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A intermittent stream of bangs and whistles that started as soon as it got dark (5pm) or thereabouts.
Save your fireworks until midnight you stupid wankers. It's annoying to hear sporadic firework and firecracker explosions for a whole day and I guess especially annoying for anyone with dogs.
It seems like news of Greece and other EU nation states on the brink of collapse were the hot topic of 2010-2012, now it seems you hardly hear about them, everything at least for me seems to have gone eerily silent.
It was but a few years ago we were talking in billions and trillions of money being handed out like candy, this depression would make the 1930's look like a molehill. I just can't believe that it isn't over and everything is ok.
Every now and again I see positive articles for the UK economy about how it's going to be strong economic growth making it sound like good times are right around the corner.
I'm not well enough informed about the UK or world economies to know if everyt
So I already hate iOS7, useless changes such as the battery charge symbol being beside and not on the battery make you think for a moment it's not charging to folders that now page as they're smaller..
And now I update my iPad and the volume control display doesn't show as once it did.
What a load of crap this is. IOS7 looks like a children's toy, much preferred how it looked before and now seems to get only more broken.
I think I can safely say this'll be the last bit of apple hardware I will be buying.
Having watched game 5 of the Anand/Carlsen match I can't help but wonder that chess could be a heck of a lot more exciting. It seems to me (the layman majority) that some simple changes would make this game a lot more enjoyable to watch for people of all skill levels.
Spectators seem so starved of interesting play that game 5 was heralded as truly interesting because it had a few unexpected moves in 5 hours of play.
The problem seems to be that chess these days is such well trodden ground by now, having watched game 5 and now some of game 6, there's just not enough excitement or dynamism to make it fun to watch.
Surely promoting a variant as the standard, IMO shuffle chess (aka chess960)
Well I had wanted to do this for a while now, a solo tour of the USA, San Francisco to Boston.
I'm by no means a touring expert, I've done a few but nothing as long as this. I'm more of a roadie/triathlete so I learnt a lot on the way (how to slow down and enjoy the ride for one), but better that than were the things I saw and the people I met, I'd only ever been to the really touristy places of America so although this was my fifth time here, this trip would be the first real venturing into "real" America.
I arrived in early August and stayed with a friend in SF for some days, the next day right off the plane I was hit by a bout of gastroenteritis (yay!), but soon recovered but it added a
The Celtman Extreme Scottish Triathlon is in the extreme family of triathlons which include: the Norseman (I'm sure you've heard of that one) and the Swissman. Often the word "extreme" is a marketing buzzword banded around but in this case it's well justified and as I and 150 or so other competitors found out this Saturday just gone, it was going to be a tough day out in the Scottish highlands...
Pre-race
Having packed the bike box, the ridiculous amount equipment that goes with any triathlon I got my arse over to Inverness on the plane the laborious part of the process was done.
I picked up the rental car that we would use for the race, I managed to rope in my brother as my supp
