08 February 2002

Test I still can't get Radio's My Pictures tool (that all and sundry are using) to work. I've resorted to experimenting with W98/IE5 right click in the text edit box on Radio's home page, which has an 'Insert Image' option: 5:35:25 PM

Sleep in a tent: 3% Bizarre Winter Olympics story from Wired.  For years athletes have travelled to train at high altitude to improve their (sea level) competition performance. We're talking about an enormous difference - the three percent in the title. So all these athletes are spending a fortune to travel and spend time at altitude just to stay competitive.  With you so far. And then someone designs a hypoxic tent. No I didn't know either. That'll be one with less oxygen than normal. The athletes sleep in the tent and get high altitude effect without leaving home. "Anti-doping advocates such as Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and British track star Paula Radcliffe have championed the use of altitude tents as an alternative way to boost peformance without using drugs." And the International Olympic Commitee is thinking about banning the tents? Come again? "While no official decision has been announced yet, the International Olympics Committee has decided to ban hypoxic tents from the Olympic village, according to a spokeswoman for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee for the Olympic Winter Games." 2:58:24 PM

Quote of the Day Andy Rooney. "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." 2:08:09 PM

Cookie Cutter Robot Wisdom, which predates just about everybody in this weblog game, may not have anything else but links and the briefest description, but the links are consistantly interesting and off the beaten track.  Here's a typical example - the Irish Times on 'by the numbers' teen bands: "It's a piece of piss in a boy band. You can write the most contrived drivel for a boy band and sell millions, because teenage girls are in love with the members. They say love is blind. It's also deaf." 11:55:03 AM