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The journal
What a great place to live is Cambridge. I’ve just upgraded my list of talks that I can go to in The University, where else in the country do you get such a proliferation on Nobel Laureates, Fellows of the Royal Society etc giving such talks in delightful surroundings. Last night’s was in the tardis […]
I wonder how many 8 year old kids would do this trip these days:- 8 year old cycle tour in the Peak District – Widget powered by: EveryTrail We did it as a family of 5 with me being the youngest at 8 years old. 85 miles or so through some of the hilliest countryside […]
VeganBob has come up with two excellent sites that help in linking FaceBook to the world outside its previous walled garden. To extract calendar information like birthdays and events from Facebook use fbCal , you can then easily add the events to your regular calendars such as ical gcal etc To get a neat URL […]
A bit more on my house’s carbon footprint. I buy my gas and electricity from e.on (was Powergen) they are now doing rather snazzy graphs from my energy bills and also calculations of actual CO2. They have calculated in 2007 I generated 3.5 tonnes of CO2 and for 2008 it will be 4.6 tonnes (problem […]
Tabs currently open in my browser:- http://www.filtermyrss.com/index.php Looks an interesting way of filtering an RSS feed YouTube – Vista geral da Curve Brigde Look away if you suffer agrophobia – a must see trip for me 🙂 deputydog | gephyrophobiacs: look away now The most gorgeous bridge ever! Users: Robert Scoble – Upcoming This guy […]
Oh dear according to this:- You Are in the Anal Stage of Development According to Dr. Freud, you are stuck in the anal stage of development. If your parents didn’t discipline you enough as a young child, you may be messy, reckless, and defiant. If your parents disciplined you too severely as a young child, […]
Today I had the house’s energy performance certificate done:- According to it I should be spending £205+£1704+£151= £2060 and if I spend a shed load of money it would get to £1743 per year. Well according to my records in the last 12 months I’ve spent £1152.42 🙂 So is the HIP worth having! Interestingly […]
I have become increasingly frustrated by the inability to easily add my photographs to my wikiloc walk traces and also the relative poor quality of the underlying maps that they use. So the search has been on for a system that easily combines my GPS traces with my Flickr photos and using preferably Google maps. […]
Today at Noon was the official start to my swimming season here in Cambridge with the Jesus Green pool opening. The water was at a balmy 51°F a couple of degrees warmer than last year. I managed 2 lengths (Sally did 4). Jordan, the reporter was there from the Cambridge News and he reckons our […]
Following up from my daughters profile:- (Extraverted Sensing with Introverted Feeling) just about sums me up