Month: November 2009
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BT broadband gets a B grade like me!
Here’s a new test of your internet connection that measures things like packet loss, ping times and jitter. My BT connection gets a B grade, a bit like me at secondary modern school!
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Rambling around Barley
Today’s weather was as beautiful as it was foul on our last ramble with the Cambridge Rambling Club. Carolin ably led us on a beautiful 14mile walk around the undulating countryside of Barley. Still some fruit on the trees although well past its sell by date, but showing just how rich we are that we…
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Not mobile friendly 🙁
Not good news at all from the W3C mobile checker:- Better news on the house front, A famous poet & author is really interested, better get her autograph as apparently she translated Isla’s favourite Moomin book.
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My Twitter 3rd anniversary
To celebrate three years of @geoffjones on Twitter here is a Wordle of my Tweets:- and here are my statistics from Tweetstats:- So I have been twittering about 5 times a day, mainly from their website although lately I’ve taken to reading mostly on Tweetie. Its good to see that companies like BT are using…
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Scarpa Boots water tests
After the recent walk where my Scarpa ZG65 XCR boots let me down by leaking, after a morning walking in heavy rain. I returned them to Open Air who agreed they were faulty and supplied me free of charge with a new pair. I thought I would be smart and test the new boots before…
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Primark in Cambridge
The Cambridge Primark opens tomorrow in Burleigh Street (the revamped John Lewis building ). To promote the opening of Primark they used today ten walking billboards as part of a targeted marketing campaign from Look Media UK. I thought it was highly effective and looked rather cool. From Primark in Cambridge Here is a little…
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Rougham Circular walk
Yesterdays walk with the Cambridge Rambling Club was a good test for our foul weather gear, mine failed abysmally 🙁 We 11 started from St Mary’s Church car park at Rougham, in very wet and windy conditions, so it was heads down for the first 9 miles to Bradfield St Clare and a spot of…