October 2009

Iphone WordPress App Post

27 October 2009

And so it is that I sit in my study, on my iPhone, trying out the WordPress App to write this Blog post. I have to say, it’s a pretty cool app. Sure I could have used the iphone’s safari browser to login to my blog, but this wordpress app is a much faster and [...]

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Weekly Friday Fun – Parenting Failure Photos

23 October 2009

Failblog is a very funny website, here are some of the photos people have taken of dubious parenting abilities. They shouldn’t really make you laugh, but they do:

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Another week, another niggle

22 October 2009

True to form, another weightlifting only week comes and I’ve picked up another niggle. A bit more of a niggle actually, yesterday I could barely walk! I have no idea what I’ve done, I only know that my right hip is extremely painful if I move it a certain way. Obviously I’m trying not to [...]

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Weird Facts about the English Language

19 October 2009

I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me that the Oxford English Dictionary would have a FAQ page, with all the weird and wonderful questions that people ask about the English language, but it didn’t. So when I stumbled on the Ask Oxford FAQ page, it was a rather sad, but nonetheless fascinating read. [...]

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Weekly Friday Fun – Cute Animal Videos

15 October 2009

A real life teddy bear: Wildlife photographer gets rather closer to his subject than he bargained for! A series of fun skits done to animal videos by the BBC:

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Weightlifting Program – Week 5: 82-87%

14 October 2009

Day 1 Snatch Doubles – 5 sets up to 80% = 62.5 Clean and Jerk Doubles – 7 sets up to 80% = 80 Dead Pull of Clean – 5 sets of 3 reps up to 110kg Front Squat – 7 sets of 3 reps up to 85% = 105 Day 2 Front Squat + [...]

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Einstein’s Riddle

11 October 2009

The story behind Einstein’s riddle is that Albert Einstein created it in the late 1800s, and claimed that 98% of the world population couldn’t solve it. Personally I think that both claims are rubbish, but hey, it’s a good story! Don’t let that detract you from an entertaining puzzle though, approach it a bit like [...]

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Weekly Friday Fun – Dogs, Cats and Bands

9 October 2009

This short video of a dog sleeping is funny, but only for the first half: WPvideo 1.10 This is a great video of 3 cats fighting over 1 steak. I love the grey one chewing it whilst the other 2 play tug of war! Shame the own interfered at the end: WPvideo 1.10 However, not [...]

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Olympic Weight Lifting Training – Week 4

5 October 2009

Whether it was because I was rushing to try to fit in a Crossfit WOD afterwards, or whether it was just because day 3 of week 3 was a very heavy day with a load of work, I don’t know know, but either way, I managed to tweak my back on Saturday. Not good. To [...]

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Weekly Friday Fun – More Liv Films

2 October 2009

Some months ago I posted what is one of the best spoof videos I’ve seen on the net: a beer diet video. This week’s Friday Fun videos are from Liv Films, the same makers: WPvideo 1.10 And another funny one about Michael Phelp’s pot photo: WPvideo 1.10

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