Saturday, March 31, 2007

Musings on losing weight

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For the last little while I've been on a diet. The telltale sign that I needed to lose weight was that my Bermuda Shorts, which fit me ...

Time for a change

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I started wondering why I don't update my blog as often as I should. On average I'm posting to it maybe every four days or so, some...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

The World Tour Part 6 - Last day of TAM

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TAM – the finale The last day of TAM is always for paper presentations. Months before the meeting JREF asked people to submit papers, and a...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

The World Tour Part 5 - TAM Day 2

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Okay, on to the second day of TAM, I’ll try to keep it a bit briefer so that I can continue on blogging about my life in general. I think T...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

The World Tour Part 4 - more TAM

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Okay, sorry about the delays. My mother was down visiting for the last two-and-a-half weeks so my days have been spent working or touring a...
Sunday, March 04, 2007

Stop Sylvia Browne

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Sylvia Browne is a well-known "psychic" and spiritualist, you can see her on the occasional talk show and has a number of books in...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

The World Tour Part 3 - TAM

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Okay sorry for the long delay. I was talking about TAM. Let’s see, who were the speakers for Day 1 of the presentations . . . Michael Sher...
Thursday, February 08, 2007

The World Tour Part 2 - Las Vegas

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As I mentioned in a previous entry every year the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) holds a conference for skeptics and critical thi...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

The World Tour Part 1 – Canada

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Flying all the way from Doha to Calgary was a real chore. A 9-hour red-eye to Heathrow followed by a 7-hour layover (which turned into 8 du...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Okay I'm back!

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Okay I’m back. Geez whatta trip. I had a blast. Sorry everyone I realize that I didn’t post to the blog but there wasn’t much opportunity. ...
Thursday, January 04, 2007

Vacation time!

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Okay I leave tomorrow for Canada so posting will be intermittant (like I've been posting every day anyway, right?) I'll be in Calga...
Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Dubai

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Around Christmas time I took a long weekend trip to Dubai to see a couple of friends and check the city out for the first time. (As an asid...
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Sunday, December 31, 2006

It's . . . friggin chilly!

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After five months of 40+ degree heat (with 80+% humidity) I never figured Doha would ever get the least bit chilly. I was told that duri...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006

In tribute to Carl Sagan

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10 years ago today the world lost a wonderful person. Carl Sagan might be best known (by the older crowd) as the host of Cosmos and his re...
Sunday, December 17, 2006

Asian Games - badminton

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Okay badminton is a game that I don't think I need to explain to everyone. The game is popular in East Asia so the matches that I saw h...
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Asian Games - boxing & wushu

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Okay I've combined both boxing & wushu because both were similar. Now there are different forms of wushu, I went with a buddy of mi...
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Saturday, December 16, 2006

Asian Games - Kabbadi

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Man it's been raining a lot here. The last two weeks have reminded me of Vancouver, it seems like everyday it has been rainy and drizzl...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Asian Games - Sepaktakraw

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Okay, before the Asian Games started I had never even heard of sepaktakraw but it sounded interesting so I bought some tickets. In truth I...
Sunday, December 10, 2006

Asian Games - diving

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So last night I watched men's synchonised diving. I know a bit about diving from watching Olympic coverage a couple of years ago, enoug...

Asian Games - tennis

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Now as pretty much everyone knows I love tennis. So I couldn't pass up a chance to watch the tennis at the Asian Games. The top player...