Monthly Archives: September 2009

Walking in Les Gets

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Here is today’s little 11 mile walk around Les Gets where my apartment is. We walked around the main skiing area of the Chavannes with a steep climb upto Tete du Vuargne above the Ranfoilly lift at  1825metres.
Interestingly there is a major project of adding more snow cannons underway on the Nanchetts runs and on the Chavannes.
The new Everytrail is quite smart but it needs better Twitter integration. Here is the walk and pictures.

Les Gets circular walk Ranfoilly

Widget powered by EveryTrail: Geotagging Community

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Do you carry any clout?

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Klout a service for seeing how influential you are on Twitter makes me a connector with a score of 18.21 @Euan scores a 63.61 making him a Persona (Someone who has built a personal brand around their identity.) up there with Stephen Fry and Ben Goldacre

Klout – Twitter Analytics – Influence Summary for Geoff (GeoffJones)

Overall seems about right,maybe this is what Scoble was looking for in theTitter suggested user list?

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Stiles and Gates on Offa’s Dyke

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Finally managed to correctly geotag all the 744 images I took of the stiles and gates on The Offa’s Dyke Walk, A few stiles are missing from near Prestatyn (before the idea came to me) and some gates in the early stages are also missing, when I was undecided as to whether they should be included,. Overall stiles are becoming an endangered species due to Health and Safety issues etc.

Here is the slide show, from North to South:-

The video is here:-

Movies

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Offa’s Dyke 1 week into the walk

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Exactly one week ago I set of walking Offa’s Dyke on the English / Welsh border. I’ve been blessed with good weather so today I find myself in Hay on Wye with 139 miles walked, according my GPS and another 50.5 to do according to the Harvey Map I’m using.

The scenery is magnificent heavily wooded lush valleys interspersed with moorlands. To keep me amused I’ve been photographing every stile and gate on the trip some 700 or so I guess. When i get in front of my iMac i’m hoping to make them into a 2 minute video to play on YouTube.

In the meantime all the photographs cn be found on my Picasa account:-
Monday 14th September Prestatyn to Bodfan
Tuesday 15th September Bodfan to Llandegla
Wednesday 16th September Llandegla to Pentre
Thursday 17th September Pentre to LLanymynech
Friday 18th September  LLanymynech to Montgomery
Saturday 19th September Montgomery to Knighton
Sunday 20th September Knighton to Newchurch
Monday 21st September Newchurch to Hay on Wye

Appalling upload speeds here so will update links later.

Only one big grumble on the trip nd that is O2s appalling coverage of the area, I ld love to see the iPhone sales statistics broken down by postcode – their must be huge b lack holes in the country!

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Offas Dyke Path

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Today finds me waking up in Cloud Hill, a late 60s architect designed house, lots of plywood beams and clean open spaces.

I’ve now walked 76km of the 282km path and had my leg over 100 stiles. So far from Prestatyn it’s been very hilly but today’s walk from south of Llangollen to Four Crosses looks slightly easier :-)

Managed to lose the neoprene surround from the GPS yesterday so now have to operate it with a cotton bud!

Time for brekkie now….

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Twitter TOS

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Today its Twitter’s turn to modify their Terms of Service . Much shorter than the iTunes agreement at 1624 words (11242 )although the lawyers once again love their long sentences 73 words (99) with the number of sentences at 1/10th that of iTunes. 

Here is the Textalyser data.

Total word count : 1624
Number of different words : 664
Complexity factor (Lexical Density) : 40.9%
Readability (Gunning-Fog Index) : (6-easy 20-hard) 13.7
Total number of characters : 17746
Number of characters without spaces : 11120
Average Syllables per Word : 1.84
Sentence count : 113
Average sentence length (words) : 25.6
Max sentence length (words) : 73
( we also reserve the right to access read preserve and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary to i satisfy any applicable law regulation legal process or governmental request ii enforce the terms including investigation of potential violations hereof iii detect prevent or otherwise address fraud security or technical issues iv respond to user support requests or v protect the rights property or safety of twitter its users and the public)
Min sentence length (words) : 1
( attn)
Readability (Alternative) beta : (100-easy 20-hard, optimal 60-70) 25.5

and the Wordle

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iTunes agreement

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Having just upgraded my iPhone software to 3.1. I was suddenly confronted with the monster 69 iphone pages of contract before I could access Itunes. Just for fun I analysed it in Textalyser and Wordle. Here are the results:-

Total word count : 11242
Number of different words : 1530
Complexity factor (Lexical Density) : 13.6%
Readability (Gunning-Fog Index) : (6-easy 20-hard) 10.2
Total number of characters : 117476
Number of characters without spaces : 74036
Average Syllables per Word : 1.85
Sentence count : 1143
Average sentence length (words) : 18.15
Max sentence length (words) : 99
( you agree that itunes has the right without liability to you to disclose any registration data and or account information to law enforcement authorities government officials and or a third party as itunes believes is reasonably necessary or appropriate to enforce and or verify compliance with any part of this agreement including but not limited to itunes\ right to cooperate with any legal process relating to your use of the service and or products and or a third party claim that your use of the service and or products is unlawful and or infringes such third party\ s rights )
Min sentence length (words) : 1
(r)
Readability (Alternative) beta : (100-easy 20-hard, optimal 60-70) 32.3

Just love that sentence with 99 words! and also that Itunes is mentioned 479 times out of the 11,242 words that Apple lawyers deem I should read and understand before pressing the Agree button.

Here is the rather pretty Wordle of the contract:-

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Planning…

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Busily planning my next little hiking trip, which has to take less than two weeks, so I can be back to take Emily of to Sussex to start her three years of partying :-) Sorry, university!

Here is the elevation plot of the proposed trip taking using memory map:-

Pretty bumpy, should be interesting, More to follow…..

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Stats about me on Facebook

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According to the natty programme developed by Stats about me. My Facebook profile shows:-

“You have 124 friends, 4 more than average. 61% are male, 39% are female. 11 are single, 54 are dating or married. If you contracted a deadly variant of flu, you would likely infect 9 people, 1 of whom would die. If you died today, an estimated 362 people would try to attend your funeral. Based on your Facebook profile, you have a 89% probability of getting married. You are likely to earn US$1.8 million and have 2.1 children over your lifetime. “

Looks like I have overshot the mark having 3 kids :-) and I find it hard to believe that 362 people would TRY and come to my funeral, more like half a dozen I would think!

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