April 2010

Beware This New Phishing Email

27 April 2010

I received 4 copies of this phishing email today: Hello, Your Google Adwords Account has stopped running this morning. Some of the ads have stopped running today (Tuesday, 27 April 2010). If you want to get your ad back up and running you need to optimize the campaign to improve the CTR. The link below [...]

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“Sweets For Life” – How Oxymoronic!

24 April 2010

It’s such a shame that such a worthy cause (Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital) uses such an inappropriate technique to raise money: selling unhealthy sweets to kids. Apart from the well documented negative health issues of sweets that are high in sugar, glucose syrup and E numbers, I also found hydrogenated vegetable oil (a source [...]

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This Busy Weekend

18 April 2010

It proved to be a busy weekend. I got the train to London on Saturday to see my old Uni mate who emigrated to Oz some 7 years ago and was back in Blighty for a visit. Only my train was cancelled so I had to get another via Bristol. I stopped off in Reading [...]

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Since when are fruit and vegs not carbohydrates?

14 April 2010

I was appalled listening to BBC Radio4’s “You and Yours” programme at lunch time today, in which they had a slot saying that “Nursery food – A big survey from the Local Government Organization has found that nurseries serve too much fruit and vegetables and not enough carbohydrates for growing toddlers. They’re calling for more [...]

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Life Expectancy Update

12 April 2010

Nearly 3 years ago, I did a life expectancy calculation, based on how I’d changed after 6 months of Crossfit and the Zone Diet. My life expectancy jumped from 75 years to 85 years, which was pretty impressive. Anyway, I thought I’d repeat the test 3 years on and see what it is now. Here [...]

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Sugar: The Bitter Truth

5 April 2010

Now that Easter is over and you’ve overdosed on Easter eggs, check out this video. Thanks to Jonathan Cannovan for posting this, which might just be one of the most important videos I’ve ever seen about sugar, or more specifically, about the now ubiquitous High Fructose Corn Syrup that is added to most processed food [...]

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Colin McNulty at the British Masters – Weightlifting Video

3 April 2010

Here’s the video I took at the British Masters last week: WPvideo 1.10 Sadly I only got the first half as the video camera died half way through, grrrr.

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