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Look into my eyes…

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After many years of wondering, I finally booked myself on a hypnosis course and completed it at the weekend. I am now a hypnotist and will be hypnotising people on the streets as soon as I’ve got a routine or two to use.

The course was excellent with 2 existing hypnotherapists who wanted to learn the fast induction style (handshake induction as seen on tv) as well as 3 others, like myself, who have never hypnotised before. A highly practical course and by lunchtime on the first day, we were practicing techniques on eachother and getting hypnotic phenomena like arm lifting!

Thoroughly recommended and I can’t wait to find my first subject.

http://www.anthonyjacquin.com for the instructor (checkout his youtube videos as well).

Any volunteers?

I have broadband. Now what?!

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Hmm. After exactly a year without broadband I have got myself reconnected.

Unfortunately I don’t know what to do with it now! I’ve spend a year connecting via my mobile in a 2G area: Think 56 Kbps modem, occasionally peaking at 5.9 KB / second, though most of the time getting less than 1. I get better connectivity on the (above ground part of the) underground and on the M6.

So now everything I’ve got used to doing at home can be done in ten minutes rather than more than an hour, I found myself just sitting there last night thinking, “what did I actually used to do on the internet?”. I checked out youtube: how do people spend so much time there?  I headed over to facebook to see what’s changed: I remembered the original reason I never really used it. I flicked up Front Row and started watching film trailers: That’s actually quite entertaining. However, there must be more!

Is instant messaging still used? I prefer the phone!

Are there any decent (legal) music and film download sites yet?

What do you do on your broadband?!

Answers on a postcard or in the comments!

Cheers

Olympic medal table

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Although not very interested in the day to day activities over in Beijing I am interested by the medal table. After seeing us (Great Britain) at around position 7 earier in the week I checked again earlier today. We are currently in 3rd Place.

Gold Silver Bronze Total
China 37 14 14 65
United States 19 22 25 66
Great Britain 12 7 8 27

I wondered if I could skew this by playing with statistics. I figured our population may be a strength, so I went for Medals per Capita.
The good news is that we beat USA and China. Unfortunately we’re now beaten by Jamaica among others.

Position Country Population per Gold
1 Jamaica 1,402,166
2 Slovakia 1,818,469
3 Australia 1,872,805
4 Slovenia 2,007,711
5 New Zealand 2,086,730
6 Georgia 2,315,421
7 Denmark 2,742,362
8 Mongolia 2,996,081
9 Switzerland 3,790,760
10 Norway 4,644,457
11 Czech Republic 5,110,456
12 Finland 5,244,749
13 Great Britain 5,540,356
27 USA 15,990,771
33 China 38,001,274

If anyone has any other ideas that put us near the top of the table, let me know!

I’ve already tried useing GDP per Capita though that swings it back the other way..

I left my Deathstar in San Fran

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http://current.com/items/89204971_death_star_over_san_francisco

Excellent home made vieo and there are a couple of real laugh out loud moments. I love the way that everyone treats it as though they’re everyday occurances and its not unusual to have Tie fighters screaming across the bay let alone star destroyers hovering just above the Golden Gate Bridge…

Call for computer parts

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A few months ago I built a nice machine and gave it to a mate thinking that would help me run down all my boxes. Well now I’m setting up an office in my spare room so I dug it all out again. It turns out there’s almost nothing worth having left :(.

I currenly have a 1333 MHz Athlon, a motherboard to match with 256MB of RAM (2*64 + 1*128). If anyone has anything spare that can bring me into the 21st century that would be great! I’m looking for a Motherboard, CPU, RAM and sound and graphics cards. I’ve got everything else. Let me know in the comments or email!

Happy friday!

Rob