Month: January 2009
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My followers on Twitter
Thanks to @sciencebase – Want to see all your twitter followers’ mugshots on a single page? http://bit.ly/tweeps (Use your username instead of mine, obv.) RT @berci about 1 hour ago from web Here are my twitter followers:
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Something for Sally
I think Sally is going to need one of these soon:-
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George arrives in Les Gets
My friend George, his son Graham and friend Ian, arrived somewhat earlier than anticipated at 3.30am this morning 🙁 I met George when I was working at the Renishaw Iron Works in 1962. He was the assistant instructor to the redoubtable Fred Smith on the Duke of Edinburgh’s award scheme operated out of Parkgate Steel…
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Les Gets powder day
After yesterdays total wash out (Although I did spend the day transferring blogs to my account at webfaction and learning about host files in windows, including using the rather cool HostsMan programme). It was great to wake up to a massive dump of snow (which killed the apartments power from 3am to 8am). Thierry reassured…
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Eating in or out?
Spurred by reading this on CNET “he heard Google’s Marissa Mayer whisper that in these times of infinite woe, more people were googling “recipes” than “restaurants.” I thought I would give it a try using Google Trends, and for the UK it seems correct:- As you can see there a been a definite reduction for…
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Boarding in Les Gets
Today has been glorious here in Les Gets, bright sunshine helping to offset the -8 degrees temperatures. I took my board out for a 28mile ride going up 13 lifts totalling about 3 vertical miles of ascent 🙂 Top speed recorded on the GPS was 34.7mph. I felt really comfortable motoring along, either I’m getting…
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Back on the Les Gets slopes
Today I managed to get my first 2009 ride on the slopes of Mont Chery. I had to stop for my coffee at the La Grand Ourse restaurant to say Hi to Gary and Theresa. They reported that last week was the first time that the whole Les Gets lift system was running at full…
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Spam and overnight success
After reading the excellent post “Overnight success takes a long time” by Paul Buchheit on the history of gmail it stirred my memory into why I use gmail. The answer is this prominent button: Before gmail came along. Spam was a real problem for me, as you can see from the last 10 MINUTES worth…
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Cambridge -Anglesey abbey circular walk
Today’s walk was a 17 or so mile circular tour from Cambridge along the tow path to Baits Bite lock and then across to Horningsea. We then ventured across Quy Fen to Anglesey Abbey to see the Himalayan Siver Birch trees resplendent with their jet washed bark 🙂 We returned alongside the lovely mill stream…
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Twitter facts
Interesting wordle of all my twitters, compiled at tweetstats, over the past 26 months at the rate of 3.9 tweets per day 🙂 Thanks to Sally for the heads up! Powered by ScribeFire.