Improve your putting

And once you land the ball on the green you will need to make sure you can put the ball as well. Checkout this video and learn how to improve your putting.



How To Set Up Your Stance And Grip For Successful Putting

The Perfect Golf Swing

If any of you are golfing amateurs like myself or are looking to sharpen up your swing VideoJug have a really good video guide on how to improve your swing. Check it out.


How To Perform The Perfect Golf Swing

Hamutsun Serve.. ??

I didn't know who these guys were until tonight but apparently they're called Hamutsun Serve. A friend sent me a link to one of their videos and then I spotted the Japanese "animation dance" duo on in the New Justin Timberlake and Madonna video '4 minutes'. Fanastic dancing and music - very original.

Burma Video on YouTube

The guys at Rocketboom have done a good job at putting together a useful video on Burma's background. It includes an appeal from Jim Carey the comedian and actor.

Burma Referendum A Disgrace

As well as blocking the distribution of aid relief by external agencies the Military junta is going ahead with a referendum in Burma despite the devastation reeked on the country by a Cyclone last week. It is estimated that up to 100,000 people we killed by the storm. The acts of the Junta truly are disgraceful and have left the rest of the world utterly appalled.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/10/myanmar.vote/index.html

Burma - Brief History

Burma was conquered by Britain in the 19th century. However relatively shortly afterwards The Union of Burma gained independence in 1948. The Burma Social Party held power for the next 26 years during which people were repressed and the economy suffered. In August 1988 thousands of people convened to demonstrate against the government and eventually on September 18th on the same year the army declared a coup. In the run up to the election the famous leader of the National League for Democracy Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested in July 1989. She was released in July 1995. She was placed in and out of house arrest over the next number of years and since 2003 has remained in detention. Since 1992 Bruma has been ruled by the State Peace and Development council under Senior General Than Shwe. The government has been heavily criticised for its human right violations.

Goodbye Bertie Ahern

As the sun sets on Bertie Ahern's last day as taoiseach of Ireland I thought I would post a small note. Being completely subjective I have some admiration for the guy. He sacraficed everything it would appear for politics and achieved some pretty historic results. Achieving peace and properity for Ireland. Something tells me that he will dodge any remaining flack from the Mahon tribunal and will go on to take up another leadership position in Europe or in Ireland as President.

Articals on Bertie Ahern

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertie_Ahern

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/my-feeling-is-of-gratitude-for-the-chance-i-have-had-1367029.html

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ireland-is-at-peace-1363481.html

UNIX Basics

I use UNIX (solaris) quite a lot at work. I thought I would post a few simple commands that novice users can pick up and use.


ls -l: Will list all of the items in a directory.

mk dir: Will create a directory

grep whatyouarelookingfor * : Will search all of the files in the directory you are in for the string "whatyouarelookingfor".

cd home: Will bring you back to your home directory.

man cd: The man command will return a description of the function you specify i.e. cd

touch newfilename.txt: Will create a new file called newfilename.txt

chmod: Can be used to assign permissions to a file e.g chmod 666 myfile will allow read/write for everyone on myfile. Useful if you have just created a new file.

cp /to/alpha.txt /from/beta.txt: Used to copy information from one file to another.

rm file.txt: Will delete file.txt

ps: Will list the number of processes running on your box.



Hope this helps..

Visit to the Physiotherapist

Its a strange thing going to the physio. Its like going to the doctor without the formality. Anyway, after having some trouble with my knees and pains in my legs recently I went to see what the physio had to say. I laid on my back as he twisted and turned my legs, rolled my knees and listened for cracks and abnormalities. Similar to watching a plumber trying to find an airlock in a heating system. So after 10 minutes of this he finally gave me his diagnosis. On my left knee a loose anterior cruciate ligament and on the right some minor wear and tear. He also threw in tight hamstrings and calf muscles on both legs. I must admit I thought I was invincible. I would go without injury. But as the old adage goes you need to stretch after exercise and take a break once in a while. I can't say I've done either of those over the past year. The physio recommended I go on a program of massages and rehabilitation exercises over the next couple of months. Hopefully I'll be back to my old form by mid summer ;-)

Opinions on the Irish Property Market

Contrary to the heady days, post 2002 to 2006, the slump in the Irish property market is something that is less talked about online these days. Its a bit like somebody who's sprained their ankle. It becomes annoying when they complain about it all the time. As an Irishman I'm proud of what the Irish economy has achieved over the past 20 years. It has brought prosperity and wealth to an island that has been dealt a series of bad hands over the years. What remains to be seen though is how much of this will be retained as the housing market slumps, the US economy contracts and commodities prices continue to rises.
House prices were previously being pushed down largely because they were exceeding prices the market was willing to pay. The sudden introduction of new factors such as increasing mortgage prices, rising eurozone inflation and unemployment will put further pressure on prices and will increase the probability of a crash occurring. Even if prices do come down considerably demand will be impacted as the pool of people who normally look to buy will have been eroded due to unemployment and will have less purchasing power due to higher mortgage costs...

Welcome

Aztecians,

This is an experimental blog about an Aztec in London. Yes, it will be updated each day with rants, essays and conversations about a regular guys living in London. Not only that but I also hope to turn it into a useful information hub covering things I find interesting.

Happy reading,

The Aztec