http://www.tanbot.com More bot than tan Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:28:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Congrats Australia, we've now claimed the title of the most obese nation per capita, with 26% of adult Australians - almost four million - classified as obese.  The health statistics are pretty shocking, citing "700,000 heart-related hospital admissions in the next 20 years due to obesity alone, and almost 125,000 ... http://www.tanbot.com/2008/06/australia-now-most-obese-nation/ If you're bored at work and the boss is looking, Read at Work formats books to look convincingly like powerpoint presentations.  Now you can make your co-workers think you're looking at boring financial reports, while reading George Orwell's Animal farm!  There's even a whole OS (Widows BC) to go with ... http://www.tanbot.com/2008/05/read-at-work/ Some random geek humour.... http://www.tanbot.com/2008/05/random-geek-humour/ I always thought that barbeque-ing simply involved marinating some fine meat and ingredients, plopping them on the grill and coaxing the goodies to a suitable shade of brown - somewhere in-between red and charcoal.  Well obviously I am not a true purveyor of the flamed grilled cow, because I found ... http://www.tanbot.com/2008/05/the-fine-art-of-bbq-ing/ I've actually been on a 21 day partial fast, inspired by "The Daniel Fast" by Jentezen Franklin Ministries.  The motivation in doing was in believing God for a breakthrough both individually and corporately as a church.  The basic premise of the fast is how Daniel in the bible only declined ... http://www.tanbot.com/2008/02/healthy-and-veggie/ As a soon-to-be dad, the results of a survey of 2400 Australian air travelers brought some thoughts to mind.  According to the survey, 81% of travelers thought that there should be a separate area for babies on long haul flights, 16% thought that everyone deserved to be treated equally, while ... http://www.tanbot.com/2008/02/baby-flyers/ What is it about hotels that make it such a luxurious stay?  Is it the fact that you can leave the air conditioning on all day and night without a care for the bills?  Is it because your comfy bed is made and room tidied every day?  Or that you ... http://www.tanbot.com/2008/02/thoughts-on-hotels/ Hey, according to an article in The Age, scientists are now proposing that high consumption of sugary drinks "don't just go hand-in-hand with obesity, but actually cause it". Wow! The traditional view is that it's more the lack of exercise and poor eating habits that causes obesity; but now they're ... http://www.tanbot.com/2006/03/sucking-on-sugar/ I'm so bummed... I took a walk to the supermarket especially to buy a bottle of Pepsi so I could enter their rock paper scissors promotion... You sms in a special code found on the bottles, and 1 winner is picked every 30 minutes. If you win you can choose ... http://www.tanbot.com/2006/03/pepsi-schmepsi/ If only everyone didn't take life so seriously... :D http://www.tanbot.com/2006/01/xbox-360-ad/