Month: October 2008
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What’s the point of Economics
What’s the point of Economics was tonight’s talk in the new Cambridge University Festival of Ideas series, a trioka of economists pontificated on the subject. Evan Davis was first on, causing a small cry of dissent from the packed lecture theatre when he suggested that somehow economists should be treated like seismologists that is seismologists…
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Rambling and geotagging
Another great short walk of 13miles , this time ably led by Chris of Newmarket Ramblers. Here is the track with photographs:- Newmarket Ramblers – Stetchworth Walk Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging For anyone interested I’m using the Garmin Etrex Legend HCx. Reading the track stored on the Garmins datacard by using its USB…
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UK Poker Ads on Google
Google ads for Poker – American viewers please look away 🙂 Powered by ScribeFire.
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Flash bangs the Cambridge way
Last nights lecture here in Cambridge was given by the redoubtable Peter Wothers, a superb talker & experimentalist, Its title was “Gods, Devils and Alcohol – Their Influence in Chemical Nomenclature” a sub title might be “With reference to shampoo ingredients accompanied with assorted explosions and fiery happenings”. The lecture theatre was totally packed, Peter…
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Apple screws it up.
In the beautifully illustrated tear down of the new MacBook at iFixit there is the discovery that the new MacBook contains an astounding 96 screws of which 56 hold down the keyboard. It must be an assemblers / BOM nightmare with 13 different types of screw mentioned in the break down. Plus it must add…
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Make your own Health and Safety signs.
Generate your own Health and safety signs at the adletters website, unlimited opportunities. Thanks to Doc Searls for the heads up 🙂 Powered by ScribeFire.
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The Google monopoly!
Just looking at my Google Analytic figures for the past 30 days:- Looks like Google has a bit of a monopoly to me! The real reason for looking at my analytics was to see if the link Steve Pavlina gave me has made any difference to my readership. Looks like about 160+ folks wandered over…
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Be careful what you wish for!
Last night I went to a couple of excellent talks here in Cambridge. The University talks are one of the big reasons for living in Cambridge, Here is my personal list of talks. Top notch speakers excellent bright youthful audiences and free drinks afterwards whilst chatting with the leading experts of the day. The first…
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iPhone external battery test run
Tomorrow is the big day for trialling my new external iPhone battery pack, that I recently purchased with the gift voucher that Euan gave me for loaning him my old iPhone 🙂 I will be at Be2Camp 2008 during the day and then, hopefully, meeting up with Annie Mole at the Photography.Book.Now London Meet-up in…