The journal

Year: 2008

1001 posts!

Welcome to my 1001 blog post, or so WordPress thinks! I started blogging in 2002, using Dave Winer‘s Radio software. This is a screenshot of the first posts that I can find:- Interesting about the post on the real inventor of the telephone. Tonights talk at Biosoc was given by Nick Franks which he started […]

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What a mess!

Here is the window dressing, last Saturday, at the main Boots store in Cambridge, Have you ever seen such a mess? Reminded me of Woolworths before they gave up the ghost, their old store is now a Next. I wonder what the Boots will become? Maybe Mr Tesco should take it on -given how busy […]

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Norfolk coastal erosion

Impressive image both for the accuracy of the Etrex/Ascent/HoudahGeo photo placement software and also showing the rate of coastal erosion over the past few years on the North Norfolk coast. Seems to be about 3feet from when the Google satellite images where taken! Powered by ScribeFire.

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The Property business

Having sold my old offices to Studio24 on Monday. I’m now looking at places to invest my gains ( Pretty low by the way , the property has roughly doubled in price over 20 years) although when fully let it was yielding 9%. I called up the Kings Street Housing Association. They offer a private […]

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Glasnost

In the best spirit of Anglo / Russian co-operation. Here I am holding Colin and Maria’s one month old baby ДАНИЛКА. (that’s Danilka or Daniel in English). Maria is a Russian born tennis coach who teaches at the David Lloyd tennis centre and was one of my lodgers a few years ago. Colin was one […]

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