http://www.colinseymour.co.uk Colin Seymour's corner of the internet. Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:43:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Oh my word, the South Africans have just been given a complete pasting by England in the 2nd One Day International at Trent Bridge. SA were all out for 83 in 23 overs and England replied with 85 for 0 in 14.1 overs. I don't think I want to ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/sa-given-a-pasting-by-the-poms/ I've been working through the mountains of photos I took in the 10 days Mum and Sam were over and stumbled upon this one I took at the Eden Project. I literally just cropped it and increased the blacks and this is the result: an accidental "Photo of the ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/red-yellow/ Well, the power of the South Africans on the internet has been proven. We're taking your women, jobs and now board games too. The big push by various South African bloggers, me included, to get the most beautiful city in the world - Cape Town - onto the World Edition ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/cape-town-comes-in-3rd-for-monopoly-world-edition/ Check it out folks, over 500 miles to a tank of petrol and with absolutely no motorway driving at all - this is just over 2 weeks worth of to work and back: Despite what the reading says, the fuel economy is actually about 44.15 mpg (6.39 litres per 100km) as ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/500-miles-to-the-tank/ Interesting links for 24 Jul 08 - 19 Aug 08: Just right for the garden: a mini-cow - Forget getting a dog: get a mini-cow. You'll a secondary income (thanks to 16 pints of drinkable milk a day), a lawn mower, a friend, a pet and finally some awesome steaks ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/interesting-links-for-24-jul-08-19-aug-08/ Wow!!!! Usain Bolt is incredible, check that margin of victory, and he wasn't even trying in the last 10m. Usain Bolt won this race at 90m, cruised across the finish line and still SMASHED his old record to pieces in a new time of 9.69 seconds. Imagine how quick ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/usain-bolt-smashes-world-100m-record/ I've had the unfortunate luck of having to work the last two weekends in a row (my own fault), but it hasn't all been bad as I've listened to a lot of great music for free and without any adverts or DJ chat thanks to Last.fm. I've been a last.fm member ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/fill-your-silence-with-lastfm/ Go to the gym, grind out 3 sets of 6 reps of deadlifts at 120kg and finish feeling amazing and like you've accomplished something good in your workout. Then look up at the telly and see the women hoiking weights in excess of 120kg over their heads in the ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/how-to-feel-inferior-in-one-easy-movement/ Life is already far too complicated with all the choices we can have when we go shopping: Branded or not? Organic or "normal"? Free range or battery? Fresh or frozen? High fat, medium far or low fat? Well, Sainsburys have complicated matters further in the milk department. We'll ignore the ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/1-milk-is-it-really-worth-the-effort/ I quite like The Verve's latest single "Love is Noise", but something has been bothering me about it for a while. Something in the song sounds really familiar, and for the life of me I couldn't quite put my finger on it. That was until this morning when ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/the-verve-and-the-noisiest-birds-in-south-africa/ Two years ago LOVEFiLM.com released their first image "hiding" 100 film titles, and they've done it again. Here's the new one for you to start sharing with your friends and spending endless hours debating over. (click for full size) So what films can you find? http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/100-more-films-to-find/ Woohooo!!! I'm a celeb. I'm in this week's Maidenhead Advertiser. Unlike all my previous appearances in newspapers, I've not done anything special other than just being in the right place at the right time. However I have been caught red handed going for the food: This was taken at ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/im-in-the-local-newspaper/ From my own experience, searching the web, the comments I've received in my previous two posts(Vibram Five Fingers and Vibram Five Fingers: 1 Month Later) and in conversation, sizing the Vibram Five Fingers is quite a concern and challenge. This is understandable as they're not shoes in the sense we ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/sizing-vibram-five-fingers/ I heard something interesting today: reversing into a parking space, or onto your drive can save you up to £100 a year in petrol. Apparently it's because a cold engine can use up to 4 times as much petrol than a warm engine. So naturally you want to get ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/reverse-parking-saves-you-money/ You know things must be getting bad when chickens are being security tagged in our local Tescos...     Apparently they've taken to security tagging the joints of lamb and beef too. http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/security-tagged-chickens/ Claire saw this advert the other evening and mentioned it to me. I hadn't seen it. She mentioned it to the people at work, and they hadn't seen it either. Claire was certain she'd seen it on TV and hadn't just dreamed it, especially when she could ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/bbc-beijing-olympics-advert/ Thanks to new European law, Winnie the Pooh is going to need a re-write. He's not allowed to live in the Hundred Acre Wood anymore. Instead he has to live in the 40.4685642 Hectare Wood. http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/winnie-the-pooh-needs-a-rewrite/ As you will no doubt know from my previous post - Our Wedding: The Big Day - Claire and I got married at The New Mill restaurant and you may be wondering "Why get married at a restaurant?". Well, I hope to explain our reasons here. First off, neither of us is ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/our-wedding-why-we-chose-the-new-mill/ Interesting links for 13 Jun 08 - 15 Jul 08: Crap Idea - The new must have festival essential. No more horrible smelly porta-potties. Building demolition based on old Japanese game - This is very cool and very clear, and best of all, very neat and tidy. Imagine they demolished buildings ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/interesting-links-for-13-jun-08-15-jul-08/ Claire and I have now been married for 11 days, and whilst we don't have our official photos yet, I thought I'd detail our big day for those that couldn't attend. This is actually the first of a series of posts that I'll post over the next few days as there's ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/our-wedding-the-big-day/ This is just a quick post to let all those that couldn't attend out wedding know all went brilliantly well. Everything fell into place and we had a fantastic day with no problems at all. For those who did attend: thank-you very much for joining us and for ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/claire-and-i-are-now-married/ Well, it's nearly a month now since I got my Vibram Five Fingers and I'm happy to say I'm still very impressed with them. More importantly, I'm also still injury free and starting to really notice my feet adapting. To get a true reflection of the effects of running in ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/vibram-five-fingers-1-month-later/ This time next week, Claire and I would have been happily married for a whole 2 ½ hours (assuming things finish at 14:30 on the dot). I can say pretty much everything is in place now. We've got a couple of things to finish off, like place cards ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/one-week-to-go/ Who'd have thought South Africa would be trail blazing with it's affirmative action laws? I certainly didn't, but given the news today, it looks like the UK will be adopting a page from the South African book in the newly announced "Equalities Bill". Whilst most of the bill is designed ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/affirmative-action-comes-to-britain/ What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care. http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/ignorance-vs-apathy/ Got another beaut of a case summary today: "Summary : 2.2667- mother bored dead on arrival" http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/mother-bored/ Last night's F-Word featured probably the most disgusting cheese in the world: the casu marzu. This is a sheep's milk cheese from Sardinia, Italy that is effectively a Pecorino Sardo, but taken a stage further in the fermentation/maturation process. After a couple of weeks of maturation, the top of the ... http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/casu-marzu-probably-the-most-disgusting-cheese-in-the-world/ I took several photos last weekend but I can't make up my mind which I prefer for my "Photo of the Week" feature (even though it's more of a photo of the month), so I've opted for four this week.     http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/four-photos-of-the-week/ The simple ones are always the best. http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/pearls-before-swine-12-june/ Well that will certainly teach him. I bet he's not feeling so clever now. http://www.colinseymour.co.uk/blog/wall-1-yobbo-1-leg/