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It seems we now live in “New Taipei Cit…

ByObblogatory December 25, 2010

It seems we now live in “New Taipei City” … but the Councillors can’t decide what the city should be called in English!

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Asthma: Only when you’ve had it

ByObblogatory April 13, 2010

You really don’t know how bad Asthma is until you’ve had it. I recently had a virally caused asthmatic period, though it seems to have resolved itself, after contracting a rather nasty bronchitis infection. I remember wandering through the streets of Brighton, and being felled by an Asthma attack. I didn’t even know what it…

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The Matrix Restaurant Scene

ByObblogatory May 25, 2024

The Matrix Restaurant Scene (youtube.com) Sad to say that the world doesn’t run according to our own sense of personal justice! Or at least… I don’t think it does. Could it be that the programming in my virtual world allows me to think that? Are we all just part of some ‘borg’ or virtualized gaming…

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The Squat Toilet: A healthier alternative?

ByObblogatory April 9, 2010

Squat toilets are a fact of life, for tourists who intend to travel to parts of the developing world such as China and India. While you will certainly come across regular toilets in many tourist class facilities, as soon as you head off the ‘beaten track’ you will come across this type of toilet. For…

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Friday: Double Split Exercise

ByObblogatory November 30, 2024January 17, 2025

84.3kgs was the recorded weight before I consumed a light cinnamon roll and a double helping of my own mashed potatoes. Oh, well! They were good! Range of 1K times: 11:11 to 10:38. Evening run was marginally faster across all split times. Probably muscles were warmed up! LOL! It was chilly last night, though! I…

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Scotland votes

ByObblogatory September 21, 2014

I hope you don’t imagine that I got up EARLY to watch it! I didn’t really. It was mid-morning here! And on the news continuously on Sky. I didn’t agree with the way Sky presented the results… tended to give a very election style coverage of the results… like it mattered which districts actually voted…

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E-books…

ByObblogatory May 11, 2006

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ e-books You can buy e-books from Barnes and Noble (www.bn.com) or download 1,200 free classics from the University of Virginia Library (etext.virginia.edu/ebooks). Better still, download the free Word 2000 add-in and create your own e-book from any document (www.microsoft.com/reader/info/selfpublish.htm). You can then set about converting the 10,000 free titles of Project Gutenburg (www.promo.net). You…

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