August 2009

Being Fat Shrinks Your Brain

28 August 2009

This video from Sky, starts with a short report on dementia research that has shown that those with a high BMI in their middle age, have physically smaller brains later in life! Ok, we all know that BMI is a very flawed system of measuring obesity for anyone who resembles an athletic type, but for [...]

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Friday is not fun without the internet

28 August 2009

Been having a mare this week as the Sky broadband router in my lodgings has given up the ghost. As a result, I’ve not been able to surf the net at home for days, so no Friday Fun post today. Soz.

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Low Carb Diets ‘Damage Arteries’

27 August 2009

So blares the headline at the BBC news article the other day. What really annoys me though, is that this is tabloid medicine at its worse. Actually the “science” isn’t a lot better to be honest. I decided to investigate further. This link gives more detail on the story (though not enough by far): http://www.bidmc.org/News/InResearch/2009/August/LowCarbDiets.aspx [...]

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Friday Fun – Catching a Laptop in your Butt

21 August 2009

When I first started watching this, I thought it was faked, then I wasn’t so sure. I reckon those laptops must be just the cases though, even a

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Yorkshire Masters Weightlifting Video

18 August 2009

The competition at the weekend went very well. Interestingly, it didn’t feel like it went that well, considering I missed half the lifts. However the results speak for themselves. I had 3 goals, in descending order of importance: Lift 165 total to qualify for the BWLA British Masters Weightlifting competition in 2010 (77kg body weight [...]

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Competition Day – How’s My Weight?

16 August 2009

My primary focus of the last 8 weeks has been to lose weight for the an Olympic Weightlifting competition, the Yorkshire Masters. I had decided to try to lose weight and drop out of the 85kg bodyweight category, into the 77kg category, which would make it easier to qualify for the 2010 British Masters weightlifting [...]

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Friday Fun – Share Your Microsoft Pain

14 August 2009

This is a great video about how you can share your Window’s frustrations with the Microsoft developers who caused the problem directly:

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Another Competition, Another Injury!

10 August 2009

The Yorkshire Masters competition is on Sunday and just like last competition, I’ve managed to injure myself 2 weeks before! Last time it was a shoulder injury, which fortunately didn’t affect my lifting. This time I’ve strained my neck doing a new exercise last week. I was stupid really, I should have known better not [...]

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Friday Fun – Men Can Multitask Video

6 August 2009

This cracked me up: WPvideo 1.10 However, the following video is just shocking: WPvideo 1.10

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At the Gym at 06:20!

5 August 2009

I didn’t make it down the gym last night, as work finished late. So I went this morning before work. Yes, I can reliably inform you that the world does actually exist at 05:30 in the morning, contrary to popular belief, and driving is actually a pleasure on the empty roads. Yes, 06:20 saw me [...]

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