I want these speakers!

Final Frame: Transparent Sounds
http://www.unplggd.com/unplggd/final-frame/final-frame-transparent-sounds-161852

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Hiplok; Wearable Bike Lock

These look awesome and would go with my hipster shorts :P

Review: Hiplok; Wearable Bike Lock
http://bikehugger.com/post/view/hiplok-wearable-bike-lock

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New commuter tyre

I've been riding the new malvern star single speed convert as my commuter since I got it but I've made a few changes (mainly to reduce the death risk). New brakes and some deep 44mm rims with a decent breaking surface (still purple though to match the rest of the bike) were the first upgrades. It wasn't long though and the tyres were shown the door. A spate of flats and no quick release wheels meant it was time for a tyre with some decent puncture protection.

A nervous day

Today is the day... I'm off to see the neurologist today. I've managed to resist the urge to look at the MRI results simply because if it was bad news a few more weeks of ignorant bliss was nice.

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Worrying for the sake of worrying...

So after discovering that it's the waiting that is the most painful part of this whole scenario the worry that has kind of set in. Generally I'm a pessimist at the best of times so in this sort of scenario every little thing seems to be spark a worry in the back of your mind... The inevitable "It's probably nothing.... but what if it's not...."


I'm going to ban myself from "what if's" for the rest of the week I think....

It's the waiting that is the most painful

So after the news of yesterday I went off and had an MRI today. Which as far as medical procedures go was pretty easy. I almost fit in a nap while I was lying there. I think if you had any tendencies for claustrophobia it wouldn't be an y fun at all but for me it was an hour of time with my thoughts (probably a scary place but there is probably a whole post on that in itself). Of course now there is the wait, that time where all the stress of having the tests is replaced with still not knowing any more.

Not the sort of thing you want to hear

Was an interesting day today. I've been seeing the doctor for something that's been annoying but wasn't really impacting me at all. Today though we got to the point where it was suggested that an MRI and a trip to a neurologist would be a good idea.

It's only a precaution to rule out some nasties but it still isn't fun news to here. Let's just say I was a little sad on the walk back.

Somehow blogging about makes it seem a whole lot better..

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The painful transition away from mobile me

As many of you probably know I'm well ingrained in the apple product suite and have been for a while now. The upgrade to iOS5 and iCloud has brought a few challenges. The biggest one for me is photo sharing/storage. Up until now I'd used iPhoto and mobile me gallery for all my photo needs. It integrated perfectly with all the base apps and worked beautifully so that I could take a photo on my phone. Upload it straight away and have it already in my appleTV screensaver instantly.

iOS5 has brought the photo stream which is great because it automatically syncs every photo you take to all my iDevices. The trouble is photo stream is terrible because it automatically syncs every photo you take to all my iDevices.
Now rather than being selective all
My photos including mistakes are up there straight away and you can't delete single photos once uploaded. You can only delete the whole steam.

The other issue is the appleTV which displays it without an issue but the stream only holds the last 30 days photos. And I kinda like being reminded about my younger and less responsible times now most of the photos I take are of my kids (not that I don't love them dearly, it's just nice to know I had a life once)

So I've gone back to my Flickr account and I'm migrating my albums to there. Now before you ask the main reason I didn't choose picasaweb or any other service is the integration to the appleTV. I really like having them float by as I listen to music and it's with the Flickr subscription to keep that going.

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Getting older....

It's inevitable I know... All the birthdays (both big numbers and small) have come and gone and it hasn't really affected me. In fact I love birthdays... presents, cakes and the excuse to be selfish for a day (or more). The fact that it meant I was getting older was neither here nor there, sure I was getting older but I wasn't really feeling older (most people would probably say I still acted like a kid most of the time). Yesterday however that was all different.... I discovered I needed glasses.... suddenly I feel old... really old...