Author: nickjones

Thanks to Silicon Valley Watcher I came across this really cool application by Soonr It enables you to a) Get Skype to call you back on your mobile phone thus giving you access to very low cost international phone calls.b) Access to your desktop PC enabling you to search your desktop files etcc) Use your […]

Tonight I excelled myself by winning the Apple of Discord award at Cambridge Cogers. The Cogers are one, if not the oldest, debating society in the world. Founded in Fleet St. London in 1755 The Cambridge group only started a few months ago. My talk was on the difference in the morality of a farmer […]

Thanks to Ellee we can now welcome another blogger to the sphere. Its Liza from Tempting Fate an introduction agency based here in Cambridge. Her blog can be found at http://www.tempting-fate.com/blog I’ve set her up with a standard blogger account that posts her entries onto Tempting Fate’s server rather than onto Blogger. The original problems […]

The Internet Stock Blog » Top Ten Social Networking Sites (NWS, GOOG, MSFT) Interesting table showing growth in social websites. Amazingly YouTube has gone from zero to 12 million unique views in a year – the power of video! Even good old Blogger has grown 80% in a year.

It has to be said one of the things I miss the most when I’m away (apart from feeddemon) is listening to the di.fm trance channel. They play the most awesome sets. Currently its Rez I Dent – World (cor fijneman remix). I notice the premium version has now dropped to a more decent $4.95 […]

Today Caroline convinced me to do the Oxfam walk with her today. After starting off at 8.30 we decided to go for the 21mile version rather than the full on one of 26miles. I didnt mind as still recovering from The Pennine Way. We did the 39,922 steps in a respectable 5.9 hrs (3.6mph) plus […]

Dave Winer has released a natty little tool that enables you to share your RSS feeds with others and at the same time compile a list of the most popular feeds. Off the 600+ blog feeds I added around 200 were new to his database. Share Your OPML » Top 100 Feeds

Chris andI wandered into the The Border Hotel in Kirk Yetholm at 5.50pm, parched and hungry after a final day of over 29miles across The Cheviots in blazing sunshine for most of the day. All the pictures of the trip can be found on this site here. Hopefully, I will annotate them all, currently they […]

A Geoff special photoshot of the M62 motorway taken from the Pennine Way bridge. The motorway comes as a bit of a shock after wamdering across lonely moors for several days. 

Amusing defacement of the Ladbrokes betting shop frontage in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, UK Apparently there was resistance to them opening up a bookies there hence the more apt title of Sadblokes