Just finished reading Bounce by Matthew Syed. ISBN: 978-0-00-735054-4 Very interesting as it says that practice and training is more important that 'talent'. I was especially interested in the psychology of "choking" i.e. when a sport person completely muffs a game...
Check for two cpu flags. vmx and lm # this command will list all the flags # and highlight vmx and/or lm in colour (--color) if found. grep -E --color '^flags|vmx|lm' /proc/cpuinfo As you can see from this screen shot my old P4 doesn't support either Virtualization...
Recently I've been divesting myself of mailing list memberships and commercial email subscriptions. Why? - Because every email that hit's your inbox is a distraction. With mailing lists, it's usually a question which doesn't become an answer until the end of the email...
Germany Stayed at a friends house in semi-rural germany Moers (I think). Went to a Roman ruin nearby and saw almost identical architecture as to what was in Rome. Truly the Roman empires reach was colossal. Cologne has a huge Cathedral it's a good walk to the top and...
Sights. Colesseum, Roman Forum, Palatine Hill. €12.00 well spent. truly amazing for it's time. So many sports domes look so much like it (Colosseum) now. Pantheon: Loved it. Looking a bit dicayed outside but inside splendid. Still amazed how they managed to raise 20...
As previously mentioned we spent a day and a night in Dubrovnik. So the next target was the Amalfi Coast in Italy Specifically a Holiday Apartment in Praiano ( which is beautiful by the way - it's clean, it's stylish, I feel beautiful here ). To get here is where the...
I have attempted to Blog about our trip 'as it happened' but moving around and not getting WiFi at convenient times has meant I'm not going to. Anyhow I've made some notes and should be able to post it when I get back to Terra Australis. Hong Kong Airport is huge and...
Currently in Cologne Germany visiting friends. Wife is shopping. I am sitting in Starbucks taking advantage of the free WiFi. Just climbed to the top of a big church. It's 157m high. Amazing stonework and stained glass. Going to find my wife and her friend now she...
I haven't really been blogging much re the trip. Too busy being a tourist. Praiano was lovely and we did a lot of stuff. We had a good and classy apartment. Great views Positano. Walked about 11km's from Praiano to Positano and enjoyed a beer with Pete. Then returned...
Arrived at Salerno at 12:30ish. Seems they close the shops between 2-4. The leather shop we wanted was already shut just after 1PM. But you know what they say "when in Salerno do as the Salernians do" Next stop Rome via Eurostar.