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I managed to get invited to a OHM event at the Saatchi Industry Lab in London on 28th November 2007 where the keynote speaker was Douglas Hubbard, inventor of Applied Information Economics (AIE). Douglas spoke about How to measure anything (which is also the title of his book). These are my rough notes.. An investment […]
on train to London to meet Paul for lunch after our mkp weekend # on train back to Cambridge after interesting lunch learning about phrisk sugerstats and nikeplus need to get eatwatch for twitters done # just started using skitch.com – seems pretty cool- ideal for watermarking images, sketching and annotating. MAC only # Powered […]
Off to Aldi on this windy day # Just had call from daughter on floor below asking me to turn di.fm down – teenagers today! # Powered by Twitter Tools.
After looking at my 404 statistics and noticing the huge number of failed requests for a favicon.ico file I thought I should add one! I added the favicon (the little graphic before the URL in the bar at the top of the screen) to my site by:- Importing the desired picture into the favicon.cc site, […]
Jimmy Wales has just released his new open source search engine wikia, which he thinks will overtake google in the future. Although I’m sure Jason over at Mahalo would disagree. I did my vanity search geoff on it. In google I tend to be in the top 5 for geoff. On wikia I’m at:- So […]
After Em’s 18th birthday festivities we managed a late start for our first Cambridge walk of 2008 this morning in glorious sunshine. We set off (with no provisions rucksacs etc) along Grantchester meadows snapped a couple of fine pictures of the church, although the clock is working now 🙁 The Rupert Brook pub sign however, […]
Big night! Em’s 18th party at the local Indian and we get to meet Mark’s parents 🙂 🙂 # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Hate the way Yahoo take over stuff like mybloglog and then force you to use their stuff Grrrrrrr # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Awesome video of paper plane thrown from a 30 storey building. The plane flys for over 60 seconds with The Brooklyn Bridge as a back drop. Link from http://overstated.net/2008/01/04/epic-paper-airplane-flight Video at http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2008/01/01
Think I need to retire to the sauna to warm up a bit – Now have white fingers to match the iMac.. # @Sallyinnorfolk Its only got the background heating on from the central heating, so its about 30 degrees 🙂 # @martincoles Only 13 days before I’m in Les Gets for a whole month […]