Month: June 2008
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Quintessential England on The Scholars’ Way
I have now finished the first walk designed by myself, although obviously others have trod a similar path in the past to get to the University of Cambridge 🙂 My requirements were to walk from Cambridge to Oxford keeping as straight a line as possible and avoiding all roads. Once I started mapping using Memory…
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Novel CV layout
Here is a rather beautiful rendition of my Resume page, made by Wordle: Powered by ScribeFire.
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Steve deleting Nick Jones!
Why is Steve Jobs wanting to delete Nick Jones from his contacts! Pretty good that at last iphone is getting a search contacts operation “The first one: contact search. Type in a few chars, instantly find who you’re looking for” Stuff taken from Engadget website Powered by ScribeFire.
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Three strikes and you are in….
Fred did an interesting post on Zemanta “One of my favorite VC quotes comes from Bill Kaiser of Greylock. He once said, “when I hear about a company once, I often ignore it, when I hear about it twice, I pay attention, when I hear about it for the third time, I take a meeting”….…
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Sally has arrived!
Yummy muffins 🙂
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Tale of two bridges..
Today was the official opening of the £3million pound Riverside Bridge in Cambridge, Partially funded by Tesco through a s106 agreement on its Newmarket Road store (All we know is that £1.7million came from 3rd party sources). Isn’t it crazy that the exact amounts are not easily publicly available and that it seems council policy…
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Linking to Duofertility
Received an email from Shamus at Duofertility (Warning! I’m the smallest shareholder in their parent company Cambridge Temperature Concepts) saying how well they are getting on with the UK national press with mentions in the Daily Mail and The Telegraph. However, as I mentioned at the recent AGM what counts for an online marketing company…
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No Problem in Ely
A great day walking in the Ely area today with Sally, amazing we rattled of 16 miles without a thought 🙂 Ely Area Circular Walk – Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging The highlight was meeting up with Vic & Sue from “Retirement with No Problem”. I have been following there travels around the English…
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Talking about obesity..
What a great place to live is Cambridge. I’ve just upgraded my list of talks that I can go to in The University, where else in the country do you get such a proliferation on Nobel Laureates, Fellows of the Royal Society etc giving such talks in delightful surroundings. Last night’s was in the tardis…