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Iphone internet access
As wonderful as the iPhone is you still need a connection to the outside world. Here in Samara there are a couple of Internet places offering wifi at 1000 colones per hour (about £1.50) not sure how they define an hour for a mobile device! Or maybe I could use the local I.C.E mobile operator…
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Local life
Had an incredible nights sleep on my boardlike bed, the secret is a quick shower then straight to bed so the latent heat of vaporization cools you down. It’s great to be woken by the squealer birds, just wish I wasn’t so stiff when I woke up. Need to do my pilates again. I visited…
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Arrival
Arrived in the Cost Rica backpackers hostel at 5pm after leaving Cambridge at 2.45am, A long day with all the connections clicking into place, lets hope it goes as well for Sally. The immigration officer was very friendly even though ne noticed my birthplace, on the passport, doesn’t have a football team. Knew i should…
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100K mark reached
Today I noticed my Flickr viewson the 5,697 images I share have reached 100,089 🙂 Would have been nice to display my popular image of all time but Flickr don’t seem to let me find out easily, anymore 🙁 Wonder how many pictures the collection will grow by on the the next 90 days!
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Accidental successes
Some clips from Jeff Jarvis which I totally agree with. Twitter“On celebrity, Marwick says that it is a one-to-many relationship. Celebrity is having followers. Aha, so that makes Twitter a machine that makes us all celebrities, no? Everybody’s famous to 15 followers.” Flickr“When the photo service Flickr started, its husband-and-wife founders, Caterina Fake and Stewart…
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Getting air in Les Gets
Les Gets is having plenty of snow this year :-). Here is a snapshot of the webcam in the centre of the village, looks like they have set up a snowboard park in the village square with some guy just getting air on his board! You can see my apartment on the webcam as well,…
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Ryobi IR thermometer instructions
A post for posterity, in case I loose the instruction manual for my Ryobi IR Thermometer Model SW-638E, a Christmas present from Sally. It can measure temperatures of -20 to +315 degrees Celsius However, for the lower temperatures it can take 10-15minutes to adjust. For best accuracy the objects have to be under 2 feet…
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That special relationship with the USA
So much for the UK’s special relationship with the USA. The word United Kingdom or UK have never been mentioned in a Presidents Union Address. Here are the results for England and Britain! Seems as though we didn’t get much of a mention after 1950! Many thanks to speechwars for the analysis. Powered by ScribeFire.
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Gun to Guns on Gun Green
Boer War Gun at Gun Green Originally uploaded by geofones A lovely bit of local history detail that Alan Brigham dug up from Mike Petty after Alan visited my flickr set of Old Cambridge postcards. (The Boer war ended in 1902) Its such a great pity that all the newspapers archives are not online and…