#5 Button is Best!

The grand prix in Brazil has crowned the world champion for the last 4 years and this year was no different with Jenson Button finishing 5th - just about enough to limp over the finishing line and make it mathematically impossible for anyone else.
These posts haven't been that frequent (as is the usual promise) but I am thrilled that Jenson got the job done and is now World Champ 2009 - the first ever consecutive british driver and the 10th driver to clinch the title in the sport's history.

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Gamechanger, part 2

Continuing on from last time is the second part of my "gamechanger" post which only exists as I rambled too much in part 1. I picked up my car on Saturday and over the course of the weekend and today's commute I must have easily travelled 100+ miles. I am a little nervous when first starting off on a journey - it's a little scary

I took some snaps in between the time of running over flowerbeds at my Nan's house - "you got the one with the sexy arse" exclaimed my friend Carl when laying eyes on what has been my most expensive purchase EVAR!!1 Seriously, the only way I will top this is buying a house, or a more expensive car.

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Gamechanger, part 1

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The blog has been quiet of late for a number of reasons. One of those reasons has been the summer (stretching onto Autumn, more about that later) of me learning to drive. I've alluded to it in various tweets and also my first (and currently only) iphone app review post where I looked at some apps to help with the theory test. Well I managed to pass the theory back in June, put in my practical test straight away and failed at my first attempt in August. Not to be beaten, I put in for it again and passed the second time round at the end of September, and there was much rejoicing.

This weekend I am heading back to Shropshire to take the final steps and secure my first car - a pretty cool red Fiesta (low mileage, good condition *thumbs up*) and the realisation that being able to drive really is a gamechanger.

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0 Days Without Crisps

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It's Monday and time to continue a trend of promised new and positive habits only for them to fall apart midweek. Often that involves maintaining a regular (and high) attendance at the gym - there is really no positive benefit to going only once or twice in the week, well that's what I've found anyway. Another positive habit that keeps getting restarted is a better diet which brings me to the title of this post - the countdown ( or up) has started -- today is 0 days without crisps.

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Google Analytics and Censorship

A bit of a meta post this one. Google analytics is a free service that anyone with their own website, even just a simple hosted blog like this one should give a try. google analytics is basically a site usage reporting tool - a big step up from the hit counters of the internet's infancy.

The statistician in me loves to pour over the reports it offers and it's always interesting to discover how people find this blog and also what they check out while they're here. I usually check once a month or so and see how the latest ran has been received etc and to see where I get he visitors from. I've linked the blog from my facebook profile, my Twitter and other social bookmarking sites so the majority of direct traffic comes from there. the other traffic comes from search engines like good ol' google. i can reveal that the most popular searches have been along the lines of "gym motivation" thanks to the couple posts I did on that and also Jonathan Ross whose podcast I wrote a review of - I guess the scandal with Russell brand has kept those searches going. There is of course some gaming and f1 searches due to my leaning toward writing about those subjects. in the past I've tried those search terms which have led people here and fair play to them digging deep through the search results as they didn't show on the first couple of pages for me!

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Getting in on the act...

It's very predictable for me to start a new post by exclaiming how long it's been since my last post. Avoiding that common pitfall (whilst simultaneously referencing it), let's move on to something that has been preoccupying my time and that's my lovely new iPhone, yay!

I sent out a twitter update a while back of a sudden urge to have an iPhone. Fortunately, Apple have announced an updated iPhone at the WWDC in June for the last couple of years, so I didn't have long to wait.

Long story short, I now have an awesome iPhone 3Gs which I stoked to have. One great thing about the iPhone is the breadth of the app store where you can install applications (or "apps") onto the device. The problem arises when trying to find the quality in the mountain of offerings already available - often there are several apps that do . To that end, I'm going to get in on the act of app recommendation as that method has developed as a way to counteract the difficulty of finding the needles in the haystack. I'm not claiming to be a definitive source (at least, not yet!)

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