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  • An Inliner’s Guide to Getting Into Ice Part 1: Gear

    An Inliner's Guide to Getting Into Ice Part 1: Gear

    There are many reasons why an inline speed skater would want to have a go at ice skating. Whatever your reason, in this article I hope to provide some useful tips into making the transition into what may at first seem like a very alien new environment.

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  • Noma

    Noma

    Two weeks ago I visited a little restaurant in Denmark called "Noma" whose main claim to fame is that it is apparently the best restaurant in the world.

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  • A Word on Supplements

    A Word on Supplements

    Anyone who has ever been involved at a fairly serious level in the world of sport will have come across nutritional supplements of some kind. These can range from having electrolytes in your drinks to constructing entire meals out of powders and vitamin tablets.

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  • Core Conditioning

    Core Conditioning

    How does one go about training our core muscles? Most people immediately think about doing lots of situps, or crunches. If you want to have good-looking abs, then by all means do lots of situps, but this is only a small part of the story.

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  • Bad Advice Part 1: Fitness

    Bad Advice Part 1: Fitness

    In catching up with old friends in Melbourne, I have noticed a curious trend. Ordinarily, when one catches up with old friends after being overseas for an extended period, one is asked mostly about

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Oranges

a hat

Back in the bad old days, oranges were frequently given as Christmas presents. Why? It wasn’t because people hated →more

Yeowie’s Technique Lab

skating-diagram

I once read somewhere that if you took a race-ready rally car, and its street-legal equivalent (say a regular →more

Inzell with the Danes

Team Photo

Continuing from where the previous post “left off”, the weekend right after Enschede, I found myself in Inzell, →more

Return to Enschede

Recently I have undertaken a new “job” as one of the coaches for the Danish junior ice speed skating →more

Fluorinated Compounds

front cover image from the thesis

Last Friday I was fortunate enough to be present at my girlfriend’s Ph.D. thesis defence at the University of Copenhagen. In case anyone is wondering, it went very well, and all the opponents spoke highly of her work, and now we can all call her “Doctor”. →more

Beagle

constitution

This post is a puzzle – it is one of the puzzles I wrote for the 2005 Melbourne University Puzzle Hunt. Everything you need to know to find its single-word solution is in there. I will post hints in the comments. →more

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