Archive for May, 2008

A hole in the Facebook fence.

VeganBob has come up with two excellent sites that help in linking FaceBook to the world outside its previous walled garden.
To extract calendar information like birthdays and events from Facebook use fbCal , you can then easily add the events to your regular calendars such as ical gcal etc
To get a neat URL to hand [...]

Carbon footprints and the Professor….

A bit more on my house’s carbon footprint. I buy my gas and electricity from e.on (was Powergen) they are now doing rather snazzy graphs from my energy bills and also calculations of actual CO2.
They have calculated in 2007 I generated 3.5 tonnes of CO2 and for 2008 it will be 4.6 tonnes (problem [...]

Todays browser tabs…

Tabs currently open in my browser:-
http://www.filtermyrss.com/index.php
Looks an interesting way of filtering an RSS feed
YouTube - Vista geral da Curve Brigde
Look away if you suffer agrophobia - a must see trip for me
deputydog | gephyrophobiacs: look away now
The most gorgeous bridge ever!
Users: Robert Scoble - Upcoming
This guy gets everywhere…
Musing about design and convenience
Loved [...]

Lawd I’m anally retentive :-(

Oh dear according to this:-

You Are in the Anal Stage of Development

According to Dr. Freud, you are stuck in the anal stage of development.
If your parents didn’t discipline you enough as a young child, you may be messy, reckless, and defiant.
If your parents disciplined you too severely as a young child, you may be uptight, [...]

Hip hip dismay

Today I had the house’s energy performance certificate done:-According to it I should be spending £205+£1704+£151= £2060 and if I spend a shed load of money it would get to £1743 per year. Well according to my records in the last 12 months I’ve spent £1152.42 So is the HIP worth having! Interestingly they [...]

Posting GPS trails and Images

I have become increasingly frustrated by the inability to easily add my photographs to my wikiloc walk traces and also the relative poor quality of the underlying maps that they use. So the search has been on for a system that easily combines my GPS traces with my Flickr photos and using preferably Google [...]

Making a splash..

Today at Noon was the official start to my swimming season here in Cambridge with the Jesus Green pool opening. The water was at a balmy 51°F a couple of degrees warmer than last year.

I managed 2 lengths (Sally did 4). Jordan, the reporter was there from the Cambridge News and he reckons our pictures [...]

Geoff The Entertainer!

Following up from my daughters profile:-

(Extraverted Sensing with Introverted Feeling) just about sums me up

Food lecture

Here is the plate of delicacies on offer at Dr Len Fisher lecture
tonight. I wonder what we will do with them.

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New plants

Just finished replanting the terrace and now experimenting with Nicks postie plugin.
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