Thursday, March 19, 2009

Excellent PDF Tool

I;ve just found an excellent PDF tool. The guys at http://www.a-pdf.com have a few products to manipulate PDFs in various ways. Best for me is the PDF Content Splitter. This lets you choose a portion of the screen and split the contents based on the value of that area. So if you've got invoices for example you could split the file into one file per invoice number! Excellent work guys!

Download the program here

There's lots more tools too. Excellent work guys.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Twitter

So I've started Twitting. It was prompted by Di, who had already started. I couldn't have her geeking ahead of me. It has me a little worried though - will my blog and facebook get jealous if I update Twitter and not them? Am I now obliged to tell 3 online services my innermost thoughts? It won't be long before the only thing I can fb/Twitter/blog will be the fact that I'm updating my Twitter/blog/fb!

Monday, March 02, 2009

The Big Weigh-In

So having had a good game of squash tonight I thought it was time to jump back on the WII Fit (although you should never jump on the fit board - he gets very cross!) and check my weight - I wasn't confident. I have had a bad weekend and not been too good with watching what I eat over the last couple of weeks. Bravely I stood on the board, resisting the urge to increase the usual clothing compensation, and breathed deeply when he told me it had been 31 days since my last visit. He measured, told me I was leaning slightly to the right and eventually presented me with the BMI chart. Anxiously I watched the bar rise toward my previous BMI. If it stops around the same place I'll be chuffed, I'm not even sure that I'd resent a small increase. Mercifully the bar slowed and stopped short of the previous value. A quick click revealed avVery satisfactory, 6lb weight loss! Get in!

My new target is 7lb in 4 weeks. I wonder how I'd have done without the bad weekend? Have to put it to practise this time!

Sunday, March 01, 2009

An Under-Used Resource

Fresh air! Great isn't it? Freely available, good for your health, non damaging to the environment. The thing is though - we just don't use it. I'm out walking the dog at moment soaking the free fresh air. I'm a keen walker, I've got me boots on, a powerful stride going and only a slightly runny nose! Having said all this I haven't used the provaleage for months and I've even got a four legged friend that demands it! I think the world should wake up and start using it more. The birds are singing, the scenery's brilliant and even on an overcast day like today the world looks great!

This got me thinking more. The worlds use of the fresh air and country side is a bit like it's of God. There's plenty about that prophess to use it, loads that say they think they'd like it, but don't get time and the general image of someone that really does like it is of a spotty rambler with a stick. The rambler wears the sensible clothes and hiking boots because it makes the job better, not because the clothes male them who they are.

God is good for you, He's freely available and truth be told, you don't even have to wear the sandles! Give it a go - if you walk with God, I'm sure you'll be back for more soon!