dying right, but 47 year old Randy Pausch knows he’s only got a few months to live, and so does the 500 strong audience at Caregie Mellon university at which he’s a professor. In this, his final lecture, [...]

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Crossfit Total – It’s all the wrong way round!

25 September 2007

I did a Crossfit Total today, that’s 3 single lifts each of: Back Squat Shoulder (Military) Press Deadlift Then you add up the weight of the best lift you did in each. However for some reason, I managed to do an odd thing today: I lifted more on the Back Squat, than I did on [...]

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Weekend Stag Do

24 September 2007

It was a very grown up stag do: we were all 30-40 something and spent the day at Mountain Mayhem, doing Hover Crafting and Tomcar Off Roading. The hovercraft were awesome fun, very highly recommended, and the off road driving was unlike anything I’ve ever done before. Checkout some of the pictures. There’s just something [...]

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Friday Fun

21 September 2007

This is one of the best adverts I’ve seen is a long time. A combination of loads of preparation and some CGI: WPvideo 1.10 Brylcreem’s Effortless TV Ad And just to balance it with another extremely clever and artistic advert, this one is “The Wind”: WPvideo 1.10 The Wind

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I found an Intruder in my House last night!

18 September 2007

Last night, the wife went to the Gym for the 7-8pm session, leaving me home with the kid. She hadn’t been feeling well, so I decided to give her a slightly earlier bed time. So at 7:30 I was upstairs reading my daughter a bed time story, when I heard an odd noise. I couldn’t [...]

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Top 90th Percentile in 500m Concept2 Rower!

17 September 2007

Last week I posted that I got a 1:29.1 for a 500m Concept2 Row at Crossfit Manchester. Friday I beat it: 1:27.5 !! I don’t think I could move for about 10 minutes afterwards mind, my legs were killing me and I had an instant headache, but I am well chuffed with that. I put [...]

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A Day on the Zone Diet Plan

14 September 2007

I thought I’d post up yesterdays Zone Diet food intake, just for fun and your criticism. It’s never a bad idea to get people to critique you once is a while, so feel free to point out any mistakes you think I’m making. I’m on 17 blocks per day. Breakfast – 5 blocks 5oz Cold [...]

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An Astonishing Website Promotion Success Story

13 September 2007

My current job at Intrinsic Marketing, is to promote other peoples websites. This is a multi faceted role that covers many aspects of how to improve website Return on Investment (ROI). From on-site factors like layout, keyword density, titles, shopping cart process, customer experience etc., through to off-site promotion techniques like Pay Per Click advertising [...]

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How Crossfit has improved my Concept2 500m Rowing time

12 September 2007

We don’t do a lot of rowing in Crossfit, but some. I think if I had to guess, I’d say once every week or two. Despite this however, my rowing time on the concept2 has improved dramatically. My previous Personal Best at a 500m row was 143.9, set sometime back in April time, which at [...]

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Exploiting Google’s Algorithm to knobble your SEO Competitors

6 September 2007

Last week I wrote and released an article on how it is possible to kick a website out of Google’s Search Engine Ranking Pages (SERP’s), and how to defend yourself against it. I released it under the title: How to Defend your Website from the Google Duplicate Proxy Exploit and under the psedonym “Sophie White”. [...]

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