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The journal
Decided to look at my Google web history. Here are the sad graphs of my life with Google:- It says my total number of Google searches is 12,418 with its first entry in March 2006 (14 searches a day on average). Interesting to see the winter peaks and Summer lows. I like the peaks at […]
Just signed up for the new Yahoo location service, FireEagle. They reassuringly sent me this message: So I will get two days notice to put my affairs in order and my time is up!
One of the items shared by Scoble in my Google reader, was this post from RB on “15 Desktop blogging tools reviewed” The new one for me was Bleezer which is available for all operating systems and even better its free 🙂 It seemed a breeze or should it be bleeze to set up. Lets […]
One of my ambitions since getting my apartment in Les Gets has been to snow shoe walk up and board down the impressive Roc d’Enfer (2200m) which you can see from the top of my favourite hill, Mont Chery. Last week with Sally and Ray we explored Roc d’Enfer (nb. Enfer is the French word […]
Geoff on Thierry’s laid back bike Originally uploaded by geofones How cool is this bike? really nice laid back position. Thanks to Thierry at Nevada Sports in Les Gets – Number 1 for bike hire in Les Gets 🙂
Mia wanted some help with her English to Finnish film translation work. Em suggested the use of Urban Dictionary which is really very good especially for finding out current meaning of your name, we discovered that bingham is a fat lady not the place in Nottingham where my sister lived 😉 She also rather liked […]
Just trying out writing a post using the new free WordPress application on the iPhone. Seems very neat so far. Crashed when trying to add a picture and posted multiple blank posts 🙁 Now trying with no pictures!
Cheffins held a property auction in Cambridge yesterday (which i missed 🙁 ). This fine 3 bed semi in Lovell Road CB4 2QW was predicted, prior to the auction, to make £180K to £200K in fact it didn’t reach £118K . Oops it made £179,500 Only 8 of the 15 lots were sold at the […]
Sally (who did this excellent post about the walk) and I recently walked the Sheeps Head Trail which starts and ends in Bantry, Cork, Ireland. We did the walk in a anti-clockwise fashion, as the numbered 350+ guide posts indicate. We stayed the two nights we were on the peninsular in Kilchrohane. first night at […]