January 2010

My response to the “Eat a High Carb” diet argument

31 January 2010

Whilst on Facebook recently, I came across a friend who has just started Crossfit and was being advised by his mates to start taking supplements, e.g. creatine, and eating plenty of carbs, specifically bananas were mentioned. I couldn’t help but give a balancing point of view and quoted the Crossfit 1 sentence diet of: “Eat [...]

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How to get 500 free Nintendo Wii points for downloadable games, Wii internet browser and BBC iPlayer

30 January 2010

Today I came across this “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours, and we both get 500 free Wii points to spend on games.” wheeze: You may have heard, Nintendo launched a program recently to encourage Wii users to connect their Wii online, called the Connection Ambassador program. After you get connected, if you enter [...]

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Lights Out – Book Review

24 January 2010

I can highly recommend Lights Out by T.S. Wiley, it is well worth reading… Chapter 9, Damage Control! To be honest, this is the hardest book I’ve read in the last 5 years. I nearly put it down many times. To get the full effect of this book, you really need to buy it its [...]

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Avoiding Sugar is Nigh on Impossible

24 January 2010

When I said one of my news year’s resolutions was to go sugar free, I was mostly thinking about sweets and chocolate. But I also had in mind to minimise the amount of food I ate that had added sugar. Now I consider that I most eat a Paleo type diet anyway i.e. meat, veg, [...]

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Update on the Kid’s Operation

21 January 2010

Hospitals annoy me. If you’re not up to speed, my daughter had a lump removed last year, which the hospital (after dithering for several months) decided was cancerous just before Xmas. So she was booked in for a repeat surgery basically, this time to go in with the view of cutting out a tumour, rather [...]

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Ouch Ouch Ouch – Crossfit kicks my butt

19 January 2010

Going back to the Cardiff gym this week, for the first time since November, was always going to be messy but I’m as sore as I’ve ever been right now. I decided to do workouts from the main Crossfit.com site. I can’t necessarily follow their daily scheme, either because like today, it’s a rest day, [...]

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Another fat bashing article gets it wrong

18 January 2010

Reading The Metro paper on the train this morning, an article headline blares: “Butter is utterly bad for everyone, says [heart bypass] surgeon” The argument is the usual tripe about reducing saturated fat, which leads to cholesterol and fatty deposits round the heart. Notice this guy isn’t even a dietician (not that that would make [...]

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No More Friday Fun Videos

14 January 2010

As part of trying to sort out what’s important in life, I’m not going to be posting any more Friday Fun videos. Partly because it can sometimes consume and hour or 2 to put the post together (however fun browsing videos online is!) but also because they don’t bring any extra traffic to this blog. [...]

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New A-Team Film Trailer

13 January 2010

I have grave concerns that this is a remake that shouldn’t be made. I also think they’ve probably given away the high moment of the film in the trailer. But either way, this will get some people salivating:

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Friday Fun Video – Redneck Dating

8 January 2010

Oh my, this is the funniest thing I’ve seen all year (lol): WPvideo 1.10

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