Personal
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Something for Sally
I think Sally is going to need one of these soon:-
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Eating in or out?
Spurred by reading this on CNET “he heard Google’s Marissa Mayer whisper that in these times of infinite woe, more people were googling “recipes” than “restaurants.” I thought I would give it a try using Google Trends, and for the UK it seems correct:- As you can see there a been a definite reduction for…
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Spam and overnight success
After reading the excellent post “Overnight success takes a long time” by Paul Buchheit on the history of gmail it stirred my memory into why I use gmail. The answer is this prominent button: Before gmail came along. Spam was a real problem for me, as you can see from the last 10 MINUTES worth…
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Twitter facts
Interesting wordle of all my twitters, compiled at tweetstats, over the past 26 months at the rate of 3.9 tweets per day 🙂 Thanks to Sally for the heads up! Powered by ScribeFire.
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Boxing day barrel rolling at Grantchester
After yesterdays gluttony we just had to have a semi decent walk today, for some reason I wanted to walk to Grantchester, in hindsight because I had seen the signs for the annual barrel rolling in Grantchester last week!. However, I had completely forgotten about that when we set off! I was also wanting to…
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2008 in pictures
Here is the lovely smiling Sally during 2008 , from having her fortune read at Caroline’s New Years Eve party to our latest walk last weekend. From Sally in 2008 Or you can look at all the pictures here Quite fascinating to see all the activities we do together, walking, skiing & swimming + 🙂…
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Apologies..
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914) A very apt quotation especially after hearing Wodehouse mentioned in a BBC radio programme yesterday, where he was being…
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Winter Solstice walk
Today was the shortest day and we celebrated it in gorgeous sunshine with a walk by the Cambridge Rambling Club A team, ably led by Larry & Margaret . A decent turn out of 14 hikers did the over 14 mile circular walk from Balsham via Brinkley. Cambridge Ramblers – Balsham WAlk Widget powered by…
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Personal website values
Another site for checking the predicted monetary value of your website over at WebValuer. Here are the results for GeoffJones:- Cool to see I’ve had the site for over 10 years now and interesting to see there seems to be a slight upward trend in visitors. At $7.74 a day I’m not going to get…
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Three generations of The Jones boys
Em spotted the likeness between these photos. What do you think?