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  • Autumnal Observations

    A few notes from my walk around Cambridge today. The guy I know who runs a tiling warehouse store (I was his first customer 15 years ago) said the bottom just fell out of his market 3 weeks ago. He is a loyal Barclays customer with a 40K overdraft, without warning or for any reason…

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  • UK Poker Ads on Google

    Google ads for Poker – American viewers please look away 🙂 Powered by ScribeFire.

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  • Make your own Health and Safety signs.

    Generate your own Health and safety signs at the adletters website, unlimited opportunities. Thanks to Doc Searls for the heads up 🙂 Powered by ScribeFire.

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  • The Google monopoly!

    Just looking at my Google Analytic figures for the past 30 days:- Looks like Google has a bit of a monopoly to me! The real reason for looking at my analytics was to see if the link Steve Pavlina gave me has made any difference to my readership. Looks like about 160+ folks wandered over…

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  • Be careful what you wish for!

    Last night I went to a couple of excellent talks here in Cambridge. The University talks are one of the big reasons for living in Cambridge, Here is my personal list of talks. Top notch speakers excellent bright youthful audiences and free drinks afterwards whilst chatting with the leading experts of the day. The first…

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  • iPhone external battery test run

    Tomorrow is the big day for trialling my new external iPhone battery pack, that I recently purchased with the gift voucher that Euan gave me for loaning him my old iPhone 🙂 I will be at Be2Camp 2008 during the day and then, hopefully, meeting up with Annie Mole at the Photography.Book.Now London Meet-up in…

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  • Some activity missing from here?

    Here’s a clip from a survey that fell out of the local free mag, Cambridge Style:- Shurely there is some major activity missing from it? Powered by ScribeFire.

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  • EverTrail on the iPhone

    Another day another new iPhone application. Today it was EveryTrail. In the past I used my Garmin Etrex as a GPS and a regular camera, by fiddling with LoadMyTracks, HoudahGeo and Flickr I managed to upload my walks to Everytrail. Today it all changed 🙂 Here is my test walk around Cambridge with the iPhone:-…

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  • Steve Pavlina on Truth, Love & Power

    I originally discovered Steve Pavlina‘s blog when searching for public speaking, several years ago using Google. His blog led me to Toastmasters which I then discovered met in a hotel literally 100 yards from where I live in the UK!. Since then I have followed his experiments with great interest using his blog as a…

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  • Beeching’s cuts 40 years on.

    Just under a year ago I posted up to YouTube some of my Uncle Kens (He married my fathers younger sister, Helen) old cine films which we had converted to video. The film that he took in around 1969 showing the demolition of Nottingham Victoria station, which he shot from his offices, has now had…

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