Month: November 2007
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Putting your head in a spin.
A cool optical illusion or a computer gimmick. which way is this dancer rotating? The theory is according to Geoff of Geofftech. If you see it spinning clockwise, then you are a ‘right sided’ brain person, who uses feeling, is ‘big picture’ orientated and your imagination rules you. If you see it spinning anti-clockwise, then…
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Visual Word associations
Just discovered from Adam Pash’s excellent Lifehacker feed this tool for visualizing word meanings. As the Visuwords website says “Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.” Here is the visual word map for Cambridge clearly showing the…
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Wrestling with a Leopard
This so called upgrade to the iMac operating is causing me real problems:- The brand new Lexmark X4580 printer failed to work with the 10.5 OS. Fortunately the user forums suggested removing the printers PDE directory. I then discovered that Leopard doesn’t work with Firefox or at least not the drop down menus on the…
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Power, Sex, Suicide the meaning of life…..
Tonight after the fireworks I took myself off to a biosoc talk by Dr Nick Lane , with the very provocative title of Power, Sex, Suicide: the title of his latest book.The small print Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life was a better description. The first part was way way over my head and I…
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2007-11-05
at midsummer common firework display with the rest of Cambridge !-) # at midsummer common firework display with the rest of Cambridge !-) # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2007-11-04
a twitter for sally on gmail now # will be leaving to go to Ellee’s for a walk very soon… decided to drive not to walk # at last out walking with http://sallyinnorfolk.com and http://elleeseymour.com across the fens to Ely # walking back to Stretham in gorgeous sunset after tea and scones at The Almonry…
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2007-11-03
Old American sign for sale in Cambridge "Eat here and get gas" # Sally Caroline and Ray now in sauna at basecamp…. # I see Sally’s evening has ended 🙁 # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2007-11-02
Cool that Sally is 6 out of 47,700,00 sally’s on google # back from lunch at Les Gros Francks thinking about doing a todaysspecials.com # Next Leopard problem is that drop down form elements in Firefox don’t work 🙁 # Now the scroll button has packed up on the iMac after 2 months 🙁 back…
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Clone town Britain
As an aside to my previous post about mapping the world. Here is a slightly different slant:- Home Town or Clone Town? “The Clone Town Britain Survey II is designed to determine whether your town has be- come a Clone Town increasingly indistinguishable from dozens of others around the country; or whether it survives as…
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Free those maps
Last night I was up in London to listen to Steve Coast’s 36th talk on the Open street Map project he created (slide show is on slideshare). This is the Wikipedia of the map world. Currently 15,000 people around the world are using their GPS systems to upload tracks and create maps. The aim of…