Month: November 2008
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Glasnost
In the best spirit of Anglo / Russian co-operation. Here I am holding Colin and Maria’s one month old baby ДАНИЛКА. (that’s Danilka or Daniel in English). Maria is a Russian born tennis coach who teaches at the David Lloyd tennis centre and was one of my lodgers a few years ago. Colin was one…
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Chance or Fate
Having attended many talks about chance and randomness it is still amazing when certain chance events occur. When Sally and I were walking the Camino Via de la Plata from Seville a few weeks ago we bumped into two German lads, Manuel & Michael. Manuel was walking all the way to Santiago and in fact…
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Computing the future
Interesting talk by Andy Hopper tonight on Computing the future. I especially liked his comments on setting projects for his PhD students. they have to be more advanced than what Google or Microsoft are doing but not totally science fiction stuff – A hard job these days I reckon. Other interesting points was that 2-3%…
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Ascent and Everytrail
After my post bemoaning the fact that the only way I had of importing trails from the Garmin Legend HCx on the iMac was through using Parallels and the Garmin software (PC only!). Euan pointed me in the direction of Ascent for the iMac which can take in data from the Garmin and is Mac…
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Santon Downham walk
Today’s 13.3mile walk was with the Southern Norfolk walkers group. The 61st event led by Paul! Twenty of us joined him on this event. The weather stayed dry but overcast. Santon Downham Walk Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging To import the trail I tried using the Ascent software as suggested by Euan, However, I…