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When will they learn….Ski Hire Les Gets France
My friend Thierry who runs Nevada Sports, a really passionate person dedicated to ski/snowboard/mountainbike sales and rental in Les Gets, France. Thierry is keen to raise his internet profile. I’ve suggested to him blogging but to no avail. His latest attempt at a web site is using Clic online to implement a flash effort. Running…
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Personality Test
A really cool way of testing your personality is at PersonalDNA.com using really slick sliders and 2D layouts. I’m a Free wheeling Leader apparently And two of my children are:-The Animated Visionary and The Cautious Director:- So perhaps we will get a family business up and running one day althought our common thread is a…
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First Skype video
Here is a still of my first video Skype call with Nick. Only problem is it seems to crash his network 🙁Its really cool, although a biyt ‘jerky’ . I like the PIP (picture in picture) mode.
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Oops thats $5 billion gone……
John Battelle reports from Barrons that “As Google starts to spend the $5 billion it raised through two stock offerings in the past year and a half, its senior executives have aggressively sold shares. Co-founders Brin and Page have each sold more than $1.5 billion of stock. CEO Eric Schmidt sold $493 million. Omid Kordestani,…
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Technorati Search: brrreeeport
Robert Scoble suggested, as an experiment we should all blog the expression brrreeeport to see how it travels around the world on on this technorati page. I guess it all fits in well with what Samuel Blanning of Southampton mentioned in The Times letter page “apart from its penchant for nauseating neologisms, such as “blogosphere”…
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Blocked drains
Well done to Anglian Water. Woke up this morning to find that when flushing the toilet the water backed right up the bowl. Ah I thought the pesky drain blocked again (at one time it was always getting blocked) so I took my trusty rods to the end of my drain (we share it with…
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Dan Hussey – English Chair Maker
Suzanne forwarded me along the web address of her chairmaker. If anyone could benefit from a good blog like English Cut did then Dan could! Just imagine a blog eulogising about the creation of an English chair made from coppiced ash. It could follow the cycle of tree management to the creation of the chair…
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Naked Conversations
Arrived home, in the UK, from LIFT06 to discover that Robert Scoble and Shel Israel’s book has arrived, delivered from Amazon, Frankfurt, Germany. Pity it didnt arrive before LIFT as it would have been good to get it signed by Robert. Now just need to read it and see how it compares to their original…
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del.icio.us feeds
For all those of you, including me!, who where fans of Robert Scoble’s link blog. Here is its latest reincarnation at del.icio.us I met Robert at LIFT06 where I mentioned my enthuasism for del.icio.us, my page at del.icio.us is here although it can also be seen, with all my blogs on the superglu mashup here…
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Xavier Comtesse
Xavier has just finished his talk, here at LIFT06, The ordinarys people revolution. He has introduced two new words:- Transformactors are people who transform human action into an algorithm.Consumactors are doer’s who takes an unfinished product eg ipod easyjet and complete it. He highly recommends a book by Alain de VulpianFrom a rigidly regulated mass…