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Thursday, February 09, 2006

It's been a while

Well, it's been a while since my last post. I just looked what my last post was, and it was really boring! Just some crap about riser weights. That kind of stuff is going onto del.icio.us/hywel now. Anyhoo, I suppose I should update the world on what's been happening lately. I've just come out of the hospital, so those of you who I haven't told yet, I'll phone sooner or later to tell what. This is why I have some time at home to write for a bit - the last couple of months have been a bit crazy at work and at home, so not much time to dedicate to writing a diary.... the good news is the operation went great, but I'll be stuck at home for a few days until I can walk around properly. Lots of painkillers is making it bearable!

Charlie the dog is doing fine right now. He had to go to his own doctor's recently, basically to have a giant pimple removed from his head. Unfortunately due to his age he didn't respond too well to the pre-med, so the vet decided not to go ahead with the pimple-ectomy. Charlie therefore still has a big pimple. On the upside, the vet said he's got at least 2 more years, which is more than the 3 weeks he supposedly had left when we got him. I'm going to try some of his dog-food - there must be something in it.

Friday, August 05, 2005

Riser weights

From a thread on the Sagittarius site...

Riser Length Weight
Inches Grams Lbs Oz
Samick Mizar 23 920 2 0
Stylist Sapphire 23 992 2 3
Stylist Supreme 25 992 2 3
Merlin Apex 1080 2 6
Yamaha Eolla 25 1095 2 7
BMG Extreme 24 1100 2 7
Win & Win KAP Evolution 2 23 1100 2 7
Win & Win KAP Surprise 24 1100 2 7
Stylist Supreme 25 1106 2 7
Win & Win Winact 23 1120 2 8
Hoyt Radian 1130 2 8
Petron S3 23 1134 2 8
PSE X-Factor 25 1134 2 8
Yamaha Super Feel Forged 23 1145 2 8
Hoyt GM TD4+ 25 1150 2 9
Samick Agulla 25 1150 2 9
Hoyt Elan 25 1160 2 9
Martin Aurora 24 1162 2 9
Best Zenit 23 1190 2 10
Win & Win Toutall 25 1190 2 10
Hoyt Aerotec 23 1191 2 10
Hoyt Matrix 23 1191 2 10
Bernardini Nilo 23 1200 2 10
Win & Win KAP Winstar 25 1200 2 10
Win & Win Winact 25 1200 2 10
Bernadini Ghibli 25 1210 2 11
Spigarelli Explorer 23 1215 2 11
Petron S3 25 1219 2 11
Bernardini Nilo 25 1220 2 11
Bernardini Tuareg 25 1220 2 11
Sky Conquest 1230 2 11
Spigarelli Explorer 25 1230 2 11
Hoyt Matrix 25 1247 2 12
PSE Universal 1250 2 12
Hoyt Avalon 1270 2 13
PSE Intrepid 25 1270 2 13
Samick Agulla Ultra 25 1275 2 13
Bernardini Aladin 25 1300 2 14
Best Moon 25 1300 2 14
Win & Win KAP Certi-Q 25 1300 2 14
Hoyt Aerotec 25 1304 2 14
Browning Olympian 1320 2 15
PSE Zone 1320 2 15
Win & Win Exfeel 25 1320 2 15
Win & Win Infinite 25 1320 2 15
Green Horn Victory B+ 25 1335 2 15
Yamaha SFF 2 1340 2 15
Best Zenit 25 1350 3 0
Spigarelli 2001 V.B.S. 1380 3 1
Samick Masters 25 1400 3 1
Spigarelli 2001 25 1400 3 1
Win & Win Xpert 25 1400 3 1
Hoyt Axis 25 1550 3 7
KG Nemesis 24 1758 3 14

Thursday, August 04, 2005

Border security, UK Style

We're stopping them coming in, but we can't stop them getting out. A great little analysis on the inanity of UK border controls and IT.

The Crash is coming and there is nothing we can do about it.

Gitterdammerung (The Twilight of the Gits)
"...first bear in mind the difference between today's greedy git versus someone hit by the Crash of '29. Our forbearers maybe lived it up too much in the Roaring Twenties, but they had also survived the trenches of the Somme, so they were better accustomed to hardship than today's spoilt Baby Boomer who suffers anxiety attacks while stuck in traffic. Will the gits buckle down and work three shifts a day as my grandfather did? Or throw all their toys out of the cot and turn nasty? No prizes for guessing."
from a Social Affairs Unit weblog.

Friday, July 15, 2005

My 400th Post - and my first video file

Well, this is my 400th post, so I thought I'd put up a video file for a change. This video is of the Phoenix Band at Stockton Heath walking day. Walking Day is held each year at many villages and towns in this part of North-West England, principally in Warrington.

The video shows the highlight point in Walking Day, when the band stops in Victoria Square in the centre of Stockton Heath, and the baton man (who incidentally works at Daresbury Laboratory), does his stuff.

Jesus in a Peruvian sand dune

Can you see Jesus in this satellite photo from Google Maps?

Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Wired News: Blogging + Video = Vlogging

Blogging + Video = Vlogging more internet madness.

Home-grown suicide bombers

Today's news has confirmed what most people were thinking: the London attacks were performed by British suicide bombers. And these are the first suicide bombs on British soil.

Given the information that is available from the police, it doesn't take much to put two plus two together to work out what these guys did. They hatched a plan up in Leeds, travelled down to Luton, took the bombs out of their car and then went their separate ways from King's Cross. Three of them killed themselves at 8:50 along with their victims. Perhaps the fourth one bottled it, then travelled around in an agitated state (according to one eye-witness) before blowing himself up on a bus. Was this fourth one deliberate or accidental?

I've been keeping an eye on the official victim list: although I checked on all my friends that I'm in regular contact with, I have this nagging doubt that someone I know might have been on one of the trains/bus. I guess that's a feeling shared by many people.

But, the attacks won't stop me going to London. See you there next week.

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

The Sorting Door Project

The Sorting Door Project - an interesting study into how multiple RFID tags can be used to reduce your privacy.

Monday, July 11, 2005

Truth In Cosmetic Surgery Blog

Truth In Cosmetic Surgery - an interesting website about how bad plastic surgery is.

RSS to JS

Free RSS/RDF to JavaScript Conversion Tool for Webmasters. Hmm. Could be handy.

Fingernails store personal information

Fingernails store personal information. An amazing article on biometrics from optics.org:

'Secure optical data storage could soon literally be at your fingertips thanks to work being carried out in Japan. Yoshio Hayasaki and his colleagues have discovered that data can be written into a human fingernail by irradiating it with femtosecond laser pulses. Capacities are said to be up to 5 mega bits and the stored data lasts for 6 months - the length of time it takes a fingernail to be completely replaced.'

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