Geoff on Jan 08 2010 | Filed under: Personal
With all the information that Google has about me you would think they would know better than this:-
Obviously they only take in the fact that my computer is sitting on a French network rather than my Google account which shows my address/bank details etc are in the UK. All stupid really when I could easily spoof the network address with a VPN.
So much for local intelligence.
Geoff on Jan 03 2010 | Filed under: Cambridge Rambling Club, Travel Blogging, Walks, travel blog
The A team were back in action today! Rita ably led the Cambridge Rambling Club on its first walk of 2010. A 14mile circular walk starting from Orwell then across the fields to Whaddon, Dyers Green and lunch at Wimpole Hall. In the afternoon we scaled the heights 
across to Eversden and on down the old Clunch Pit back into Orwell.
Unfortunately the GPS ran out of battery just before lunch so the overall length should be longer than the 13.4miles indicated! (Sally’s GPS said 14.3 miles)
A gorgeous cold and crisp sunny day.
Here are the pictures and trail:-
Geoff on Dec 27 2009 | Filed under: Cambridge Rambling Club, Personal, Travel Blogging, Walks, cambridge, travel blog
Todays little walk was with the B team of The Cambridge Rambling Club, ably led by John, we set of from Great Shelford and ventured across to Haslingfield. We did quite a bit of road walking which with the mud and ice was probably just as well. Our lunchtime drink was at the Little Rose in Haslingfiled (no food served at lunch time). Followed by a tea and mince pies at John’s house in Shelford. Sally and I as A group walkers decided to add an extra 4 miles onto the day by walking back to Cambridge – exploring the not completed guided busway and very nearly getting stuck in a car park!
On the way I had an interesting talk with Paul who I discovered was another map geek plus we shared mutual friends from my Cavendish days.
Here is the walk and today’s pictures:-
Geoff on Dec 21 2009 | Filed under: Personal, Products
A thought occurred to me after reading this Twitter from Mark Littlewood.
What if Cambridge based Plastic Logic’s new screen is going to be the display for the often rumoured Apple Tablet?
With investors pumping 250 million dollars or so it would seem to me that they might have a big company ready to start taking their production 
and the display is certainly sexy enough:-
Here is a youtube video of the display in action!
It would certainly kill all other Netbook devices on the market!
Geoff on Dec 20 2009 | Filed under: Cambridge Rambling Club, Personal, Travel Blogging, Walks, travel blog
Our friend Ellee has just done a great blog post on The Wonders of Walking.
Tis a pity she wasn’t with us today as Sally and I had a beautiful walk with the Cambridge Rambling Club. The leaders for today should have been Margaret & Larry. However, due to the icy road conditions and because they live in the remote regions of Cambridgeshire where gritter lorries never appear (although it has to be said Cambridge city centre pavements have yet to be gritted!) they couldn’t make the walk.
So Ron & Margaret stepped into the breech and gave 9 of us as a totally stunning walk around Cambridge starting from Cherry Hinton Hall taking in the chalk pits and the old lime kiln and thence through the Addenbrookes industrial complex onto Nine Wells and the start of Hobson’s conduit then along the Cam into the city and a welcome break of hot mince pies and coffee at Henry’s. Then onward across Jesus Green, Midsummer common, Coldhams common and back to Cherry Hinton Hall.
The weather was very cold (well -4ish) with crystal clear skies and beautiful mellow winter sun bringing out the best in the college brick & stonework.
A beautiful satisfying walk in the winter sun and a fitting tribute for a great 2009 walking year. So Ellee’s post is very apt!
Here is the walk and pictures (please excuse the thumbprints on some of the images ) on Everytrail:-
Geoff on Nov 16 2009 | Filed under: Personal
Here’s a new test of your internet connection that measures things like packet loss, ping times and jitter.
My BT connection gets a B grade, a bit like me at secondary modern school!
Geoff on Nov 15 2009 | Filed under: Cambridge Rambling Club
Today’s weather was as beautiful as it was foul on our last ramble with the Cambridge Rambling Club. Carolin ably led us on a beautiful 14mile walk around the undulating countryside of Barley. Still some fruit on the trees although well past its sell by date, but showing just how rich we are that we can afford to leave whole apple trees unpicked! plus we saw the delightful spindle tree fruits, the name came from when the tree was used for making the spindles used when spinning wool.
A wonderful day in very pleasant company and fine weather. Many thanks to Sally of Swedish massage fame for the fine vegetable chilli which we had with Anthony & Kay last night and for our lunch today!
Here is the walk on Everytrail:-
The new boots worked well in the long wet grass at the start of the day.
Now to decide about selling and buying houses in Cambridge……
Geoff on Nov 12 2009 | Filed under: Personal
Not good news at all from the W3C mobile checker:-
Better news on the house front, A famous poet & author is really interested, better get her autograph as apparently she translated Isla’s favourite Moomin book.
Geoff on Nov 10 2009 | Filed under: Personal
To celebrate three years of @geoffjones on Twitter here is a Wordle of my Tweets:-
and here are my statistics from Tweetstats:-
So I have been twittering about 5 times a day, mainly from their website although lately I’ve taken to reading mostly on Tweetie.
Its good to see that companies like BT are using Twitter in such a constructive fashion that folks like Doc Searls advocated all those years ago in the Cluetrain manifesto.
PS According to When did I join Twitter, I created my account on 20th November 2006
Geoff on Nov 06 2009 | Filed under: Personal
After the recent walk where my Scarpa ZG65 XCR boots let me down by leaking, after a morning walking in heavy rain. I returned them to Open Air who agreed they were faulty and supplied me free of charge with a new pair.
I thought I would be smart and test the new boots before walking in them. I quickly made a test rig to hold the boots down in the sink to a depth of 120mm. Before immersion I weighed the insoles (about 28gm apiece), then repeated weighing after various immersion times. Here’s the results:-
As you can see the boots were pretty water tight for around 8 hours or so, after this the right boot leaked noticeably more than the left. Obviously this was a static test, in practice when walking you will get a pumping action so it will be interesting to see how they fare in the next rain walk.
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