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The journal
Mia wanted some help with her English to Finnish film translation work. Em suggested the use of Urban Dictionary which is really very good especially for finding out current meaning of your name, we discovered that bingham is a fat lady not the place in Nottingham where my sister lived 😉 She also rather liked […]
Sally (who did this excellent post about the walk) and I recently walked the Sheeps Head Trail which starts and ends in Bantry, Cork, Ireland. We did the walk in a anti-clockwise fashion, as the numbered 350+ guide posts indicate. We stayed the two nights we were on the peninsular in Kilchrohane. first night at […]
Pretty amazing what the Exposure plug in on my iPhone discovered. This was the closest geo tagged photo to where I was sitting when playing with the iPhone, and no , I didn’t take the image!
Today was the 3G Iphone release day. I upgraded my old iphone contract for £99 plus £35 a month for 18months for which I get 600 any time minutes and 500 texts per month plus unlimited data. My main reason for upgrading was to get the GPS function. Although now I have it, it isn’t […]
Pretty cool graph of the popularity of Geoff (in the USA) I guess:
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 […]
Here is a rather beautiful rendition of my Resume page, made by Wordle: Powered by ScribeFire.
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 Powered by ScribeFire.
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”…. […]