I have weighed 50.9kg consistently for the last 4 months. The body fat fluctuates around 16%-22% but the weight remains consistent. I still need to eat quite a lot to remain at this weight: i seem to have to eat as if i'm trying to gain weight just to remain the same and avoid losing any. I am generally quite healthy in what i eat, although i ( Read more... )

Time for a quick update before bed.

Life is reasonably good. I've been enjoying meeting up with nyecamden lately, and we both made a sort of personal challenge to be more sociable and take a few risks. On Sunday night i met up with an old friend who was playing in a band at a nearby pub. The band, Razorblade Reverse, was absolutely fantastic - their ( Read more... )

- I upgraded to IE7 last night.
- Oh we're on like IE twelve now ...!
- I thought you'd be impressed!
- Are you using XP yet?
- Yeah, i'm just getting to grips with Windows Explorer ... migrating from File Manager.
- Does your computer have a black background and green text?
- That's the way to go ...!

I found a clever photo today:


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Something incredible happened at work today: loads of people became infected with a tidying up bug! It started with two, who tidied their desks to a complete minimalistic approach. By the end of the day no less than nine people had made some degree of effort to tidy their desks ( Read more... )

The first week of the year has been a busy one, and very enjoyable. We got to work on Tuesday morning and we were all like, "Can anyone remember what we do here?!" ... but we soon picked it up again. We really got going with the automated regression testing this week. We're getting close to release 7.1.3 so a new build was done every night, and ( Read more... )

I got a magazine from WHSmith with the complete Mandriva Linux 2006 on 3 CDs, a great big poster of Tux the Penguin ... and the magazine's not bad either. It's got a great article about the Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program) - I'm really enjoying learning about it, and I found some brilliant new techniques in the article. I don't consider myself ( Read more... )