Hello!
The power of website tracking software is frightening, and very useful.
I suspect, from location and the search term that you used to get here, that you are someone I know from when I lived in that area. Hello!
Of course you may be someone completely random that I have never met coincidently searching for those things. Or you could be My Loving Uncle, but I doubt it because he should have the smarts to use a bookmark and to search for the more up to date and relevant version of the term used.
In related news, I still have numerous hits from people looking for information about the Newcastle University organic food study in 2007. Maybe I should write some more about it.
I also had a hit in the last month about gorgeous Greg Lake. Mmm, Greg Lake's voice.
I know things have been a bit quiet here the last few weeks; expect that to change in a new and exciting way in the next few days. Aren't you so excited?
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
10 June 2009
24 April 2009
But where do all the calculators go?
As some light relief (which I need), here are some funny videos. Hohoho.
The Cat Came Back
When I were young, I remember a television programme on BBC One on a Sunday evening, hosted by Tony Robinson, showing cartoons; some well known, some popular, some more obscure. This was one that I have always remembered, and I was delighted to find it on the internet.
Harry Potter Puppet Pals
It gets in your head. About the only Harry Potter related product that I can stomach these days.
The Llama song
Old, not funny (trendy) any more, stupid. Fashion and popularity can lose themselves in a dark hole; I still like it. I am slightly odd though.
The Cat Came Back
When I were young, I remember a television programme on BBC One on a Sunday evening, hosted by Tony Robinson, showing cartoons; some well known, some popular, some more obscure. This was one that I have always remembered, and I was delighted to find it on the internet.
Harry Potter Puppet Pals
It gets in your head. About the only Harry Potter related product that I can stomach these days.
The Llama song
Old, not funny (trendy) any more, stupid. Fashion and popularity can lose themselves in a dark hole; I still like it. I am slightly odd though.
13 January 2009
Feeling not alone
Last July I had an extended period away from work due to illness. At the start of September I married my wonderful wife, so August was filled with organising and September with being away.
Ever since we first became a couple, having the immediate knowledge that someone was there who cared about me has been a source of strength. In a more specific way, that knowledge has sometimes helped to invalidate the horrible isolation and loneliness that I sometimes feel.
At the end of April last year I stopped posting here. At the time this was mostly due to my attention span, I was almost certainly distracted by something new and shiny, but the break was considerably lengthened by my summer illness and then the wedding and so on.
When we returned from our honeymoon, I caught up with the hundreds of blog posts that I had missed whilst away. One blog that I read, Aethelread The Unread, is concerned with mental health. The author is fluent, intelligent, and comes across as a great guy. In one post he mentioned some blogs that he read that had stopped posting, and noting his concerns about some of them. One blog he mentioned was mine (although with the very accurate comment of "judging by his archives he’s a kind of on-again, off-again blogger anyway").
I cried when I read that, in both a happy and sad way. I felt so incredibly not alone. I am sure that in part in was ego massaging; someone read my blog and noticed something that I did.
But it was also a positive thought. When I feel completely isolated and alone, and when everybody seems to be looking at me with disgust and contempt, I am actually wrong. There are people who notice me; my wife, my parents and family, my friends, my colleagues, people I know through blogs and games. And the rest are oblivious rather than malevolent.
Ever since we first became a couple, having the immediate knowledge that someone was there who cared about me has been a source of strength. In a more specific way, that knowledge has sometimes helped to invalidate the horrible isolation and loneliness that I sometimes feel.
At the end of April last year I stopped posting here. At the time this was mostly due to my attention span, I was almost certainly distracted by something new and shiny, but the break was considerably lengthened by my summer illness and then the wedding and so on.
When we returned from our honeymoon, I caught up with the hundreds of blog posts that I had missed whilst away. One blog that I read, Aethelread The Unread, is concerned with mental health. The author is fluent, intelligent, and comes across as a great guy. In one post he mentioned some blogs that he read that had stopped posting, and noting his concerns about some of them. One blog he mentioned was mine (although with the very accurate comment of "judging by his archives he’s a kind of on-again, off-again blogger anyway").
I cried when I read that, in both a happy and sad way. I felt so incredibly not alone. I am sure that in part in was ego massaging; someone read my blog and noticed something that I did.
But it was also a positive thought. When I feel completely isolated and alone, and when everybody seems to be looking at me with disgust and contempt, I am actually wrong. There are people who notice me; my wife, my parents and family, my friends, my colleagues, people I know through blogs and games. And the rest are oblivious rather than malevolent.
13 March 2008
Introduction: Pole to Polar
At the request of the author of Pole to Polar, here is a link and introduction to the blog. Written by Seaneen, a lass of a not too dissimilar age to me, the blog focuses on her experience of bipolar disorder/manic depression, and helps to educate people about it. Posts are usually informative and interesting.
Go and read it.
Go and read it.
28 October 2007
Introduction: Junkfood Science
One blog that I have been keeping up to date with recently has been Junkfood Science. Written by Sandy Szwarc, a qualified nurse, if focusses on the science and issues around obesity. The position of the blog is largely against the message delivered by governments that there is an obesity crisis that is threatening the health of the (western) world. The main points seem to be:
1. Obesity doesn't cause disease or medical conditions as is widely reported. It can be a marker for causes, but isn't one of itself.
2. In some situations, obesity can have positive health influences.
3. Highlighting the discrimination against the obese, including the negative effect that the 'war on obesity' has on this.
4. Indicating that the 'war on obesity' is a potentially large market, especially when reinforced by government campaigns.
5. That the obesity crisis is largely a false interpretation of the real situation.
Generally, the posts are well structured and written. Sandy Szwarc makes frequent references to studies and publications, and offers her analysis of their findings, which commonly run against the popular interpretations.
The clarity and apparent evidence base of these claims has caused me to consider the subject in greater depth. That the main emphasis of Junkfood Science runs against popular opinion, and the beliefs that I have been taught, and with apparently reliable evidence in support, have interested me a great deal.
I have briefly looked at some of the opposing views, some of which are very vehemently against Sandy Szwarc, but I think I will do so in much greater depth, and report what I discover here.
1. Obesity doesn't cause disease or medical conditions as is widely reported. It can be a marker for causes, but isn't one of itself.
2. In some situations, obesity can have positive health influences.
3. Highlighting the discrimination against the obese, including the negative effect that the 'war on obesity' has on this.
4. Indicating that the 'war on obesity' is a potentially large market, especially when reinforced by government campaigns.
5. That the obesity crisis is largely a false interpretation of the real situation.
Generally, the posts are well structured and written. Sandy Szwarc makes frequent references to studies and publications, and offers her analysis of their findings, which commonly run against the popular interpretations.
The clarity and apparent evidence base of these claims has caused me to consider the subject in greater depth. That the main emphasis of Junkfood Science runs against popular opinion, and the beliefs that I have been taught, and with apparently reliable evidence in support, have interested me a great deal.
I have briefly looked at some of the opposing views, some of which are very vehemently against Sandy Szwarc, but I think I will do so in much greater depth, and report what I discover here.
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