Public Transport

What is it with public transport?! I get a train and a tram in to work and do my best to be courteous to those around me. Not everyone has the same idea it seems. One lad, sitting diagonally from me on the train had his music on ridiculously loud (I like to read during my commute and just can't concentrate when there's too much background noise). The same lad was munching away one some chewing-gum with his mouth open. You know when you try and block something out but you end up focussing only on the exact thing you're trying to block out? It...

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Gym

Arghhh! Where has my motivation gone? I can't seem to get up for doing much when I'm there... I think I need to keep a schedule or something to challenge myse...

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Skitch

You may have noticed that my posts that contain images are made with the help of Skitch.Skitch is both a web-side and client-side image hosting/editing program currently available only on Macs.The AppSkitch is generally focussed around the capturing, manipulation and editing of screenshots. When installed on a Mac, Skitch adds a menu bar item which looks like a small heart with a small drop-down arrow next to it. When the heart is directly clicked,...

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The Gringo Trail

I'm reading this superb book at the moment - The Gringo Trail by Mark Mann.The Gringo Trail - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!The story focusses on three backpackers who decide, rather than take the usual backpackers trail across Southeast Asia, to travel up South-America. So far, they've visited Colombia, Brazil, Ecudador (which sounds beautiful by the way), Peru and Chile.Having been to Venezuela on a recent holiday, I find that I can relate to this...

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GBK

GBK - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!Here's a voucher for a free meal at any Gourmet Burger Kitchen restaurant if anyone is interested. We went last night and had an excellent meal. Beware though, the Garlic Burger must use genetically modified garlic... your other half won't appreciate the smell on your breath 24 hours lat...

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Ecto out...

... MarsEdit in.Ecto was getting on my nerves - messing up formatting, not dealing properly with embedding thumbnails with Skitch. Time to give MarsEdit a chance.First impressions are that it appears a bit basic (not a bad thing for a basic blogger like myself) but set-up to my Blogger account was relatively simple. I'll post a more comprehensive review later on (if I can be bothered...

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Disappearing posts and other stuff...

I tried to post by email a few days ago but it seems that it was never received... I put a bit of effort in to that too..!As I can't be bothered re-typing everything from my last post, here's a quick summary:Geneva was beautiful. Click here to see some photos. The old city is particularly stunning but the place is so expensive! A lass of wine (a mere 100ml, 150ml short of what you'd normally get in a glass in the UK) is like a fiver! I don't think...

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Geneva

I'm back from my trip to Geneva - the city is beautiful, if a little 'sterile' in places. The hotel we stayed in was very nice, probably one of the best I've stayed in, even if Laurence, my colleague told me that I was staying in once of the older, more dated rooms! We managed to wrap up work at around four which meant I had a couple of hours to walk around the city centre before getting something to eat in the evening. The old town of Geneva is very beautiful and surprisingly quiet, I always expect city centres to be very busy - probably a...

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Ecto

I'm in the process of trying out a few Mac blog clients. After failing to get MarsEdit to work (can you believe they have no instructions how to set it up with Blogger?) I've stumbled upon ecto. It seems like a good app on the face of things, will give it a go for a while!I particularly like the ability to tag posts from within the client...Tagging within Ecto - Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!... & it's ease of integration with Skitch (as you can...

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Tuesdays

Is Tuesday the worst day of the week? On Monday you have the energy from a relaxed weekend and from Wednesday onwards you're looking forward to the weekend to come but Tuesday? Worst day of the week hands-down.Luckily I should be in for a good week though. I'm on a business trip to Geneva tomorrow (4AM start, eek) and will return on Thursday night. Friday is only a half day as my office is having a summer party - although the weather here in 'sunny'...

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Blog

I'm new to this whole blogging thing and have to confess that I find it a bit strange putting my thoughts down on the proverbial paper. I'll try and stick to it and hope to share my thoughts in the future...

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