Month: March 2009
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The travellers computer
I finally managed to get my bargain 4GB Asus701 Eee to run with XP professional and for there to be still about 1GB of spare space after installing all my must have programmes for travelling and suffering the SP3 upgrade. Various points of hard earned wisdom are:- Use nLite to shrink your XP but be…
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Cumbrian Way and Everytrail
Finally, one week later, I can publish our trail and photographs for our Cumbrian Way weekend. Sally and I are both quite proud that we managed over 60 miles and 8400ft of ascent in three days walking. The weather was in our favour being cool and sunny most of the time. The reason for the…
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Accidental successes
Some clips from Jeff Jarvis which I totally agree with. Twitter“On celebrity, Marwick says that it is a one-to-many relationship. Celebrity is having followers. Aha, so that makes Twitter a machine that makes us all celebrities, no? Everybody’s famous to 15 followers.” Flickr“When the photo service Flickr started, its husband-and-wife founders, Caterina Fake and Stewart…
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Ickworth figure of eight walk
Today’s Cambridge Rambling Clubs “A” team walk should have been led by Larry unfortunately he was indisposed so Jill took over at the last minute, hence the couple of blips on the GPS trail! The walk was designed as a figure of eight with Ickworth Hall in the centre, acting as a rendezvous point for…
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Getting air in Les Gets
Les Gets is having plenty of snow this year :-). Here is a snapshot of the webcam in the centre of the village, looks like they have set up a snowboard park in the village square with some guy just getting air on his board! You can see my apartment on the webcam as well,…
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Ryobi IR thermometer instructions
A post for posterity, in case I loose the instruction manual for my Ryobi IR Thermometer Model SW-638E, a Christmas present from Sally. It can measure temperatures of -20 to +315 degrees Celsius However, for the lower temperatures it can take 10-15minutes to adjust. For best accuracy the objects have to be under 2 feet…
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Cambridge Rambling Club – Waterbeach to Lode
Today’s Cambridge Rambling Clubs ‘A’ team walk was led by Rita. Nine of us set off from Waterbeach village green heading for Anglesey abbey via Lode. At last its warming up and the ground is drying out with a few buds beginning to form on the hedgerows. Vast hordes of people had descended on Anglesey…