Month: August 2008

  • iPhone simple If found screen

    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…

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  • The little eager stream

    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…

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  • Geoff potential guests being led astray.

    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…

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  • Big heads and family history

    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…

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  • Twitter beaching the whale

    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…

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  • My relationship with Google..

    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…

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  • End of Time -2

    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!

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  • Test post from Bleezer

    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…

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  • Hell of a walk

    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…

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  • Flickr

    This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

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