Month: January 2008
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-30
The difference a degree makes – raining rather snowing in Les Gets 🙁 # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Sharing the good life….
Just thought I would share with all (8) readers my google reader statistics:- As you can see I’m averaging about 1500 new posts a working day down to around 600 a day at the weekends. I’ve been reading more consistently here in Les Gets as there seem to be fewer distractions, I can only hack…
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-29
Reading: "Jeremy Zawodny’s blog" (http://tinyurl.com/2kngtp) # Reading: "The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard" (http://tinyurl.com/ywzbqt) # Good day boarding 4000m descent and 60km total travel. Now to watch more Father Ted with George 🙂 # O2 upgrading my iPhone contract to 600mins and 500 texts per month from mid-march at no extra cost 35quid a…
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My Local MP in action…
So this is what we pay our MP’s to do:- David Howarth (Cambridge, Liberal Democrat) Link to this | Hansard source On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I am having some difficulty understanding how motion No. 1 on today’s Order Paper can be in order. It appears to have been made under Standing Order…
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Bear on a mountain..
There seems to be some rum goings on here in Les Gets with the lift company and local politics. One of my favourite lifts, Grande Ourse (Big Bear or Plough constellation), is out of action on Mont Chery. This two seater chair lift is ideal for both the snowboard park and the only blue run,…
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-28
Reading: "Shareaholic – The browser add-on extension to share, bookmark and e-mail web pages quickly" (http://tinyurl.com/33q9lo) # Reading: "Web Hot or not?" (http://tinyurl.com/2rld6e) # Reading: "Burning our money: Do You Want Fries With That?" (http://tinyurl.com/2o3yyk) # DocSearls Blogging is more like watering plants. Ya gotta do it often enough that they don’t die, but not…
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This mornings webfinds
A couple of good sites cropped up in my google reader this morning. Share a holic Shareaholic is a firefox extension that makes it easy to see if the website you are on has been social bookmarked eg Digg and more importantly for me makes it easy to twitter to your friends about the site.…
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-27
Brilliant short video here on story of stuff http://www.storyofstuff.com/ or how in USA only 1% of stuff is still with you after 6 months. # @emjo He just popped up in my reader 🙂 Can’t wait to sample your cooking! # @gapingvoid Never thought of you as a climber or boulderer Hugh? # Powered by…
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Geoff’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-26
Just signed up to Yabb.com to discover that Euan has been there for 2 months. Not clear to me what it can be used for with Skype 🙁 # Powered by Twitter Tools.
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Les Gets header
Managed to get around to uploading a new header today 🙂 . George took the photo using my Olympus SP-560UZ camera (A Christmas present from Sally). I know it looks photoshopped but its the actual image from the camera just resized to 940 pixels wide (from 3264 wide). The photo was taken on Mont Chery…