I tried cutting out a lot of things as, instinctively, I felt it was something in my diet.
I thought I had a winner with dairy when I cut it out of my diet.
For about 2 weeks things improved but then slid back to where they were.
Told my Dr and the reply I got was "yeah, everyone bounces when they come off dairy". WTF?
I'm fine with dairy now, most fruit seems ok but not bananas. Carbs are fine because I exercise.
With sports uptake I had to increase my protein intake which halted the weight loss.
Takes a while for your body to find a new equilibrium but when it does it is so much better.
When I told Dr I had figured out it was sugar the reply was "oh yeah, that's a known irritant". again WTF? Now you tell me?
Arthritis runs in my family and I had started getting joint pain and inflammation in my finger joints especially.
That's calmed down a lot, no more joint pains and hands are pain and inflammation free.
For me anyway, sucrose is a poison.

There's no guarantees for a long life but I think the more important issue is quality of life especially later in life.
I'm now 54 and in an age group that a friend told me was "snipers alley", when I lamented at losing 3 friends of the same age over the last 3-4 years.

I surprised myself by giving up booze about 4 years ago and that helped my health a bit but not as much as a more recent change I made.
About 2 years ago I started getting health issues, minor at first, then more worrying which lead to specialist consultations, MRI's etc etc. Expensive.
Nothing was found that was obvious and it drew a blank while my list of symptoms continued to pile up and worsen.
I got a bit frustrated with the medics who just kept trying different drugs on me to see if anything had an effect.

Now I've never been a fan of the creepy google profiling that knows you better than you know yourself but one day youtube stuck a video in front of me that looked interesting. I'm not going to plug the Dr who made it, so this doesn't look like a promo, but he talked about the problems with sugar and the symptoms of diabetes 2.
Every one of the symptoms he described matched mine. Went back to my quack who tested me but it came back negative for D2.

I decided to quit sugar. Good grief. Giving up booze was easy, real easy, but giving up sugar and trying to avoid it. It's crack cocaine.
However 2 weeks after quitting sugar all my symptoms had almost entirely disappeared.

It's been just over a year now and I've never been as healthy and fit as I am now. All my health problems have gone.
My weight dropped dramatically. I carry no excess body fat and my BMI is around 21.
I've taken up football again and can play with guys 10-20 years younger than myself and I make most of them look unfit.
The addiction to sugar hasn't gone, I had a bit of a craving for booze when I quit that, last a few months, but now I never think of it. No interest in it.
But with sugar that craving is always there, the temptation I sometimes have to endure is enlightening. Makes me realise how hard it is for drug addicts to quit.

I don't believe it is just "cutting calories", but specific calorie sources that need cutting, but that's just my personal experience.
I might not live a long life but I'm now enjoying a quality of life I hadn't enjoyed previously.

When I read the headline I immediately thought of Superman III (1983)
Richard Pryor plays a character who is a uniquely gifted software guru.
Early in the movie he gets a corporate job and skims the company by diverting the fractions of cents from all money movements and transactions to his own account.
I always thought that was clever, and discrete, enough that some rascal would ape it in real life.

I've seen a few articles on the blue/green divide that's favouring Apple's iOS. I should have given one as a citation to my original post. Here's one here.
Headlines like "Never date a green texter" summarise just how much of an issue it has become among the tech purchasing youth.

Yes, 7. Ages 26, 22, 13, 11, 9, 6 & 6 weeks (tomorrow!).

No one wants to be the kid at school who's messages are lame and annoying.
There's probably enough peer pressure already among youth to adopt iOS over Android due to the Green/Blue bubble difference.
This just makes it magnitudes worse because, until now, the different colour wasn't annoying just different. Yeah, I know it's Apple who do the color difference.
Would you want your messages to look cringe worthy when ready by iPhone users when your world revolves around your image and being cool?

What if there's only a hand full of people who know chess so well that they can spot when some one is playing like a machine?
Carlsen would obviously be one of them as is Nakamura who is also being sued.
So in Carlsens position what do you do?
Do you say nothing and hope that they get caught, eventually? They might get away with it and rise in ranking to your level and be lauded as the next Bobby Fischer. Lance Armstrong comes to mind.
Or do you speak out and nip it in the bud now? My immediate reaction to Carlsen's accusation was "I hope you've got good lawyers and feel 100% confident you can prove it".
Sports people generally have a good gauge of their peers abilities and can spot anomalies in performance before anyone else can.
I'm old enough to remember Carl Lewis reaction to Ben Johnson beating him in the 100m right before the doping test confirmed what Lewis's face was trying to tell us all.
The thing about truth is always comes out eventually.

...eh, a very long, bright, thin blade cutting across the country.
Watch the concept video and you'll see what I mean.

Normally we build phallic symbols but this one has a "surgical" theme.

That's real shame. I've often wondered what happened to Impulse. They were a very talented bunch, Computer Concepts.

I bought an A310 when they first launched. It was staggeringly fast for its time.
The free game "Lander" (which you could buy as "Zarch") was astounding if a bit limited.
It was the first true 3D 3rd person shoot em up in colour! (If only David Braben had the fast inverse square root rountine, how much better could it have been?)

Impression was a beautiful Word Processor but the guys who wrote it went a bit further and wrote their own OS to replace RISC OS called "Impulse".
I don't think it was ever released but it offered true multitasking which RISC OS didn't and looked a lot slicker.

Emigrated 8 years ago and after I got settled I tried to move my App biz to my new country. Got 2 out of 4 apps moved to my new account only to be told I couldn't move my "bread winner" apps because they supported iCloud.
This was after me asking Apple in a support ticket if there would be an issue transferring. Sure, they said, no problem they said...
So I've been very patient and it's been expensive for me paying the equivalent to $99 annually for 2 accounts for 5 years because of some random rule.
Two days ago I started the final migration requesting a transfer of just one app (being cautious...) and all went well.
Last email I got from Apple was to tell me the transfer was complete and that "It can take up to three hours for the app to transfer."
That was 2 days ago.... Still waiting. Must be a HUGE backlog of Apps on the move after so many years of others like me patiently waiting...

The 2B's (Boeing and Bezos) using their connections and money because they want to slow the fucker down.
He's so far ahead of them they need to hobble him somehow.
So Musk picks a side and purchases a media organisation, twitter.
It's frustrating because I just want to see those rockets fly!

In June last year I received a surprise, rude, email from Google Play telling me they’d terminated my developer account and not to come back for breaking their Play store rules.
No reason given just "REASON FOR TERMINATION: Prior violations of the Developer Program Policies and Developer Distribution Agreement ..."
I'd had no warnings or any communication that I'd done anything I shouldn't have.
It's just one App that I publish on Play which makes about $10 a month. I don't update it often as it doesn't need much maintenance. Maybe twice a year.
So only thing I was losing was the time I'd put into making it. Not exactly income limiting.

I appealed to Google Play, asking what I had done and after waiting a week for a reply, they re-instated my account.
Again I asked them what I had done, so I wouldn’t do it again, to which I got the reply “we can’t tell you, just read the rules and don’t do it again”.
Eh?

I don’t believe Google cares at all about its Play app store and after that experience I'm not writing another App for the Play store.
Why would I risk doing all that work just to have it randomly terminated without reason?

If the Open App Markets Act get's passed in the Senate then I would fully expect Facebook to withdraw its App from Apple's App Store and make it available exclusively on some other App Store with little or no rules about data harvesting and tracking. Probably its own App store.
There's a wise investment saying that goes "never try to catch a falling knife" but maybe this time it doesn't apply? A good time to buy in at this low point?

Almost 24 hours and this article has dropped off the front page with the youtube video now sitting at 3,947 views.
So 2,890 views in 24hours from getting featured on /.