nickjones

  • Interesting website on the Millenium bridge here which explains why it wobbled (basically when we walk 10% of force is sideways rather than main force which, of cause, is up and down) apparently bridges have wobbled before but no one bothered to report it to engineers! Anyway its good to know that 200 engineers designing…

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  • A good story here about google and evil. Here is an interesting excerpt here:- “What is this?” asks a visitor squinting at the form he must sign before proceeding to the cafeteria at Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters. “An NDA? To have lunch?” The receptionist shrugs. “This is Google,” she says. “They’re crazy that way.”…

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  • Here is the official UK government census website, with results broken into regions. So within Cambridge there are 2313 other males of my age, interestingly there are 170 more women then men in same range.

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  • Interesting comments on the way that the RIAA are destroying the music industry here never realised the vast sums that are paid as a legalised “payola”. I wonder what happens in UK?

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  • This has to be the future now I’ve added geoURL coordinates to my website I can use their find feature to find all sites close to mine in Cambridge. This is so awesome, to find fellow neighbouring bloggers. Obviously most of them university students but the sites are certainly very good. All these within one…

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  • Stupid bloggerpro did it again. I had edited my site. Of cause this made it lose my blog. So I tried reposting the blog came up with stupid errors saying that it can’t be published. So I removed all settings in publisher on blog, saying I was going to rehost it on their site! Then…

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  • Updated website with GeoURL coordinates

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  • Now tried adding a RSS (Rich Site Summary) feed to my blog – will it screw everything up again? Yep it did came up with this error:- 500 500-“STOR https://geoffjones.com/blogger_rss.xml” Command not understood back to drawing board!

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  • Thanks nick for this url of map a mobile an other UK based mobile phone location service to compete with fleet online who i blogged a while ago.

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  • Last night Colin and I went to Jo’s comedy madhouse at 55 Brewer Street. Soho. To see The Comedy Terrorist do his stuff. The club is in the basement of the The Glasshouse Store. About 50 people turned up (Its a small basement room) to see him MC Phil Nichol, Lloydy the Illegal Streettrader, Phil…

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