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Thought of the day mare’s and mere’s
Interesting day dreaming thought today. We have mare for the sea eg Weston-super mareWe have mere for Lake eg WindermereWe have mire for water mixed with soil.We have more (moor) for just earthand OKWe have mure for bricking in a doorway according to OED……
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Geoff live’s in public?
Slowly but surely I’m becoming like Josh Harris in the “We Live in Public” film. With the excellent iPhone app Sleep Cycle I can now publish my sleep status:-Which takes in 1/3 of my day 🙂The other third can usually be found at Everytrail: La Grande Odyssee in Les gets Map your trip with EveryTrail…
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Les Gets dream world
Today, thanks to the Sleep Cycle iPhone app. I was eased out of my dreams at 8am. For the first time in a few days it was a gorgeous sunlit morning, so once Sally was fully equipped at Thierry’s Nevada Sports here in Les Gets we set of to explore the slopes and their fresh…
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iPhone unlock problems
I recently had O2 unlock my iPhone prior to me transferring my number to T-mobile. I wanted to test T-Mobiles unlimited internet and texts for a tenner a month. All went well until…. I’ve now discovered that putting the iPhone into flight mode locks me out of the iPhone totally, insisting that it has to…
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Dumb Google
With all the information that Google has about me you would think they would know better than this:- Obviously they only take in the fact that my computer is sitting on a French network rather than my Google account which shows my address/bank details etc are in the UK. All stupid really when I could…
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Ramble from Shelford to Haslingfield
Todays little walk was with the B team of The Cambridge Rambling Club, ably led by John, we set of from Great Shelford and ventured across to Haslingfield. We did quite a bit of road walking which with the mud and ice was probably just as well. Our lunchtime drink was at the Little Rose…
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Plastic Logic display and Apple?
A thought occurred to me after reading this Twitter from Mark Littlewood. What if Cambridge based Plastic Logic’s new screen is going to be the display for the often rumoured Apple Tablet? With investors pumping 250 million dollars or so it would seem to me that they might have a big company ready to start…
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Walking winter wonderland
Our friend Ellee has just done a great blog post on The Wonders of Walking. Tis a pity she wasn’t with us today as Sally and I had a beautiful walk with the Cambridge Rambling Club. The leaders for today should have been Margaret & Larry. However, due to the icy road conditions and because…
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BT broadband gets a B grade like me!
Here’s a new test of your internet connection that measures things like packet loss, ping times and jitter. My BT connection gets a B grade, a bit like me at secondary modern school!
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Not mobile friendly 🙁
Not good news at all from the W3C mobile checker:- Better news on the house front, A famous poet & author is really interested, better get her autograph as apparently she translated Isla’s favourite Moomin book.