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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 […]
Following up from my daughters profile:- (Extraverted Sensing with Introverted Feeling) just about sums me up
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
Just finished replanting the terrace and now experimenting with Nicks postie plugin. Sent from my iPhone Follow me at https://geoffjones.com
Testing the new Natuba website that enables photos from my iPhone to be posted directly to the blog, we hope Posted by geoffjones on Natuba
A quick recap of some of the tabs open in my Firefox right now:- Hit the snooze button on your “verbose” Twitter friends and we all have a few of them :-). Create an RSS feed from any page on the net (enables you to detect changes without going to the site). Employ people by […]
Hard to believe:- HowManyOfMe.com There are 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?
Here is a pretty neat example of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk in action. You can upload one picture a day to Facestat they then give it to their, paid, mechanical turk folks to analyse the picture for your social standing. I used the picture that Sally really loves. In my case they were pretty well correct […]
Totally staggering story about the manipulation of photographic evidence in driving offenses taken from The Newspaper.com “The spread of photo enforcement depends upon the truism that the camera never lies. A photograph presents a record of exactly what happened, free of the human problems of bias or misrecollection. This month, however, a UK motorist was […]
I have a set of skiing goggles & swimming goggles but who in there right mind wants a set of onion goggles? especially at £13.99 a pair! For those that must, available in Cambridge at the new store of Home Store & More in the old Beehive shopping centre.