Author: nickjones

Really cool site that allows you to generate a RSS feed of the weather forecast for a whole host of cities around the world here. Interestingly first RSS feed that serves up an advertisment as well!

Interesting seating plan for the state banquet in honour of the US president here Amazing that Tesco bagged 4 seats for Terry, Ian and their wifes. No other grocers there but of cause the bearded wonder of Virgin fame was around as well. original post – https://geoffjones.com/2004/08/interesting-seating-plan-for-state.html

This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs (and aggregation sites) are most […]

Lots of photo upload sites appearing all exploiting the gap left by blogger not accepting piccies direct. I guess the lucky winner is hoping to be bought out by google. Ones I am evaluating are flickr which has excellent tagging facilities but is poor on uploading piccies and the new one tonight is zoto which […]

Yesterday was my 57th birthday and what a jolly day I had! Em made Suzanne and I breakfast in bed followed by my pressies from Suzanne – books on: The Pennine Way (Kenneth Oldham 1970) The Peddar Way A Coast to Coast Walk (Wainwright 1973) Wainwright’s tour in the Lake District – Whitsuntide 1931 with […]

Geoff’s Kitchen Computer, originally uploaded by geofones. Here is my much admired kitchen computer, a rather old laptop with no battery or cdrom, permanently on and connected to the internet. Uses a Firefox browser and Trillian. Ideal for settling arguments, checking train times and cooking recipes.

Cambridge Skyline, originally uploaded by geofones. Here is my first attempt at getting flickr to post to my blogger weblog. Posted to my blog OK but didnt ftp up to my site!

Excellent article here about all the good news in Afghanistan. I particulary welcome the education of women and the removal of burqa’s. I personally find the burqa very offensive as a way of demeaning 50% of the population and by that I mean the men who are so weak that they can’t be trusted to […]

Two really great sites mentioned here. Pad2Pad enables you to download some pcb design software and get the boards made and stuffed. Whereas at Online Machine Shop you can download some CAD software and design your own metalwork and get it made. The cool twist to this softwareis that you can specify the type of […]