3 world records for you: 1. 400m: Michael Johnson, 1999, 43.18 seconds (10.80 seconds/100m) 2. 100m: Usain Bolt, 2009, 9.58 seconds (9.58 seconds/ 100m) 3. 4 x 100m relay: Jamaica, 2008, 37.10 seconds (9.28 seconds/100m) If you want to be fast, focus on the runner, buy the best shoes; and most of all focus on […]
Congruence
Have you ever walked in to a hotel room to find all the lights switched on, with the legend “Welcome to our hotel Mr Smith” writ large all over the gently humming TV. The intention is to give you a warm welcome, never mind all the wasted power. Yet the same hotel will ask you […]
Super Mario
Mario Andretti is the only racing driver to have won the Indianapolis 500, the Daytona 500 and the Formula One world championship. He is quoted as saying “If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.” I don’t drive racing cars but I know that if you don’t overtake, you will never win. Should […]
Perfect Timing
I have just received a Domino’s Pizza leaflet. Buy one Pizza get one free, every Tuesday. “Two for Tuesday”. Perfect, my daughters love (really love) pizza. Unfortunately it is Wednesday morning. Timing is everything. Image by byronv2
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
I found a great internet service. It is called Carbonite. For £36 a year they back up all my data onto a server in the US somewhere, probably a nuclear bunker in deepest Ohio. My data is safe, it is cheap, they have to do very little work. Everyone was a winner. Until I had […]
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