Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life
The journal
Tonight after the fireworks I took myself off to a biosoc talk by Dr Nick Lane , with the very provocative title of Power, Sex, Suicide: the title of his latest book.The small print Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life was a better description. The first part was way way over my head and I […]
at midsummer common firework display with the rest of Cambridge !-) # at midsummer common firework display with the rest of Cambridge !-) # Powered by Twitter Tools.
a twitter for sally on gmail now # will be leaving to go to Ellee’s for a walk very soon… decided to drive not to walk # at last out walking with http://sallyinnorfolk.com and http://elleeseymour.com across the fens to Ely # walking back to Stretham in gorgeous sunset after tea and scones at The Almonry […]
Old American sign for sale in Cambridge "Eat here and get gas" # Sally Caroline and Ray now in sauna at basecamp…. # I see Sally’s evening has ended 🙁 # Powered by Twitter Tools.
Cool that Sally is 6 out of 47,700,00 sally’s on google # back from lunch at Les Gros Francks thinking about doing a todaysspecials.com # Next Leopard problem is that drop down form elements in Firefox don’t work 🙁 # Now the scroll button has packed up on the iMac after 2 months 🙁 back […]
As an aside to my previous post about mapping the world. Here is a slightly different slant:- Home Town or Clone Town? “The Clone Town Britain Survey II is designed to determine whether your town has be- come a Clone Town increasingly indistinguishable from dozens of others around the country; or whether it survives as […]
Last night I was up in London to listen to Steve Coast’s 36th talk on the Open street Map project he created (slide show is on slideshare). This is the Wikipedia of the map world. Currently 15,000 people around the world are using their GPS systems to upload tracks and create maps. The aim of […]
I upgraded my 24″ iMac to Leopard (OSX10.5) all went smoothly. Except for my brand new Lexmark X4580 printer/scanner/reader. The printer refuses to print and even worse crashes the programme that is sending the print. Looking up in Google I found the Apple users forums where another user was having similar problems. Emails to Lexmark […]
After 2 years of procrastination I have finally transferred this site over to WordPress . My first WordPress site was for the Our Social World conference in September 2005, which I think is just about when WP was released to the public. Since then I have set up quite a few WP blogs for friends. […]
I have now imported all the posts created in the past few years created using blogger . These were ftp’d to my site hosted by domain direct. I couldn’t do it the import direct from my old site, so I republished the 697 posts onto a blogger hosted site and then imported them to this […]