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Windows…. Vista, or as I would rather refer to it, Blister. My reason for this rename quite simply is that Vista is so frustratingly irritating. As with a blister on your heel and a usual requirement for shoes, the irritation will be almost impossible to avoid too. I’ve been saying for the last few days that there’s a very fine line between usability and security and Microsoft have well and truly crossed it on the wrong side.

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I know I haven’t blogged in a while but to be honest I’ve not been motivated to and I’ve not had all that much to say, the recent developments in my life are, in a nutshell: My brother got married in South Africa in November and I made a start to improve my health by taking up exercise some time in October.

I’ve been off the fags for nigh on three years now but my waist measurements have increased steadily over time and well, to be honest I was big. I’m 6′3″ anyway so I can hide the chubb but still, I wasn’t happy so I bought a weights bench. I didn’t really get on with it and then fell back in to running… which brings me to why I’m posting. My lovely (she’s looking over my shoulder as I type this) girlfriend got me a Sony MP3 Walkman for Christmas to keep me entertained while I’m battering down the pavement. After inputting some details about my height, weight, stride and step distance it spits out all the information about how many calories I’ve burned, how many steps I’ve taken and miles I’ve travelled etc. I quite enjoy knowing how much flab I’ve burned off and remembered that I had a Cardiosport watch and heart rate monitor I’d bought the last time I’d got in to running so I fished it out of a deep drawer to have a tinkle.

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