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Wisdom of crowds – not
Oh dear another great idea poorly executed. Visiting Freds blog I noticed he had a cunning map in his sidebar showing his posts. Clicking on it takes you to outside.in. Of cause I signed up added the widget then tried adding my locations. Total failure its only UScentric 🙁 (even though it has an Indian…
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s106 agreements in Cambridge
I recently visited Cambridge City Council offices with Richard Taylor to inspect their accounts for 2008. One of the interesting things we obtained was a list of all the unapplied s106 money the council had at its disposal. The total as at 31st March 2009 was £8,723,895.62p comprised of over 650 individual agreements. The actual…
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Surprise view
From 20 June – Moray This is a picture that had me guessing when we came across it on a recent walk in Peru – Any guesses as to what it is?Published with no effort using Scribefire 🙂
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How quaint…
I came across this on my twitter 5 hours ago 🙂 jamierumbelowGoing to The Junction to see Athlete – one of my favourite bands, so I’m really looking forward to it! Since I live around the corner from The Junction I thought I would tootle on down there. Shock horror £17 at the door and…
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Auto save those pesky online forms as you type
If you have spend time diligently filling in an online form, only to lose the whole thing due to server timeout, browser crash or any of the other myriad reasons that sods law dictates what what will go wrong will go wrong at a critical moment.. Then you need the Lazarus Form Recovery add in…
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Posting Picasa slideshows to WordPress using Scribefire
Here is an experiment to see if it is possible to publish a slideshow created by Picasa in a WordPress post using Scribefire. You can see it works 🙂 but you must insert the slideshow first by using the small right hand arrow :- and then click on “insert a custom HTML tag”. Paste the…
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Scoble in Cambridge, UK after 4 years…
I failed to wake up for the #travellinggeeks do in Cambridge UK (Oh OK I didn’t even have a ticket for the sell out event 🙁 ) However, tonight Sally and I managed to take Robert Scoble out for an Indian at the Saffron Brassiere , it was great chatting to him again after our…
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My top iPhone plugins.
My very good friend Michael, who has such a way with words, today emailed me “I’ve just requested a PAC from Orange so I am heading inexorably toward an iPhone. You will have to recommend 10 must have apps.” So here are my favourite apps. (Skewed towards travelling) – In no particular order… so: Skype …
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Photography and the police
From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/09/metropolitan_police_photo/The Metropolitan Police has issued guidance to its officers to remind them that using a camera in public is not in itself a terrorist offence. There has been increasing concern in recent months that police have been over-using terrorism laws and public order legislation to harass professional and amateur photographers. The issue was raised…
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My O2 or their O2?
Sally seemed keen for me to upgrade my iPhone, checking out the My 02 website it seemed to indicate that my contract had expired on the 9th May:- However, O2 knows better, after the usual lengthy frustrating call with them , I was told the contract, according to them, expires in December! and no they…