MY BOOK READING

I was a big book reader as a kid, then as I was growing up my book reading stopped. A few months ago I started reading again and once I started I just couldn’t stop.

I was reading biographies from Duncan Bannatyne, Gordon Ramsay and Chris Moyles. As usual I couldn’t leave the stories of war alone and read Sniper One by Dan Mills, 3 Para and Eight Lives Down by Chris Hunter but now I have come to a halt.

I seem to have read all the books that have caught my eye. I’ve looked across all the genres that would intrigue me, i.e. Business, Biographies and Military. I have even ventured in to my world heading straight for the design books and two books did catch my eye, “Transcending CSS” and “Zen CSS” being the books however I don’t think they are going to keep me occupied long enough.

I’ve never been a fiction book reader, I like to focus on reality rather than some crazy ass world with pixies and fairies. Harry Potter is my sworn enemy, I’ve never watched the movies and never looked at one of the Harry Potter books.

So it has come for the time to ask for some guidance. A lot of people will have picked up what kind of thing I am after from the book reviews I have done. To be honest, at this point I am up for anything I just really want to get reading again.

Comments or emails are very welcome.

WHERE TO START

I received an email earlier this week asking for some advice on how to go about being “different from the rest” of all the other gaming website that are now on the web. A lot of time has passed since nVmax was up, running and very very lively. Most of all the market has changed. When I was reviewing games, we were over the moon to receive an XBOX game, and I’m talking about the first XBOX.

We saw a niche in the market where we could expand from talking about hardware into gaming. We restricted ourselves when starting off with PC Games, nVmax afterall was a PC orientated website.

After quickly emerging as a force to be reckoned with because of our readership nVmax was able to build strong relationship with some of europe’s biggest gaming names.

However, when starting off with a gaming website there are various things that you should be looking at;

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HOMEOPATH HELL INTO HEAVEN

Following on from my homeopath hell story, I went ahead and changed my diet. The first week was like hell on earth, I managed to stop the coffee addiction by just going cold turkey. I haven’t had a cup of coffee, bottle of coke or hot cup of tea in over a weekend a half.

After talking with some fitness instructors and other health professionals I was told that the amount of coffee and especially my caffeine intake was extremely high, and to cut it out in one fell swoop was extremely brave. Me being brave seemed like stupidity at the time as I went through a week of hell with constant migraines.

Even keeping a constant flow of water going down my head was a way of stopping the headaches. The first two days I thought I really wanted to give up right there and then to be honest, but I persevered. The next couple of days I simply carried on and fought off the impending messages from my brain telling me I was being ridiculous and that I need to get myself eating “properly” again, meaning the old diet.

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HOMEOPATH GOOD, DIET BAD!

So, following on from my coffee addiction post, I ended up going cold-turkey and literally stopping all intake of any type of fizzy drink, cups of tea and coffee and crap food.

This all happened thanks to a visit that Jen made to a homeopath in Newcastle. She was having a few issues with what she was eating and it was causing some discomfort. She had a chat with the homeopath and found out that she was intolerant to a whole host of foods including anything with yeast like breads etc. There were other big no-no’s such as fizzy pop, coffee, chocolate and other stuff that you shouldn’t be having anyway just out of common sense.

When we arrived home, we had a chat about the whole homeopath session, and I knew I had to give up on the coffee anyway so decided to help Jen along with this new way of eating and started it with her.

CRAZY, CRAZY DIET

I’ve done all manner of crazy things with regards to eating habits in the past. I’ve eaten too much, I’ve eaten too little. I’ve been big, I’ve been thin and I have been very muscular. Nothing prepared me for eating what most scientists would call “bird food”.

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