Personal
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Dubai past and present
Fred Wilson posted these two images of Dubai taken 13 years apart on his tumblr page (linked to the Edibek blog), which contains loads of interesting Dubai facts. I went out this afternoon in the area next to Nicks apartment and you can see the furious rate of building from the number of cranes in…
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Turning off the candles.
Quentin took this fine picture of Kings Parade in Cambridge. Which had me thinking about the current state of street lighting on Kings Parade. Especially after Cathy and I visited the Shire Hall a few years ago to complain about the new columns. A bit of history first, In 1957 the new Richardson lights were…
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This Little Piggy….
Currently I’m in Dubai visiting my eldest boy, Nick and the youngest member of the Jones clan little Isla and of cause Nicks wife Mia. I seem to be getting on OK with Isla who can be quite tetchy, especially if strangers touch her! Here I am playing This little piggy with her toes, quite…
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Photographer Geoff
Just had an email from the BBC:- “Hi Geoff. Can we have permission to use your “Call girls calling cards” photo for the BBC News website? We can credit you if you like (eg Photo by Geofones/Flickr or with your full name if you like. Thanks ” Good to see my photography getting noticed 🙂
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Peace in Iraq?
Couldn’t help but smile at the kink in our flight path to Dubai, to avoid overflying Iraq. Obviously still problems with the airspace..
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Incredible finger painting
Amazing Finger Painting apparently some of them can take 10 hours to do and then they are just washed off!. Not sure who the guy is, if you do please let me know and I will give attribution (or take them down if requested). All I can find out at the moment, is that some…
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Jo Ito censored
I wonder what Jo Ito has been saying or doing to upset the Dubai censors. I notice from Dopplr that he has been over in Dubai. Now I’m getting this from his RSS feed and his website.
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Looking into other mens eyes.
I’ve just returned from my second staffing on a Man Kind Project here in the UK, I did my initial training in June 2004 at the same place I was at this weekend so it was interesting to be back after 3 years. I found the weekend exhausting both physically and emotionally but with some…
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Death of an idea
Rather sad to see that my page at suprglu is now down (link is to google archive dated 15 Nov 2007), so it looks like another great idea has hit the dust. Reading this article I suppose its not surprising “So lacking a revenue model and being simply not interested in the venture capital (despite…
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Taking the piss….
Great picture that caught my eye on Stoat’s blog, taken by him at St. Pancras station, rather sums up some of the UK youth quite well. Meanwhile here is a different perspective on the UK taken at The Judge Business school where aspiring MBA’s are grabbing business cards from the Google girl (Alison Parrin) at…