Monthly Archives: April 2009

Google are really annoying sometimes

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You know one thing I really hate. When I open a browser window and start typing a web address, only for my Google home page to load and remove focus from the address bar to the search box.

It annoys the hell out of me when I want to got to a web page and end up searching for tbee.com or ebook.com and so on. We (well most of us) know you shouldn’t move the user focus with out them expecting it and this is a prime example of this.

It annoys the hell out of me, and there’s nothing I can do. Maybe its time to dump google as a home page. The new Yahoo! home page actually looks quite nice – maybe its time to switch back there after all this time. We’ll see when it launches to everyone if it can fulfil my needs.

/rant

Thames Turbo Sprint Series Race 1

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For weeks I thought I was not going to be able to enter this race after tearing (potentially) my intercostals, but I couldn’t miss the first race of the new Triathlon season. I decided about 10 hours before the race started that I should give it a go. So after packing all my gear into my bag, getting my aero helmet and TT bike sorted to try out in a race for the first time I went to bed excited that my season was about to start.

The season didn’t get off the the best start, when I forgot to register and then tried to start but wasn’t allowed. Thankfully I woke up – I was only having a bad dream! Next dream was even worse when I forgot to rack my bike and had to get it out of the car once I had finished the swim. I’m a little worried that dreaming about triathlon means I might be taking this a little too seriously. Continue reading →