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The journal
First back from Nicks having completed, at last, the installation of his Arke compact staircase and then straight to Cambridge Rugby Union Football Club for the lunch and match against the Bees (Bradford and Bingley) who Cambridge soundly thrashed at 41 -17 an excellent game and also good lunch in the Camstead suite with Philip and his […]
On Saturday George and I did the Kentmere Horseshoe in The Lake District. The weather was foul with a couple of very heavy showers and low visibility virtually all the day. Still it was very enjoyable. The image is the memory-map route that we fed into the GPS. For those of you who want to see […]
On Sunday George works on Southport pier so I thought it would be a good excuse to do a bit more of the round Britain barefoot coastal walk. George dropped me off at Crosby so that I could walk the 15miles on the beach back to Southport. I was lucky enough to see some of […]
Great analysis of the youtube phenomeme by Jay Meattle who has posted the graph below. (Thanks to Techmeme and ZDnet for the link). It makes Myspace look really pedestrian. My guess is that Murdoch must be getting a bit rattled. Hence the reason for yesterday scare stories in The Times (also owned by Murdoch) about the […]
Today I bit the bullet and finally cleaned up the date book on my Treo 650. I’ve been hotsyncing the calendar data for the past 6 years and had accumulated 25,509 records. I got this dire warning in my HotSync log:- “Some handheld records were not copied to your PC. Your computer may be full or you […]
For those of us who are interested in brickwork bonding and can tell the difference between Flemish and Stretcher bond. Here is a bit of a challenge discovered in Bury St Edmund’s today. And for all you roadsign buffs here is the first illuminated road sign in the UK put in place in 1935 […]
A Message was received from the mobile number 07971428715 with the message: First post using SMS via the sms to email relay at www.aql.co.uk as used by the beeb on www.bbc.co.uk/radio1 Its free apparently If you want to send emails from your mobile, send a message like this:“the@emailaddress.com message to person” to 07766 40 41 […]
An excellent chart produced by Douwe Osinga, of Google Trends fame, where he has taken the age of deaths from everyone mentioned in Wikipedia (‘famous people’) and plotted against the year they died. I’ve always speculated that rich people, in the past, never lived much longer than their poorer counterparts ie that medical intervention […]
One of the excellent reasons for living in Cambridge is the diversity of entertainment on offer. Last week for me included:- Hazel O’Connor at the new Junction4 theatre. She appeared and sang even though she had a throat infection. I found it moving the way she explained how each of the songs came into being. […]
Here is a search on my name using the new idea of Google’s called searchmash It seems pretty awesome to me ranking me in the top 3 positions :-). However, as always the image searches are very poor. I have never worked out how they select images or when they last indexed them. So well […]