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I had a similar problem, replacing my cheap ebay micro-SD card with a Kingston one seemed to resolve it. Do you have an SD card installed ? If so, try connecting it to the computer with the card removed.

Wow. How many was too many ?

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/travel/cheap-travel-money#best

I often find that when I stop for a bus pulling out 5 people undertake me to overtake it

I sometimes find that when I stop for a bus indicating to pull out I'm stuck there for a long time feeling like a chump, because it didn't mean "I'm ready to pull out now", it meant "I might want to pull out sometime in the next minute or two, so I'll stick the indicator on now to save having to wait later".

Necronomicon

The book of dead things that are good to eat ?

That's a radical diet. High in fibre though.

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/gb/groceries/canned-tinned-packaged-fish/sainsburys-sardines-in-spring-water-120g

I eat the whole lot cold straight out of the tin, skin, bones and all. Plenty of omega 3 but also a reasonably cost effective food at 40p for 20g of protein.

We have sit-stand desks. I stood a lot a first but now that the novelty has worn off almost everyone is sitting. A quick visual survey of the office shows 1 stander and 24 sitters.

Train, because my legs are full of delayed onset muscle soreness from Yesterday. It wasn't all that bad today though, not too hot, not too squished. Also, I still haven't got a replacement 29.8mm seatpost collar despite Yesterday's extensive walking tour of the bike shops of Hammersmith. Upside: bike knackered and legs knackered on the same day is better than on two different days.

3/10

I got up early to have a go at the TNRC 5-hills route on the way to work this morning.

Everything seemed fine for a while, then I noticed that my saddle wasn't straight so I stopped to make adjustments. The seatpost was twisting, so I made sure to do the clamp up good and tight this time, stripping the thread and leaving me with no functioning seatpost clamp.

So, option one: a 43km bike ride into work with no sitting down, fixed, 65GI. Option two: the unknown horrors that await me in Gomshall railway station.

I chose option one. Now my legs hurt. I got several strange looks from other cyclists while mashing vigorously along with sweat flying off me in order to achieve a slow pootle.

9/10 - docked 1 point because now I have to go to a bike shop at lunchtime.

The problem would be in obtaining a coupling efficiency of 60%, i.e. making sure most of the kinetic energy was converted into gravitational potential energy in the car, rather than being wasted on stuff like work of fracture in your bones

I think it's reasonable to assume an inelastic collision, in which a crushed and broken combination of Khornight2 and bicycle temporarily sticks to the side of the car before falling away in a crumpled bloody heap. In which case, conservation of angular momentum (with the pivot point at the base of the car's tires on the far side) will give the initial angular velocity of the car's CoM, from which we can work out how much kinetic energy was delivered.

Do you still have the figures you found for the car's mass, width and CoM height ?

A few minutes into this morning's ride, I notice that the Garmin isn't displaying power or cadence.

Grrr, blooby power2max, it's almost new how dare it be broken, exquisite German engineering my hairy arse, etc. etc. Also, no cadence ? I understand that cadence data from the power meter takes priority over that from a speed/cadence sensor, but surely it should fall back to my GSC10 if the power meter isn't transmitting ? Garmin, what a bunch of cowboys, etc, etc.

Oh, hang on, power2max and GSC10 are being ignored because wrong bike profile on Garmin. I am officially a twat.

but why would anyone even ... ah, Wales.

Yeah, but £2 for 20g vs. ~£10 for 500g from your local motor factor

I got mine from Amazon, £6.49 and no need to leave the house.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004HPER6M

Don't cherry pick.

"The second study, published in the European Journal of Nutrition

Not cherry picking, just lazy, honest. I only read as far as the link to the first study.

The second study, like the first, does not claim that low fat milk causes or contributes to the risk of obesity, just that it's "associated" (i.e. correlated) with it.

I don't know, but studies show high-fat milk products equates to lower obesity risk:
npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/02­/12/275376259/the-full-fat-paradox-whole­-milk-may-keep-us-lean

Does it really show that though ? The linked paper says they sampled people twice 12 years apart, binned those who were obese at the start, and found a correlation between becoming obese during the study and being on the low fat dairy.

You can't conclude from that that eating low fat dairy makes you more likely to become obese. It could be that some people are just inclined to obesity, and that low fat dairy helps them to delay its onset. Obesity inclined people on full fat dairy would have been selected out of the study by being obese at the start.

It's particularly hard to accurately predict whether the skywater will be rain or snow, I've heard.

3. Put cereal packets in cupboard - dont leave out in view. (avg. 9.5kg diff. in people who do / don't)
4. Keep fruit in open view (avg. 3kg diff. between people who do/don't)

Also, don't read articles on how to lose weight, such activity is strongly linked with being overweight.

http://xkcd.com/552/

Eating a portion of chips as you ride should avoid that risk.

Empty roads, not too wet, not too cold, 10/10

Do a longer ride than I ever have before in each month of 2014, starting with 225km in Jan and adding 25km each month, culminating with doing the 2014 festive 500 in one ride.

#workupto500

Nope :(

But I'm glad I attempted this. It got me to go out into the lanes on the weekends a bit, something that I never really did before 2014. I made it to 425km before my ankle called a halt, a distance that would have terrified me only a couple of years ago.

I'll be back though: I still want to do a 500k, probably before next December. Maybe sometime around May, when it won't dark for most of the ride.

Nope, I've picked up an overuse injury on my ankle, and it's taken a long time to heal. I've only just worked back up to doing my commute fixed 5 days a week, stupidly long rides are still a way off.

cut off by a gormless looking construction worker driving a big bad van doing a right hand turn out of a side street just by the russian embassy on bayswater rd, i.e. crossing and blocking the dual carriage way i was on, his eyes glued to the not-even-that-hot-jogger bouncing along on the pavement.

you my friend are a stereotype

That'll be MI5 then. The jogger was probably a Spectre triple agent or some such.

When there's dangerous driving is the worst time to be fannying about with a handheld camera, you need to concentrate on not being crashed into.

Sellotape a helmet mount camera to your head, it'll be fine.

I have this cheapo (£28.99) one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00K9QIPT8

Having viewed the video, it's good enough to pick out a license plate if the car is close, but as you'd expect for the price the quality isn't fantastic. The battery lasts about 2 to 2.5 hours in my experience, and there's room on the SD card it comes with for about 3 hours.

The biggest annoyance is that it won't auto-delete the oldest file in a loop, it just stops working when it gets full. That means you need delete the .avi files yourself when you recharge it.