Geoff Jones

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 out to your mates use fbLink. Mine is http://fblink.com/GeoffJones

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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 of having additional folks in the house).

Its a far cry from my HIPS report which thought I should be emitting 12  tonnes or if I did all their recommendations 10 tonnes.

They are also using the same measure that Prof. David Mackay used in his lecture at the Cambridge Science Festival.  That is Kilowatt hours per day.

Averaging out the red line (my domestic 2007 combined energy consumption) gives me a figure of about 95kwh/d which for 2 people in the house is about 48kwh/d each.

In his talk he reckoned that UK people use about 125, in the USA about 300.  With Heat at 38kwh/d and light of 4kwh/d plus gadgets of 5kwh/d it looks as though his numbers are spot on. Read his latest book in pdf form here . To see his other predictions and also read Davids blog.

Tags: Carbon dioxide, Carbon footprint, David Mackay, Kilowatt hour

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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 the bit about about double sided wardrobe, one half in bathroom the other in your hotel room

Convert Word Docs to Web Pages - Wired How-To Wiki

Something to try.

Moonwatcher: Total Borrowings of Depository Institutions from the Federal Reserve

Looks terrifying I wonder what the consequences will be….

Literature and Latte - Scrivener

Interesting for when I write a book - wonder if it will convert a Wordpress blog into a book?

Getting Real

Tips on building a business with modern tools.

rooreynolds.com: About / Bio

Interesting techie guy with the doorbell project.

filtrbox : sign up

Looks like a cool way of tracking your interests on the web.

Twibler: Automatically post your new eBay listings on Twitter

Automatically links your ebay account to Twitter

Face to Face | i love typography, the typography blog

Awesome typography

Links created by the Multiple Tab Handler add on in Firefox

Tags: links

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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, stingy, and passive aggressive. No matter where you fall, you are likely to have a few problems with authority.

But we all know Freud was wrong

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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 make no allowances for which direction the house faces or even which part of the country its in, we get the same rating as a north facing house on the Yorkshire moors.

Be interesting to see if any of the prospective buyers want to see it.

Whilst researching this article I noticed that my telephones/internet/mobile bill topped £1722 for the year, ouch!

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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 maps. It looks like Everytrail combines all these features. Here is the Oxfam walk that Sally and I did a few weeks ago.
This is the presentation from EveryTrail:-

2008 Oxfam Walk 13mile - Widget powered by: EveryTrail
and here is the wikiloc version:-

Wikiloc does the nice walking elevation profile and seems to have the bigger user base. However, Everytrail’s flickr integration wins me over.

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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 should hit the presses this Friday.

The cost for the season is £52.50 with my residents leisure card! Full set of pictures are on Flickr

Tags: cambridge, jesus green.sallyinnorfolk, swimming

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

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

Posted by geoffjones on Natuba

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

Sent from my iPhone Follow me at http://geoffjones.com

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