Month: September 2009
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Walking in Les Gets
Here is today’s little 11 mile walk around Les Gets where my apartment is. We walked around the main skiing area of the Chavannes with a steep climb upto Tete du Vuargne above the Ranfoilly lift at 1825metres. Interestingly there is a major project of adding more snow cannons underway on the Nanchetts runs and…
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Do you carry any clout?
Klout a service for seeing how influential you are on Twitter makes me a connector with a score of 18.21 @Euan scores a 63.61 making him a Persona (Someone who has built a personal brand around their identity.) up there with Stephen Fry and Ben Goldacre Klout – Twitter Analytics – Influence Summary for Geoff…
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Stiles and Gates on Offa’s Dyke
Finally managed to correctly geotag all the 744 images I took off the stiles and gates on The Offa’s Dyke Walk, A few stiles are missing from near Prestatyn (before the idea came to me) and some gates in the early stages are also missing, when I was undecided as to whether they should be…
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Offa’s Dyke 1 week into the walk
Exactly one week ago I set of walking Offa’s Dyke on the English / Welsh border. I’ve been blessed with good weather so today I find myself in Hay on Wye with 139 miles walked, according my GPS and another 50.5 to do according to the Harvey Map I’m using. The scenery is magnificent heavily…
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Offas Dyke Path
Today finds me waking up in Cloud Hill, a late 60s architect designed house, lots of plywood beams and clean open spaces. I’ve now walked 76km of the 282km path and had my leg over 100 stiles. So far from Prestatyn it’s been very hilly but today’s walk from south of Llangollen to Four Crosses…
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Twitter TOS
Today its Twitter’s turn to modify their Terms of Service . Much shorter than the iTunes agreement at 1624 words (11242 )although the lawyers once again love their long sentences 73 words (99) with the number of sentences at 1/10th that of iTunes. Here is the Textalyser data. Total word count : 1624 Number of…
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iTunes agreement
Having just upgraded my iPhone software to 3.1. I was suddenly confronted with the monster 69 iphone pages of contract before I could access Itunes. Just for fun I analysed it in Textalyser and Wordle. Here are the results:- Total word count : 11242 Number of different words : 1530 Complexity factor (Lexical Density) :…
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Planning…
Busily planning my next little hiking trip, which has to take less than two weeks, so I can be back to take Emily of to Sussex to start her three years of partying 🙂 Sorry, university! Here is the elevation plot of the proposed trip taking using memory map:- Pretty bumpy, should be interesting, More…
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Stats about me on Facebook
According to the natty programme developed by Stats about me. My Facebook profile shows:-“You have 124 friends, 4 more than average. 61% are male, 39% are female. 11 are single, 54 are dating or married. If you contracted a deadly variant of flu, you would likely infect 9 people, 1 of whom would die. If…