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Eat no snacks

Posted 7 days ago. (Filed under: by Andrew)

I shall eat no snacks for a week.
Start weight: 11 stone 12 lbs. Goal: 11 stone 3 lbs.
Current weight: 11 stone 9 lbs

For the last year or so, my weight has hovered around the 11 stone 6lbs mark. In the week after Miranda was born, it dipped to 11 stone 1lbs due, in part, to running up and down the stairs non-stop for 168 hours (well, it felt like that).

Well, now I’ve stopped the stair-running, I’m 11 stone 12lbs. It’s not the absolute number that I’m worried about – the government BMI calculator says I’m fine, and my maximum healthy weight would be about 13 stones (which is too high, but lets face it, they don’t know I’ve got the muscle tone of a jellyfish). What concerns me is that I’m getting heavier by about two pounds per week. That can’t go on.

On the back of an envelope, I’ve calculated that I eat between 300 and 1000 calories (i.e. kcals) of snacks per work-day, averaging at about 500. The snacks are a mixture of cereal bars, chocolate biscuit bars, chocolate-covered raisins and licorice. I haven’t included fruit in my calculations, as I intend to continue eating the same amount – just at meal-times rather than in between.

So do keep an eye on me – lets see if the de-snacking makes a difference.

Unfashionable redesign

Posted 10 days ago. (Filed under: by Andrew)

According to Dean, nobody wants to know that I’m re-styling the site. When it looks like you’ve broken the Internet, don’t worry – it’s my fault.

Dilbert redesign

Posted 18 days ago. (Filed under: by Andrew)

Dilbert.com has been redesigned into a web 2.0 colour crazy flash-based megasite.

On the up-side, the Dilbert people have also provided a no-frills, no-flash, no-clutter site and an rss feed. Why the extra site? For ultra-techies. Sweet.

REISUB - the gentle Linux restart

Posted 23 days ago. (Filed under: by Andrew)

According to Lifehacker a frozen Linux system that’s not responding to the Ctrl-Alt-Delete three-finger-salute can be restarted more safely than by pushing the power button, which is usually the next step.

Holding down Alt and SysRq (which is the Print Screen key) while slowly typing REISUB will get you safely restarted. REISUO will do a shutdown rather than a restart.

Sounds like either an April Fools joke or some very strange magic akin to the old BIOS beeps we used to use to diagnose PC faults so bad that nothing would boot. Wikipedia comes to the rescue with an in-depth listing of all the SysRq keys.

  • R: Switch the keyboard from raw mode to XLATE mode
  • E: Send the SIGTERM signal to all processes except init
  • I: Send the SIGKILL signal to all processes except init
  • S: Sync all mounted filesystems
  • U: Remount all mounted filesystems in read-only mode
  • B: Immediately reboot the system, without unmounting partitions or syncing

(Discovered originally here)

Lunch by Nikki

Posted 66 days ago. (Filed under: by Andrew)

Yes, it’s another article about my lunch. This time there’s no photo, but the food’s just as good.

I’ve had wraps from Nikki’s twice now, and I’m impressed by the amount of filling they manage to get in. The wrap isn’t always as neat and robust as you’d get in a supermarket, but that’s the price you pay for having it stuffed full of goodies. My chicken, tzatziki and mixed bean wrap was £2.50.

Here’s a map of where it is, 11-13 William Street, Edinburgh, just a few minutes from where I work.


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They do catering and stuff, and you can call them on 0131 226 6715 if the urge grabs you.

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