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If you remember yesterday’s prognostications on dieting and my five rules from yesterday, you’ll know that this is day #1. Again. 1. Drink more water: drink 1 liter of water a day. I managed to drink quite a lot of fluids, but I failed miserably on this task. I only hit the 1/2 liter mark,…
Kinmen 10K here I come! Ready or not! So it’s 10K, but the cutoff is 2 hours. I think I can make that with a bit more practice. I’m already running 2.5k regularly enough in 22~23 minutes. I can run as far as 5k in about 50minutes. I can easily walk the rest. But I…
Blast from the past: 2013!
18042009184, originally uploaded by obblogatory. I took this nice little snap on my Nokia N79 camera phone. It worked out well, because I ran out of space on my memory card on my regular camera! Pretty handy but not 100% reliable. I lost a couple of snaps because I took the pictures too fast! But…
Our little business has been using the same phone for nearly three years: a base system with two handsets that are wireless. It’s a traditional analogue signal telephone system made by Philips. Just as we were clearing up for Chinese New Year, the units became less and less functional, and the base unit developed a…