{"id":1524,"date":"2006-03-16T21:30:12","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T21:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk:\/blog\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2006-03-16T21:30:12","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T21:30:12","slug":"thursday-16th-march-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/thursday-16th-march-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 16th March 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"Apparently in my review of the best geek watches of all time, a week ago, Hussein informs me that I missed out one of the big contenders. The Fossil Wrist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/03\/21\/review_fossil_wrist_pda\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch<\/a>. Hope this inclusion, makes him happy.\n\nThe Sky TV guide has changed with the music channels moving over to a new start of 340 instead of 440. It feels rather strange punching in that number onto the Sky Remote. Thankfully I have used this opportunity to reprogramme the Favourites, although even now still tend not to use them.\n\nCame in this evening to see a suspiciously looking small black plastic bag on my desk. Then I realised what it was and quickly opened it up. I am sure by now you have seen the adverts featuring Ben Affleck on television. If not, where have you been? A copy can be seen here<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visit4info.com\/details.cfm?adid=30230\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> on Visit4Info. The Lynx (or more commonly know internationally as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Axe_%28deodorant%29\" target=\"_blank\">Axe<\/a>) commercials have improved over the last few years, but my favourite still remains, the guy and the bar dancing along with the two girls. Put it down to a bit of a personal fantasy. Moving swiftly on, perhaps I should use the Clicker on a night out. I am out in Windsor next Friday (24th) but something tells me that I won&#8217;t end up in a club and more importantly with not register a single &#8216;look&#8217; or should that be &#8216;take&#8217; on my portable hand counter.\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/teg\/113438004\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/48\/113438004_576f591af2_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Lynx Counter\" width=\"185\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently in my review of the best geek watches of all time, a week ago, Hussein informs me that I missed out one of the big contenders. The Fossil Wrist Watch. Hope this inclusion, makes him happy. The Sky TV guide has changed with the music channels moving over to a new start of 340 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,709,1064],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-axe","tag-geek-watches","tag-lynx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.t-e-g.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}