Solar Eclipse in Singapore
The good news is that there will be a total solar eclipse in Singapore. The bad news is that it won't happen until March 9th 2016. All this thanks to my personal planetarium.How to pack for my next cycling trip
OMIT |
- tons of unnecessary toiletries
- too many changes of clothes
the target should be max 35 liters
note: never wear undies when cycling long distance! just apply vaseline and go au naturel in your cycling shorts or you will be sorry!
BRING |
- passport
- credit card (s)
- cash
Toiletries
- toothpaste
- toothbrush
- feminine hygiene stuff
- deodorant
- moisturizer
- soap
- shampoo
- clothes detergent
- face cloth
- towel
- mesh sponge*
this may seem surplus but it will make your soap go further and you can shower a lot faster
Drugs
- charcoal tabs
- pohchai pills
- aspirin
- antihistamine
- sunscreen
- bug spray
- teatree oil
Misc
- earplugs
- clothes line
- spare plastic bags
- camera
- pencil / pen
- magazine and/or book
- [music]
Clothes
- T-shirts
- shorts
- socks
- undies
- cap
- all purpose shoe
- sweatshirt
- bathing suit / goggles
Cycling Specific
- vaseline
- gloves + spare pair
- one camel backpack 2 liters
- 1 power bar per day
- protein bars to substitute for crap food on offer
- book to record distances
- pump
- spare tire / tire irons
- lights for night riding
- reflector strip
- 2 pairs cycling shorts
Vitamin prescription to treat homocysteine levels
| Nutrient | No Risk | Low Risk | High Risk | Very High Risk |
| (dose/day) | Below 6 units | 6-9 | 9-15 | Above 15 |
| Folate | 200mcg | 400mcg | 1200mcg | 2000mcg |
| B12 | 10mcg | 500mcg | 1000mcg | 1500mcg |
| B6 | 25mg | 50mg | 75mg | 100mg |
| B2 | 10mg | 15mg | 20mg | 50mg |
| Zinc | 5mg | 10mg | 15mg | 20mg |
| TMG | 500mg | 750mg | 1.5-3g | 3-6g |
(extracted from the H Factor programme).
Note: I recently learned that B12 doesn't absorb in the stomach very well. Try get it in "sub-lingual" form (i.e. you suck on it).
The world's fastest guide to RSS
I'm only just getting initiated with RSS. What can I say? So many sites - so little time. Do I really need a new way to find fascinating but uselesss content on the web? Probably not. Can I have any credibility as a semi-professional surfer if I don't have an RSS reader? Hmmmm...Jeremy Wagstaff has reviewed a number of his fave readers here: A Directory of the Best RSS Readers. The reader I'm trying out first... Albion.
As I can't load software onto my office PC, I was rather keen to get a reader that was web based. It looks like the BloogZ Reader, while rather basic, will do the trick.
If you're a Yahoo user there's an even simpler solution: My Yahoo lets you add RSS content. It's limited because it doesn't take all kinds of feeds. It won't take Atom.xml which is the feed that blogger uses for all it's free accounts. However it's possble to convert an atom.xml feed into an rss feed over at feedburner. You don't even have to know what the different protocols are. The site is simple and free.
Need more content? You can find more feeds here:
- BloogZ: http://www.bloogz.com/rssfinder
- Syndic8: http://www.syndic8.com
- Technorati: http://www.technorati.com
- Daypop: http://www.daypop.com
