Archive for November, 2008

big jumps for little me

My gym blog has just clicked over 100k visits. I’m very happy, its a milestone, I’ve never had 100k of anything before – the place has been the most successful thing I’ve ever done. It is a great feeling knowing that the stuff I preach to people about being able to go from zero to [...]

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Gym withdrawal symptoms

Gym withdrawal symptoms, originally uploaded by mmapstone.

So I hopped online and henry asked if I was going to gym tonight, ‘no can’t make it’ I said ‘I’m holed up in a shoe box in sheffield’ He told me to stop being such a lightweight and to do something anyway… then take a photo of it. [...]

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30 Slices

You can tell a lot about someone from the books that they read. With that in mind, here’s 30 books I’ve not bought or read (yet… in no particular order):

The London Eye Mystery
The Knife Of Never Letting Go
The Other Hand
Timequake
The Man Without
The Housekeeper
Illusions
Screwed
DeNiros Game
Catcher In The Rye
The Shack
Perverting The Course Of Justice
The Book Of Atheist [...]

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Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeextreme kayaking!

Thanks to the world of portable video, democratic access and instant distribution, incredible pictures of this activity comes available to the public. 
The Welsh Canoeing Association condems it, Welsh Water strictly forbids it, but kids (and adults) all over the world are watching the video of extreme kayaking on the news and saying ‘I wanna have a go at [...]

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bring human emotion online

Don’t confuse things by giving me options, we’re all looking for an emotional connection.
Nothing online taps into that. How long has the emoticon been around? How long has it been used, missused, and ignored. People want their emotions to been seen and heard – where is it? why don’t we have it? its one of [...]

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Charter for Compassion

TED just threw this out to hundreds of thousands of people, and I instantly wanted to share it. But something else happened. I figured out why I have this place and type here. I want people to know who I am, when they cannot talk to me, or when they have never met me. 
this video [...]

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Nanowrimo day 12: 20k

 
So far so good hey? in a couple of days time i’ll have hit the halfway mark and Wooo! start enjoying the slippery slope to success all the way to the finish post go me – yay!
My plot has gone from nothing to a full structure to throw it out the window and [...]

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watching Obama win in the UK

I woke up at 3am, flicked on the tv and watched Obama win. I am sat in a Hotel in Milton Keynes, thankfully witnessing the first black president of the USA. A historic moment worth capturing imo.

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Nano: day 2 – 4160 words

So far so good. Better than last year where I started half heartedly 1 month and 4 days late. 
I find keeping up with the word count easy because my typing speed is pretty good. I’m sure a lot of less dexterous people fall at that hurdle. Being able to type fairly close to the speed [...]

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