Archive: Life

Feb 05

Owning a car is expensive!

A few weeks ago my car heater packed up. It’s surprising how something so simple can be so disruptive! Aside from driving to work and back every day in a car that is colder inside than your fridge at home, when it rained, the car steamed up and made it impossible to see out of all of the windows!

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Nov 26

She had hit him with her car…

Sunday evening I was driving home through Norwich when I turned a corner and came across a woman furiously waving her arms in the air. She was stood over the body of a man lying in the middle of the road.

I stopped the car and rushed over. The women told me he had stumbled into the road and she had hit him with her car. The man had a large gash on his head and was covered in blood. Fortunately he was conscience so I asked him to keep hold of his head and not move in case he had any other injuries.

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Apr 03

Broken Navicular… Ouch!

I met up with Darren for our usual squash session yesterday. I was flying up the scoreboard with a 4-2 lead and everything was going well until the seventh game when I had to run to the back wall and return a power shot from Darren. As I turned my left foot slipped underneath me and my entire body weight fell down on to the side of my right foot. A sharp pain instantly ran from my foot up my leg and through my back.

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Feb 04

Twitter!

I took the plunge and signed up to another social networking phenomenon that is sweeping the Internet today known as Twitter. I’ve been blissfully unaware of how fast this new form of social media has grown until it was mentioned on Radio 1 this morning. I’ve since discovered that Twitter is far more than a glorified status update page. It’s simplicity is it’s success.

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Dec 20

Kick back and relax…

Dare I say it but Christmas is nearly upon us! The only time of year when every single person in the country is given the exact same deadline. Panic ensues and packed out high street stores, screaming children and stressed out sales staff can make the lead up to this festive day a real drag.

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What I'm doing...

  • Redesigned the header on my blog over the weekend and made some design tweaks. Opinions? Check it out here: http://richardshorten.com 2010-06-22
  • Wordpress 3.0 upgrade couldn't have gone any smoother on my personal blog. A quick, hassle free and effective automatic upgrade! Superb! 2010-06-19
  • Have been busy doing plenty of exciting things over the past few weeks so expect to see a few more articles on my personal blog very soon! 2010-06-06
  • Just collected every single achievement in Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2. Game now 100% complete! 2010-05-03
  • Spent this afternoon consolidating my non .uk domains to one registrar... A big task but should stop the flurry of random renewal emails! 2010-05-03
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