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Wordcamp UK
The proposed idea for a meeting for WordPress enthuasists seems to be picking up steam now. It seems to have a website and logo now. Proposed dates are 19 -20th July and probably in Birmingham. Head over to the website for more details.
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Mobile idea
Latest gizmo I’ve discovered is a way of converting my RSS feed into a mobile version of this website. Tool created by Wirenode. Although for self hosted WordPress users I think that Alex King’s WordPress Mobile Edition plugin which shows a mobile view of the post/page if the visitor is on a known mobile device…
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Palm on the iPhone
Lets hope these guys at StyleTap can get their software working on a iPhone. Would be so great if I could run all my old Treo applications on the iPhone. The Treo applications I miss the most are:- Eatwatch for tracking your weight and exercise. Examples of mine are on Flickr Blood pressure storing and…
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Stop arterial bleeding in 30secs – no torniquet needed!
Interesting post on Wired, 10 things you need in a survival pack I was already aware of most of them. However, totally new on me is Celox – this is from their website “CELOX™ granules are the first in a new generation of emergency hemostatic agents. They are simple to use and highly effective. CELOX…
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Geoff and his Tweet Cloud
Yet another twitter add on – tweetcloud. This one scans all your tweets and generates a word cloud (like a tag cloud), that is the size of the word is the frequency that the word has appeared in my tweets. Currently the favourites are:- new, blog, post. Pretty amazing all the little applications being built…
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Return of the Isle of Ely
Discovered the Google Maps mania post, in Scobles Google reader shared items, on the effects of sea level rises around the world. Here is the map for around Cambridge with the Ely returning to its Island status with only a 2 metre rise in sea levels. Here in Cambridge it would need a 12m rise.…
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Geoff and his twitters
Here are my tweetsats since November 2006, have I really been twittering for 18 months! and always seem to be asleep at 3am Update: Twitter seems to have started in March 2006. Message number 28 by the founder, Ev, is here
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‘Free’ Electricity
Pretty amazing that Tom Evslin living in Vermont used NO electricity in Feb and March except that generated by his solar arrays.“Note that there are NO charges for kilowatt hours because our solar arrays generated more than we used, even late in the Vermont winter”Be interesting to find how much they cost and what their…
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Art of the book
Firstly a disclaimer – Mia is my eldest sons wife 🙂 so this post might be biased a little 🙂 Mia does the most amazing bookbinding ever (this is NOT bookbinding as the normal person would imagine), in fact, it is more to do with sculpture as in 3D works of art. She produces the…
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Speed or lack off 🙁
Oh dear whilst trying to increase the display speed of this site by eliminating all the external RSS calls to Friend Feed and Profilactic and then running a speed test The test came up with:- TOTAL_HTML – Congratulations, the total number of HTML files on this page (including the main HTML file) is 2 which…