Archive for June, 2008

Quintessential England on The Scholars’ Way

I have now finished the first walk designed by myself, although obviously others have trod a similar path in the past to get to the University of Cambridge
My requirements were to walk from Cambridge to Oxford keeping as straight a line as possible and avoiding all roads.
Once I started mapping using Memory Map, [...]

Novel CV layout

Here is a rather beautiful rendition of my Resume page, made by Wordle:

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markwall1977 a phisherman or not?

Here is a markwall1977 going phishing on MSN
Clicking on the link takes you to a lovely suspected web forgery Firefox warning:-

As you can see he is trying to get hold of your MSN login details….
Searching for him in google remarkably doesn’t reveal any of his nefarious activities, only that he his known on database forums;-

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Steve deleting Nick Jones!

Why is Steve Jobs wanting to delete Nick Jones from his contacts! Pretty good that at last iphone is getting a search contacts operation “The first one: contact search. Type in a few chars, instantly find who you’re looking for”
Stuff taken from Engadget website
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Three strikes and you are in….

Fred did an interesting post on Zemanta “One of my favorite VC quotes comes from Bill Kaiser of Greylock. He once said, “when I hear about a company once, I often ignore it, when I hear about it twice, I pay attention, when I hear about it for the third time, I take a meeting”…. [...]

Sally has arrived!

Yummy muffins

Swafham Bulbeck cycling bridge.

A good week for bridges here in Cambridge. Another new one, this time over Swaffham Bulbeck lode to make cycling to Wicken Fen easier. More details on the camcycle website.
Maybe on Sunday we can take a walk to Wicken over the new bridge.

Tale of two bridges..

Today was the official opening of the £3million pound Riverside Bridge in Cambridge, Partially funded by Tesco through a s106 agreement on its Newmarket Road store (All we know is that £1.7million came from 3rd party sources). Isn’t it crazy that the exact amounts are not easily publicly available and that it seems council policy [...]

Linking to Duofertility

Received an email from Shamus at Duofertility (Warning! I’m the smallest shareholder in their parent company Cambridge Temperature Concepts) saying how well they are getting on with the UK national press with mentions in the Daily Mail and The Telegraph.
However, as I mentioned at the recent AGM what counts for an online marketing company [...]

No Problem in Ely

A great day walking in the Ely area today with Sally, amazing we rattled of 16 miles without a thought

Ely Area Circular Walk - Widget powered by EveryTrail: GPS Geotagging
The highlight was meeting up with Vic & Sue from “Retirement with No Problem”.

I have been following there travels around the English waterways in their [...]