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The journal
Another day another new iPhone application. Today it was EveryTrail. In the past I used my Garmin Etrex as a GPS and a regular camera, by fiddling with LoadMyTracks, HoudahGeo and Flickr I managed to upload my walks to Everytrail. Today it all changed 🙂 Here is my test walk around Cambridge with the iPhone:- […]
I originally discovered Steve Pavlina‘s blog when searching for public speaking, several years ago using Google. His blog led me to Toastmasters which I then discovered met in a hotel literally 100 yards from where I live in the UK!. Since then I have followed his experiments with great interest using his blog as a […]
Vera from the Cambridge Rambling Club organised an excellent ‘A’ rated walk on Sunday for 13 of us keen ramblers, A 15 mile circular trip from Grantchester to Toft. Sally and I added on a 5mile trip to get there from Cambridge! Here is the route with photos:- Cambridge Ramblers – Toft Walk Widget powered […]
Just under a year ago I posted up to YouTube some of my Uncle Kens (He married my fathers younger sister, Helen) old cine films which we had converted to video. The film that he took in around 1969 showing the demolition of Nottingham Victoria station, which he shot from his offices, has now had […]
Great day fixing sheds and blackberry picking in Norfolk. I loved this cloudscape with its foreboding of a storm and the lightning scarred Oak tree silhouletted by the dark clouds. Taken with my iPhone as well 🙂
I created myself a simple & neat ‘if found’ or ICE (In case of emergency) front screen on the iphone. I used a regular photo which I over printed with my details using Skitch. I then uploaded it to the iphone by creating an album for the image which I synchronized . Once on the […]
The little eager stream Originally uploaded by geofones Sally and I passed this little bridge on the way home from seeing cloudgazer. It immediately reminded me of my Uncle Les’s humanist funeral. Where his eulogy made reference to life being like a stream. Starting out as a tiny spring then playfully growing into a larger […]
I get an enormous number of 404 errors on this site (269 in last 10 hours), they stem mainly from when I migrated the old blogger posts to wordpress. On blogger the post url’s ended with .html when I transferred them to WordPress the .html was stripped off 🙁 So now if you click on […]
One of the curses of my life is being born with a big head, I need a size 60 or 73⁄8 hat and buying glasses is a nightmare requiring an extended temple length. Today I discovered the real meaning of ‘pollard’ according to ancestry.com. Pollard is a “nickname for a person with a large or […]
Very bad news from Twitter,. Twitters USP here in the UK was the ability to send & receive tweets by SMS (Text messaging) as of today, with no warning whatsoever, they have cut of receiving updates here in the UK by text. Their so called UK number, actually its a number based in the Isle […]