{"id":2741,"date":"2011-01-08T22:32:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T21:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjones.com\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2011-01-08T22:32:25","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T21:32:25","slug":"les-gets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"Les Gets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4419.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2740\" title=\"Les Gets Ice Skating\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/IMG_4419-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>An experiment to see if I can upload a picture direct from my Picasa to this wordpress blog.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see it worked using <a href=\"http:\/\/profiles.wordpress.org\/users\/draca\/\">dracas<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/picasa-album-uploader\/\">Picasa album uploader<\/a> the picture is of the outside Ice skating rink in Les Gets central square.<\/p>\n<p>It first refused to instal the button in Picasa. in the end I closed Picasa down and then clicked the link in the plug in! That seemed to work fine.<\/p>\n<p>After a brilliant start to the season, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagrandeourse.eu\/\">La Grand Ourse<\/a> having a spectacular New Years Eve party &amp; mega dinner (\u20ac100 a head ) on top of Mont Chery (lifts provided in their adapted piste basher) folks are now getting worried with the warm temperatures and rain. Lets hope it cools down a bit quickly!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/5110NTEBtmL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"160\" \/> Just finished reading about Mark Zuckerberg in &#8220;the Facebook effect&#8221; such incredible \u00a0talent and still so young. Pretty impressive that the author David Kirkpatrick was given such access to the leading guys and investors. I bet the guy who sold them the Facebook domain name wished he had taken the stock option he was offered when they changed from thefacebook.com .<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also spent a bit of time creating a new website for our good friend Kay who has just qualified as a Celebrant!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Les-Gets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2742\" title=\"Les Gets\" src=\"https:\/\/geoffjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Les-Gets-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve also fitted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.currentcost.com\/\">current cost<\/a> meter and bridge onto the apartments electric supply so that I can monitor electric usage and internal temperature from anywhere in the world \ud83d\ude42 If you have a gmail account and want to see the readings please leave a comment and I will send you a link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An experiment to see if I can upload a picture direct from my Picasa to this wordpress blog. As you can see it worked using dracas Picasa album uploader the picture is of the outside Ice skating rink in Les Gets central square. It first refused to instal the button in Picasa. in the end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-les-gets","category-products"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}