Spot of jogging

Ran my first marathon yesterday. Clocked in at 4:28. Enjoyable experience, lots of support from people and the weather was perfect. Feeling OK after it and reckon I'll probably do it again some time.

Power of drivers

I noticed today that when I have my ATI Catalyst Control program running in the background (it is the driver frontend for my ATI graphics card), the overall power usage of my computer setup is 209 Watts, but if I close that program, the power usage rises to 221 Watts. I know what your thinking: wow.

Cool, what phone is that?

Am now rolling with the Nokia E65 and loving it. Proper little smartphone with Wi-Fi. Have started of with 100MB/month plan, let's see how that goes :-). Comes with Skype, SlingPlayer, and Orb, a remote PC controller as standard. It is running gMail/gCalendar/gMaps all nicely so far. 2GB microSD in the post; fun times.

Table for two, sir.

Mmmm, that's some good eating. Went out for a spot of dinner on the green there Tuesday. Damn fine steak and a Neuf-du-Pape, the Beastie boys would have been proud. (Intercontinental when I eat french toast; fine malt lyrics I say).

Shopping oddities

So, there I am; traipsing around the supermarket when I happen across a counter with some pretty exotic items. 1350 Euro per kilogram... pretty serious stuff there. As an aside I see Gold is running at around 15000 Euro per Kg these days.

Shoelace pimpin'

There is a lot more to shoelace tying than meets the eye. Of course the interweb has plenty of info. Currently on my white shox I am doing a retro tip-o-the-hat to Michael Jordan's 23. The two crossovers, and 3 straight give a nice roman numeral representation of 23. Now to try it in Hex....