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- August 12th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Oxford Crime Map
Check this little badger out, a map of Oxford with hotzones for where the crime is. The map covers Oxford as a sample because it is typical British city which has a demographic and levels of crime rep…
- August 6th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
The Broken Interweb
What an exciting afternoon, with Twitter down, Facebook struggling and Flickr hiccupping. Turns out that Twitter was being DDos’ed… no idea on Facebook or Flickr. What more could you want…
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
N97 Home Screen
What do you have on your home screen? Mine above has the usual clock, date and profile. Underneath this a batch of frequently used contacts (also known as favourites), originally I selected a really b…
- August 5th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Dubrovnik - Croatia Day 5
After the exerts of yesterday morning we decided we deserved a lie in, nothing stupid, but not having an alarm on for 6. Instead we turned the phone upside down and got up at 9, lucky really as we fou…
- August 4th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Dubrovnik - Croatia Day 4 Mljet
As I said yesterday, the alarm was set for 6am, lovely, I woke up… take a guess… go on I dares ya… yep spot on 5.59am. Who would have guessed it hey? So that meant we were up, and had no excuse…
- August 3rd, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Dubrovnik - Croatia Day 3 Lapad
Early start planned, alarm set for 7.30 to get down to tourist information by 8. No go, alarm fail, didn’t get up till 9. Woops. The plan for today? Got down into town and hire a car, why a car I he…
- August 2nd, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Dubrovnik - Croatia Day 2 Lokrum
I guess good morning and welcome to day two. An early-ish start, not as early as first hoped due to the insane heat in the room and difficulties with sleeping. First port of call is to get down into O…
- August 1st, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Dubrovnik - Croatia Day 1
When you know you are going to be spending the day travelling, the best thing to do is wake up ridiculously early, much earlier than planned and feel terrible. Somehow, I guess with the prize of getti…
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Common Courtesy Pecking Order
Something struck me when I was on the bus earlier, not a door or rogue bag, small child or scag head, but a thought. A thought which was sparked by one passing remark from an elderly passenger to anot…
- July 20th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
The Ashes First Test Tweets
As you know, I am a huge cricket fan, therefore The Ashes is a very exciting time for me. I can’t think of much interesting stuff to do relating to it at the moment so I will start off by aggregatin…
- July 13th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Walking In The Cotswolds
Went for a walk on Friday in the Cotswolds, drove up past my old uni (very emotional), and ended up in a very random little village / town called Colwall. You can see why I picked it I tried to Spor…
- July 7th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
A Difficult Answer
Read this first, then read on below. The anti argument for each: Goes without saying that you cant use the child toilet, as that would just be weird! A) You don’t want to known as the Gary Glitter o…
- July 6th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
A Difficult Decision
Which urinal would you choose to use? Of course this one is slightly aimed towards blokes. Imagine you walk into the bog at a pub and are faced with the set up above, there is currently no one else in…
- June 24th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Terminate The Rate
I pay £45 a month for my contract which gets me unlimited everything… this is still a hell of a lot of money a month! I’m involved in a campaign to lower these monthly charges for good, the campa…
- June 12th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Lords Day Trip
No not the houses of Lords, I mean the cricket place, it was a Twenty 20 World Cup warm up day. Which basically meant two games, firstly South Africa vs. Sri Lanka, followed up by England vs. West Ind…
- June 5th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Asus 1008HA Saga Part3
I’m not calling this the final chapter in the saga because I do not want to tempt fate… but the bloody thing has continued to work and making me love it again! Pray that this keeps up and that I o…
- June 2nd, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Asus 1008HA Saga Part2
Sunday morning I submitted my replacement request to Dabs.com for the Asus 1008HA which is playing up. I also received a reply from the Asus Support team, who have asked me to arrange a repair collect…
- May 30th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Asus 1008HA Saga Part1
Let the saga begin.. I feel there is going to be a little (a lot) of ‘told ya so’s’ flying in my direction over the next few days, but anyway I did go ahead and buy an Asus 1008HA last week and…
- May 29th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
How Very Alcopopular3
You may have been wondering what my tweets were about that look a little strange with random first words and referencing http://tinyurl.com/alcopopular3. Well I shall explain, of course if you’ve be…
- May 27th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Bupa 10k Result
Run run run… that pretty much describes my bank holiday Monday. Yep the time had for me to take on 10k of London’s famous streets, starting at Green Park and hopefully finishing back along the Mal…
- May 22nd, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Can You Grow A Beard?
This goes out to all those unfortunate men and women who are unable to grow their own beards, I have come to the rescue! On visiting the link you will see a façade for a legitimate building company,…
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Time Is Running Out
Yes time is running out (one pun intended), only 3 days to go until the big run on Monday 25th. Starting to get slightly nervous, my training has been extremely disrupted due to the start of the crick…
- May 21st, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Gallows In Oxford
Last Friday I went to see Gallows at the O2 Academy in Oxford. It’s the first time I’ve seen a gig in the new and improved large downstairs room there and I have to say I was pretty impressed. I h…
- May 19th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Daddy Needs A New Toy
I need a new toy, and I think I have decided what it will be… Have you seen the Asus 1008HA Seashell? Looks mighty nice to me, and it looks like it works, yes of course looks can be deceiving, will…
- May 15th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
- May 14th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Dear Mr Walkers…
Dear Gary Linekar (Or whom it concerns at Walkers) I am an avid fan of yours, a keen Match of the Day viewer and a followers of the Master golf whenever you are in charge, I even have a friend who use…
- May 12th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
- May 8th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
- April 28th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Free Media Censorship
Mashed in-between all the news reports of Swine Flu killing the entire world, I heard a story on the radio this morning about Fiji and the media censorship going on there. From a little research it do…
- April 27th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
My Car Got Broken Into…
… Yes the perfect start to any Monday morning… walking out to the car and finding this; Head instantly drops and you know it’s going to be one of those days… window smashed, doors unlocked, h…
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Where Do You Comment?
Have been thinking about this for a few days, with the ways my content is cross pollinated across a number of different sites there are a number of ways readers can comment. The most obvious one is o…
- April 26th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
New Relentless
I found a new flavour… but I’ve not drank Relentless for a long time. I wonder what effect it will have on me when I do get around to drinking it?
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Road Run - 25/4
View Road Run 25/4/09 in a larger map Activity Running Start time 25.04.09 11:58 Duration 39 min 19 s Distance 6.31 km Speed (average) 9.63 km/h km/h Speed (max) 20.8 km/h km/h Pace (av…
- April 25th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Chilli Lasagne
Anyone want some? Well I hope not because there is nothing left. I totally cheated in making this as I did not have time to make the chilli and white sauce from scratch so just bought jars. I won’t…
- April 24th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Burger King Texican
It tasted a lot better than it looks… honest. Kudos to BK for bringing this out! A normal burger, with a layer of coated chilli on top, then Jalapenos and a Cajun sauce. Good training hey
- April 22nd, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Road Run – 22/4
So the excuse is that I ran this after work, and didn’t eat anything energy boosting pre-run. Not toooo bad though I guess. View Road Run - 22/4/09 in a larger map Activity Running Start time 2…
- April 19th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Whilst Driving Safely Down The Road
Whilst minding my own business driving down the A34 I came across something very strange… I of course couldn’t take a picture due to driving, but if you put one on top of the other you will be pre…
- April 13th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Doctor Who - Planet of the Dead
Saturday saw the first Doctor Who special of the year, titled Planet of the Dead. Well I thought it was good. And I really liked Michelle Ryan, I hope she gets more involved in future. The only sour p…
- April 12th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Road Run - 12/4
View Road Run - 12/4/09 in a larger map Activity Running Start time 12.04.09 11:48 Duration 24 min 26 s Distance 4.62 km Speed (average) 11.3 km/h km/h Speed (max) 22.0 km/h km/h Pace (…
- April 11th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
First BBQ
Who says Easter isn’t a BBQ time? Or more accurately a Barkee-B-Q… Good Friday is meant to be fish and no meat, but we cheated a little, we had both. Of course, first the BBQ had to get firey: C…
- April 6th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
The Anatomy Of A Facebook Meme
This is definitely the worst thing I have ever read on Mashable! I am a big fan of Mashable and think that a lot of the insight there is great and of huge use to the readers. However this isn’t the…
- March 28th, 2009
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Quality of Internet Writing
I have just read this article by Valerie Stevens. I cannot pass comment on the quality of paid content, because I never pay for content. However moving swiftly onto Sheree Zielke’s thoughts on writi…
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PoD has posted a new entry on: Colin Mercer On The Inter - Web
Melbourne Day 9 - Laaazzzyyyy
Insanely lazy day today, anyone would think I drank too much the day before… in fact I will blame it on work requirements. What I did do though was plan lots of stuff for the final two days I was i…
