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90 minutes of aerobic exercise a day (Jul 29 2008 22:31 GMT)
The BBC has announced breathlessly that the secret of weight loss has been discovered: eat like a mouse and do at least 55 minutes of aerobic exercise a day. That will probably allow you to lose 10% of your body weight and keep it off for a year. My joy is unconfined. Of course, this weekend I had no trouble hitting the target at the glorious Warwick Folk Festival.
Money-Free Weekend (Jul 20 2008 21:43 GMT)
The concept of the money-free weekend came from the Simple Dollar. In truth, it was not entirely a money-free weekend. But it was pretty close. First, I must tell you that TOR.COM, a new entry into the focal point fanzine market, went live today.
More iPhone app reviews (Jul 19 2008 00:25 GMT)
Well, there seem to be lots of people out there on the web looking for iPhone app reviews, and I've just acquired a pile more apps. Obviously they're not cheaper by the dozen. But there you go. One general point about apps; many of the apps seem to run better if you reboot your phone first.
Shiny new iPhone (Jul 15 2008 16:21 GMT)
Yes, of course I have a 3G iPhone. I now have a proper, bona fide, Apple queueing experience under my belt also. Which resembled a silent movie in which primitive iPhone hunters of Walthamstow ran back and forth between the O2 shop and the Carphone Warehouse shop depending on which was currently being the least disorderly. CW won the day for me at least; they had more iPhones, and they were better organised.
Folk Rising 2 (Jun 30 2008 20:35 GMT)
Blatant commercial plug really; for Folk Rising 2, a two CD sampler from those nice people at Proper, featuring lots of people who've been nominated for the Horizon award for emerging folk singers or who ought to have been. I like sampler CDs because they come at a great price; in this case £6 for 23 tracks. Of the 23 up and coming artists, I've seen 9 live (some, like Mawkin, I've been following for years, and others, like Tom Kitching & Gren Bartley, I heard for the first time just recently).
The Dark Lord's Tower (Jun 11 2008 01:21 GMT)
Our train pulled into Northampton station, which was odd in itself, because it wasn't supposed to go anywhere near Northampton. I'd asked to sit at a table; I like the tables, and they seem to be dying out. They foster conversation on trains, which is, on the whole, a good thing. And I was whiling away this slow and deviated journey by conversing with the other people at my table.
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