Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life
The journal
Klout a service for seeing how influential you are on Twitter makes me a connector with a score of 18.21 @Euan scores a 63.61 making him a Persona (Someone who has built a personal brand around their identity.) up there with Stephen Fry and Ben Goldacre Klout – Twitter Analytics – Influence Summary for Geoff […]
Today its Twitter’s turn to modify their Terms of Service . Much shorter than the iTunes agreement at 1624 words (11242 )although the lawyers once again love their long sentences 73 words (99) with the number of sentences at 1/10th that of iTunes. Here is the Textalyser data. Total word count : 1624 Number of […]
Having just upgraded my iPhone software to 3.1. I was suddenly confronted with the monster 69 iphone pages of contract before I could access Itunes. Just for fun I analysed it in Textalyser and Wordle. Here are the results:- Total word count : 11242 Number of different words : 1530 Complexity factor (Lexical Density) : […]
According to the natty programme developed by Stats about me. My Facebook profile shows:-“You have 124 friends, 4 more than average. 61% are male, 39% are female. 11 are single, 54 are dating or married. If you contracted a deadly variant of flu, you would likely infect 9 people, 1 of whom would die. If […]
Many thanks to Sally, Em, Sarah, Caroline, Ray, Liz, Chester, Karen, Roberto, Ellee, Tony & Lorraine for coming to my little birthday party organised by Sally to see Romeo & Juliet tonight at Downing College. It was a great performance and had the big audience totally spell bound. All 13 of us enjoyed Emily’s freshly […]
My cycling trip to Les Gets is getting closer, the bike is getting its handlebars changed with new gear shifts and brake handles, so hopefully my back won’t be crippled like what was happening with the previous dropped bars, now purchased the same saddlebag as I had as a kid, unbelievably the design hasn’t changed […]
A newish UK based service is Ipadio which enables you to record messages from your phone (it has a free iPhone app as well) direct to an embeddable file or a downloadable mp3 . It works well although I cocked up the membership by registering on the iPhone and on the iMac 🙂 I received […]
Great video by Ze Frank explaining about ideas! Thanks to lifehacker for the original post. [gmap]
Today was the annual London to Cambridge bike ride. (For some reason they have removed the web page with the actual ride on it!) Which I’ve been doing on and off for the past 20 years or so, today was the first time for perhaps 5 years….. Unfortunately, for Sally and I, the ride has […]
Sat update Cambridge, Hills Road, Domino’s Pizza place has just been forced to close because of a complaint from Rebecca Jane B? which the council inspectors upheld:- “An infestation of rats in the premises resulting in a significant risk of contamination to foodstuffs and a risk to public health. In addition, there is an accumulation […]