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Linking to Duofertility
Received an email from Shamus at Duofertility (Warning! I’m the smallest shareholder in their parent company Cambridge Temperature Concepts) saying how well they are getting on with the UK national press with mentions in the Daily Mail and The Telegraph. However, as I mentioned at the recent AGM what counts for an online marketing company…
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No Problem in Ely
A great day walking in the Ely area today with Sally, amazing we rattled of 16 miles without a thought 🙂 Ely Area Circular Walk – Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging The highlight was meeting up with Vic & Sue from “Retirement with No Problem”. I have been following there travels around the English…
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Talking about obesity..
What a great place to live is Cambridge. I’ve just upgraded my list of talks that I can go to in The University, where else in the country do you get such a proliferation on Nobel Laureates, Fellows of the Royal Society etc giving such talks in delightful surroundings. Last night’s was in the tardis…
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80 mile bike ride at 8 years old
I wonder how many 8 year old kids would do this trip these days:- 8 year old cycle tour in the Peak District – Widget powered by: EveryTrail We did it as a family of 5 with me being the youngest at 8 years old. 85 miles or so through some of the hilliest countryside…
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A hole in the Facebook fence.
VeganBob has come up with two excellent sites that help in linking FaceBook to the world outside its previous walled garden. To extract calendar information like birthdays and events from Facebook use fbCal , you can then easily add the events to your regular calendars such as ical gcal etc To get a neat URL…
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Carbon footprints and the Professor….
A bit more on my house’s carbon footprint. I buy my gas and electricity from e.on (was Powergen) they are now doing rather snazzy graphs from my energy bills and also calculations of actual CO2. They have calculated in 2007 I generated 3.5 tonnes of CO2 and for 2008 it will be 4.6 tonnes (problem…
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Todays browser tabs…
Tabs currently open in my browser:- http://www.filtermyrss.com/index.php Looks an interesting way of filtering an RSS feed YouTube – Vista geral da Curve Brigde Look away if you suffer agrophobia – a must see trip for me 🙂 deputydog | gephyrophobiacs: look away now The most gorgeous bridge ever! Users: Robert Scoble – Upcoming This guy…
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Lawd I’m anally retentive 🙁
Oh dear according to this:- You Are in the Anal Stage of Development According to Dr. Freud, you are stuck in the anal stage of development. If your parents didn’t discipline you enough as a young child, you may be messy, reckless, and defiant. If your parents disciplined you too severely as a young child,…
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Hip hip dismay
Today I had the house’s energy performance certificate done:- According to it I should be spending £205+£1704+£151= £2060 and if I spend a shed load of money it would get to £1743 per year. Well according to my records in the last 12 months I’ve spent £1152.42 🙂 So is the HIP worth having! Interestingly…