Tough Guy 2009

Posted on Feb 4, 2009 in Blog On Sunday January 32nd (more commonly known as February 1st) I set out to take part in the 2009 Tough Guy event. What is Tough Guy? Tough Guy is a competition where thousands of people come together and run through 150 acres of farm land which has been fitted with numerous obstacle courses to put participants into a test of physical and mental endurance. The competition starts off with a run...
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Nation

Posted on Feb 4, 2009 in Books Sometime before Christmas I read Nation by Terry Pratchett. This is Pratchett’s first non-Discworld book in a while and it was interesting to read him take on a different kind of characters in another environment. The book takes in a fictional world but has strong roots to our reality most likely during the early 1800s and follows the story of Mau a young man who looses his home and family...
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Straight to your iPod – February 2009

Posted on Feb 3, 2009 in Music I’m now resurrecting a feature of the blog which has lain dormant for 8 months. The reason I’m resurrecting it is because my friend Björn Gestsson has no ability to find new music on his own so he relies on other people’s recommendation for new music and I fear he may be lacking in new music as of late (this is of course utter bull, but it is in some way grounded in...
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The Black Swan

Posted on Feb 3, 2009 in Books, Finance I’ve recently finished reading The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Taleb is a philosopher, economic thinker, researcher and scholar of randomness and knowledge. He has some really strong opinions against the current tools used in the financial markets and he voices them repetitively through out the book. That relates to the books subject, our...
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Tiny bits of snow vs London

Posted on Feb 3, 2009 in Blog When I got back home from Tough Guy yesterday (more on that later) it started to snow in London like it had been in Wolverhampton where I’d been. It snowed considerably for England but I didn’t pay much attention to it since it wasn’t that much compared to what I’ve seen. However when I woke up this morning I was greeted with the news that the whole of England had grounded...
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