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Mortality and the famous over the centuries.
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…
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Cambridge Entertainment
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.…
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New Google search site
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…
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Ellee on her way up…..
Here is Ellee on her way up in the Conservative blogging community after visiting some of her Conservative blogging friends in London last Friday see her post. I went along as the minder and taker of the official photo. For me as an attendee at numerous tech blogging events in the past it was a…
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A Biologist’s Listening Guide to Bacteria
Fascinating story on how bacteria communicate with each other such as Chlorea that only produces toxins when in groups. Maybe it works for people too…. NPR : A Biologist’s Listening Guide to Bacteria: “‘So they turn on and off 100 different genes, to let them turn off behaviors that are good when you’re alone and…
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The new Treo 750V
Popped into Vodafone Cambridge this morning to find they have just taken delivery of the new Treo750V . (Picture is of their dummy phone taken with my Treo650). It will be released this Sunday, 1st October, but they refused to release pricing details. Looks and feels really sleek, slightly smaller and Nick will especially like…
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Worlds biggest coffee morning
Here’s Fiona McLean doing her bit for the worlds biggest coffee morning here in Cambridge. Free coffee is provided by The CSL group with Macmillan nurses collecting if you want to make a donation.
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And the next one is….
Whilst wandering around Nice I was enticed intothe Papeterie Rontani shop by the IGN map poster. Came out with the brand new FFRP (www.ffrandonnee.fr) 15th edition of the Topoguide to GR20 Á travers la montagne corse. A quick nip down to the harbour confirms that in mid June (about earliest that snow should be gone)…
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The Nice Sea
Made it the Med at 6pm and threw my stick in. Must say the Nice people keep it well hidden took ages wandering the streets, thank goodness for GPS. Now for a beer and somewhere to stay. Fly home Wed arrive midday..Cheers to all Sent from Geoff’s Treo650 Archived comments These comments are preserved from…
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A Nice Day…
The weather is not at all nice on my Nice day. Its been raining cats and dogs with the odd roll of thunder and flash of lightening since I left Utelle 3.5 hours ago with most of the track converted into a watercourse Currently I am holed up in a Rapido cafe in Levens with…