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A year with a Fitbit
Today marks my first aniversary with a Fitbit, well two of them as one broke getting on the plane in Geneva. The replacement one, kindly supplied FOC by Fitbit eventually got caught up in a washing machine cycle 🙁 Fortunately, by then I had fixed the original one with superglu, the second one has now…
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40 days of wear on Scarpa Hiking Boots
Final update! I returned the boots to Open Air who sent them onto Scarpa’s UK agent (Mountain Boot Company). on June 8th they refunded me the full purchase price with an admonishment from Open Air that they won’t supply me another pair of this boot model! This an update to the disappointing saga of my latest pair of Scarpa…
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Postcard index for my South West Coast Path Walk
Last night the Jones design team did a great graphic design of my walk complete with interesting facts. The design is currently been made into a physical postcard by VistaPrint. I intend sending a copy to every b&b I stayed at, as a lot of the owners expressed an interest in knowing whether I finished…
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How long should a pair of hiking boots last?
I bought my latest pair of Scarpa Terra GTX boots, from Open Air in Cambridge, UK on the 7th April 2012 for over £120 (the price has rocketed recently since they moved production back to Italy from Romania) , in preparation for walking the whole of The South West Coast Path which is just over 1000km…
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Geoff’s Weather Station
Sally bought me a Oregon WMR88 weather station with anemometer, wind direction, outside temperature and rainfall gauges. I’ve finally have it working with the Asus Eee running XP Pro in its 8GB of memory and uploading the data through my WiFi to Wunderground. Giving the lovely chart above. Next job is to mount the anemometer onto the…
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my sleep & nocturnal ramblings
Here’s a bit of a review of Sleepcycle, Fitbit & Zeo as ways of monitoring your sleep activity. It has to be said at the outset that I have never suffered from a problem with falling asleep or staying asleep 🙂 My only problems are my nocturnal ramblings to take a pee due to my…
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Going into the red to get out of the red!
Nope, I’m not talking about borrowing money to pay of credit card debts. I’m talking about The Fitbit 🙂 and balancing the amount of calories you eat against the calories you burn through exercise. The Fitbit rates your exercise levels into 4 levels, sedentary, lightly, fairly & very active. Very active is shown as red…
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Getting level with UK Limited company accounts
If you are of a curious nature and love snooping around business information. Level Business is a great site for INSTANTLY downloading accounts and other information on all UK limited liabilty companies, and even better its free and produces the information in easily read form.
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Random Number Generator
Here’s a pretty interesting site that allows you to generate random numbers. Not quite sure what I would use it for 🙂 but interesting in a random sort of way. The numbers generated by this widget come from RANDOM.ORG’s true random number generator.
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A night with Google Reader
Now for the first time in ages I’m having time to explore my google reader feeds and experimenting with the Chrome browser. Tonight I was reading “My hearts in Accra” feed and I came across this:- Everything the Internet Knows About Me (Because I Asked It To) – Digits – WSJ Zach Seward looks at…