Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life
The journal
After finalising my 10kg of packing it was a pleasant day of travelling on trains & a bus I arrived at Minehead in the late afternoon. I’m staying at The Quay Inn, enjoying it’s free WiFi. The South West Coast Way starting sculpture is about 50 metres away and my room overlooks the sea, all […]
Tomorrow should see me venturing of to try and walk the 630 miles (1008Km) and apparently 114931 ft (35031 m) of vertical height on the South West Coast Path. So should be interesting especially in the foul weather at the moment. To honour the occasion I’ve purchased yet another pair of Scarpa Terra GTX boots, about […]
Sally bought me a Oregon WMR88 weather station with anemometer, wind direction, outside temperature and rainfall gauges. I’ve finally have it working with the Asus Eee running XP Pro in its 8GB of memory and uploading the data through my WiFi to Wunderground. Giving the lovely chart above. Next job is to mount the anemometer onto the […]
After last night’s epic (by Cambridge standards) 4″ of snow. The Cambridge Rambling Club A group walk around Histon was cancelled so Sally & I met up with Jill at the usual starting place in Harvey Road and concocted our own walk up to Coton (where we bumped into the B group) then across to Grantchester for […]
Having just read or skimmed Mark Zuckerberg’s letter in the regulatory filing to make Facebook a public company. I thought it would be fun to do a Wordle on his public letter about Facebook. here it is. Just love our the word People (41 mentions) stands out! In fact the words in numerical order, from […]
Here’s a bit of a review of Sleepcycle, Fitbit & Zeo as ways of monitoring your sleep activity. It has to be said at the outset that I have never suffered from a problem with falling asleep or staying asleep 🙂 My only problems are my nocturnal ramblings to take a pee due to my […]
Nope, I’m not talking about borrowing money to pay of credit card debts. I’m talking about The Fitbit 🙂 and balancing the amount of calories you eat against the calories you burn through exercise. The Fitbit rates your exercise levels into 4 levels, sedentary, lightly, fairly & very active. Very active is shown as red […]
Here is the guy clearing the entrance to my apartment in Les Gets this morning. Oh how I would love to have such a machine 🙂 High winds prevented access to the Northern slopes of Mont Chéry today, so hopefully lots of new runs there tomorrow. Here is the scene at the mid station today: […]
Oh dear it has been officially noted that I’m been very lazy. Just received this from Amazon:- We noticed your blog (listed below) has not updated for more than 30 days. Kindle customers expect to receive frequent updates for blogs and news feeds to which they subscribe. Because blogs should update at least once per […]
