Why does travelling to Sunderland by public transport take so damn long? If you live in Tyneside area you’ll know that its a real pain to get anywhere south of the river using public transport. Your only options are to sit on the Metro for 45-90 minutes as it stops at every stop going around the system before you finally get to your destination in Sunderland; worse […]
Fixing Blofeld “Spectre”, the 24th installment of the James Bond movie franchise movies saw the re-introduction of Ernst Stravo Blofeld. The noted arch-vile and mainstay villain of the classic 1960’s Sean Connery James Bond movies was rebooted for a modern era and audience. However, as many reviewers and commentators have stated; this version of Blofeld, played by […]
Throw away your metal Indian club bells Often hyped as “Indian clubs”, the metal club bells found on the Internet and some retail shops are often used for swinging motions to help strengthen, build and improve stability issues in the shoulder; such as the rotator cuff. However, having spent some time using the Wooden indian clubs, I can say that the metal […]
Swift 3 – Using .map to walk through and create an array of items with offset Sometimes I want to create a quick way to add a number of items with a name; such as creating 10 decks with an offset number. Usually this can be done like this; // usual way; var decks : [Deck] = [Deck]() for idx in 1…10 { decks.append( Deck.init(name: “#\(idx)”) ) } But I find […]