Finally Apple Safari just got a whole lot better. Apple have added what they call Safari Extensions to their browser. I loved using Firefox in terms of all the plug-ins that are available for it for web development.

However, Firefox has a real problem with memory leaks and I found that if I left it running on my Mac for any long period of time it would eventually just slow it down to a crawl. Even with just one window open the amount of memory it used was terrible.

Safari 5.0.1 is a true 64 bit browser but it always lacked the extensions. Feel it, they are here!  Click on the image to take a look at what is available..

Ken Metcalf

Here are the drinks for the lunch and evening meals for the second day of my 10 Day Juice feast.

Day two was a really busy day for me so I am just going to put up the recipes here

Kiwi

Lunch time is when we normally slow down, however this combination will do quite the opposite. The recipe is again simple and straight forward

• 3 Peeled Kiwi fruits
• 150ml of green tea - made 30 minutes before and allowed to cool
• 1 medium sized banana
• 5-6 sprigs of parsley
• 3-4 ice cubes

Blend in a high power blender for 1-2 minutes and drink.

Red tomato and celery

The evening meal was lighter than last night as I felt over full and was not hungry yet

• Two medium sized tomatoes
• 5-6 sprigs of coriander
• 200ml 100% pure grape juice
• 2 large pieces of celery
• 3-4 ice cubes

Blend in a high power blender for 1-2 minutes and drink.

Day two of the 10 Day Juice Feast completed... now off to gym to go and train.

Well with Day 1 of the 10 Day Juice Feast behind me, I thought I would give some feedback.

I ended the day exercising quite late which would usually have left me hungry, however this was not the case after the very filling smoothie I had for my evening meal

I slept very well and woke up more than an hour early feeling refreshed, which was quite an astonishing result after only the first day.

This morning I am going to make a smoothie with 2 of my most loved smoothie ingredients, banana and strawberry. I can honestly say that this is one of my personal favorite smoothies

Strawberry Zing

Day 2 Breakfast

• One large banana
• 200ml 100% pure grape juice
• 10 medium sized strawberries (about 125mg)
• 5-6 sprigs of coriander
• A handful of Goji Berries
• Thumb size piece of raw ginger
• Pinch of wheat grass (optional)
• 3-4 ice cubes

Blend in a high power blender for 1-2 minutes and drink.

For the next 10 days I will be living exclusively on raw food smoothies and juices.

I will be sharing my 3 meals a day at regular intervals, including some pics and what is in each drink.

Hmmm, The Lotus Elise 111R.  A few weeks ago I had the good fortune of driving a black convertible Lotus Elise 111R for the weekend. This was thanks to the guys from Bentley Cape Town who are also the local Lotus agents.  Hand-Built to deliver exhilaration and exclusivity, the Lotus Elise is a design icon.  Behind the wheel the Elise offers that rare combination of comfort and agility with outstanding pace and compliance. The result is a pure, natural, unforgettable driving experience. A grown up go-kart on steroids......

I spent the entire weekend with a broad smile on my face, looking for any excuse to pop out for a drive.  Even going to do the weekend shopping in it, which proved rather humourous since I ended up looking like an overloaded taxi with shopping bags sticking out from any tiny space we could find.

On the Saturday I got an opportunity to give it a full go.  I had to be on the other side of Cape Town from where I live to attend a good friend's wedding.  What complicated matters is that I had agreed to help with the music at the wedding in terms of playing the wedding march so I could not be late.  Well with half an hour to go the baby sitter had not arrived and we had to make alternative plans.  This meant a high speed chase across the cape peninsula which ended up taking less than 20 minutes.  All I can say is yeeeeehoooowwww....

Some basic specs:
0-60mph in 5.7 seconds
0-100mph in 6.1 seconds
Cross drilled brake discs
ABS with servo assisted brakes....

What a blast!!!

The 2 key principles for me in life are Balance and Simplicity. In response to my blog about the 21 Day Challenge a friend of mine rightly suggested that peoples responses may have been skewed by the fact that it was an excercise based challenge.

This got me thinking about the balance between excercise and the food we consume and the quantity of each we do.  The recommendation from most health professionals is excercise 3 to 4 times per week. On the other hand we eat 3 to 4 times per day and often more if you add in the stops at the friendly vending machine, company snack shop or corner cafe!

My thinking goes that is the days before we wore clothes and tweeted on twitter, we spent a larger % of our time hunting/gathering as compared to eating.  So my question is, have we got it wrong, should we be exercising a LOT more than we do in order for us to be in balance with the way nature intended?  We are all aware of the worldwide pandemic of obesity and the associated conditions such as diabetes and heart conditions.  Maybe, just maybe, we have it wrong and we need to excercise for the same amount of time as we sit around consuming doughnuts and fizzy drinks ?

For me Mind Maps are awesome tools.  Not only do they help you logically and graphically see the ideas around a central theme, they also serve as a to-do or reminder to help my failing memory.  I have been using the free mind mapping software for Mac called FreeMind, which you can Download Here.  It is simple and easy to use and does the job without overly complicating the issue.  it does allow exporting the maps to other formats as well as importing maps from programs like Mind Manager.

There is a nice starter video tutorial series available at Gurushare.  Just watch the first few and you will be up and running quickly.

A while ago I created a Facebook page and subsequently a page on my web site called "The 21 Day Challenge".  The main purpose of the challenge was to excercise for 21 days consecutively for a minimum of 1 hour per day.  I am now on my 3rd 21 Day Challenge and have seen some interesting things which I would like to share with you.

To answer the question posed in the title as to the rationale behind the challenge, it was NOT about the excercise!  The whole idea behind it was an experiment in human behavior.  I wanted to see how people would react to a challenge in general.  There were two distinct reactions:

The first group, which was by far in the majority, immediately threw an excuse at me, often without asking me about any details.  After giving me their excuse, they would begin to gather more information and only after some serious discussion would they even consider it.  I loosely termed this behaviour "safety netting".  The worrying aspect of this behaviour is that it becomes so automated that I can see how a great many people would miss out on opportunities in life simply because their automated way of being closes them off to opportunities and possibilities without the full understanding of those opportunities.

The second and very small group of people just automatically asked me how they can do it and how to take it on, based on the information I provided, they chose to do it or not!  Could there be a link between this kind of behaviour and how successful people are in life generally ?  I think there is......