Archive for March, 2007

2007

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Mar

Outside the Comfort Zone

By Gaz under Martial Arts, Personal Growth

You might define lifestyle as encompassing all the things that you spend your time engaged in, that is whatever it is that you do regularly defines your particular lifestyle. If you take a minute to think about some of those things, and how you feel when you’re doing them, that is what I’m calling [...]

2007

30

Mar

Reading e-books comfortably on a Mac

By Gaz under Technology

Inspired recently by the ongoing buzz surrounding the TextMate editor, I bought the e-book TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac by James Edward Gray II from Pragmatic Bookshelf. If, like most people, you find reading e-books to be far less pleasant an experience than reclining with a dead-trees edition, this tip might make e-book [...]

2007

29

Mar

Week of Martial Arts: Results

By Gaz under Martial Arts

Last week I documented my Week of Martial Arts, where I attended a different martial arts class at my nearby Gloucester GL1 Leisure Centre every night of the week (more or less!), in order to pick one style to devote the next 6 months of study to.

And the winner is (drumroll please): White Dragon Tai [...]

2007

27

Mar

Week of Martial Arts: White Dragon Tai Chi

By Gaz under Martial Arts

Last night was the last night of my Week of Martial Arts, where I attend a different martial arts class at my nearby Gloucester GL1 Leisure Centre every night this week, and then pick my favourite to devote 6 months of study to.

I’ve broken my own rules slightly for this one, because they have moved [...]

2007

25

Mar

Custom Themes, Icons, Banners and Logo’s for Your Website

By Gaz under Announcements, Technology

You might have noticed the gorgeous fighting fella’s icons I’ve been using for my Week of Martial Arts posts, reproduced below for your enjoyment:

Tae Kwon Do

Ninjutsu [...]

2007

24

Mar

How to Stop Spam: Dead!

By Gaz under Technology

It’s easy. Don’t use email.

I’m not being flippant here either. Let’s be honest, the medium is almost dead already, so why prolong the inevitable. 90% of email traffic on the web is spam nowadays, which is about the worst signal to noise ratio I have to deal with in my whole digital [...]


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