The journal

Year: 2009

Stephen Fry goes nuclear.

Followcost is a great little application which works out the cost of following celebrities on Twitter. Here is the cost of following @stephenfry It strikes me that celebrities are caught in a cleft stick, someone as popular as Stephen Fry has over 208,000 followers(The old Radio Luxenbourg radio frequency for us nerds 🙂 and is […]

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Subsidies in action

From blogoir I discovered this cool site trying to throw light on EU farm & agricultural subsidies. For instance in the UK the average direct aid per farm worker is €9,236 and each hectare of farm land gets €210. Huge companies also have their snout in the trough e.g.  Tate & Lyle Europe receives an […]

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School work

Whilst in one of my attics, trying to sort out why the shower drain isn’t working. I came across the ironing board that I made at school when I was 13 or 14. Since it was combined woodwork/metalwork  I had to make the bracket as well!  Interestingly my mum used it until she died, giving […]

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Muddy Boot day

After my hectic night with Sally (see her posts here and here) plus stopping to take a snapshot of  one of the three police cars wrecked on Regent Street we didn’t make it back home till 1am ish. Then today was up and away to be at Cambridge Rambling Clubs ‘A’ walk led by Carolyn […]

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Motowhere |

via obliquepanic.no-ip.com Looks a great way of finding the quickest way between to points on a map. Not so good for walkers but for the guys with IC engines, probably good! Posted via web from Geoff’s posterous

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