Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life
The journal
Received this from Saga today:- We are pleased to announce that we have recently introduced a photo gallery function to Saga Zone, allowing members to upload and share photographs. Once you have logged in, you can click on the Gallery Tutorial link on the Home Page to see what it is all about and then […]
Started to look into my Google Webmaster tools for geoffjones.com. I was amazed to see that the Google statistics show that I have 14,170 external links pointing to geoffjones.com mainly to the home page. Upon drilling down I discovered that 8,649 of the links are from Doc Searls, which is incredible as I can only […]
Interesting article in wikihow on calculating and increasing your metabolic rate:- Calculate your resting metabolic rate (RMR). RMR is often used interchangeably with basal metabolic rate (BMR); although they are slightly different, estimating either is sufficient for the purpose of losing weight. To calculate your RMR, use the Mifflin-St Jeor equation (which is more reliable […]
Interesting walk to Grantchester this morning to The Orchard tea rooms with Sally. The river was about 6 feet lower than normal due to work being carried out on the sluice gates at the Kings Mill weir on the mill pond (18th Feb until 3rd March). Here is a picture of the upper river punts […]
Fantastic room wanted ad that came in my Gumtree RSS feed:- Unfortunately I don’t have a greenhouse or shed at the bottom of the garden suitable….
Here in Les Gets there are always lots of happenings, rather reminds me of a huge Club Med. Today when the pistes had shut down we were entertained in the newly constructed area by the ice rink (patinore) with the Marabunta drummers’ fiendish rhythms: Rather reminded me of David’s Drummin Divas group in Cambridge […]
One of the great finds today in my feeds was this post on the Google Earth blog discussing Wikiloc. Wikiloc is a free wiki that allows you to upload your GPS traces to their site as GPX files. You then get detailed statistics on your trail complete with map and aerial photo overlay. As a […]
Earlier this year I came across this Gizmodo article featuring a low cost dental camera. I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of doing your own body inspections using small cameras (preferably with some sort of measurement capability – is that spot growing or shrinking ? ) Well the camera finally arrived direct from China. […]
Just thought I would share with all (8) readers my google reader statistics:- As you can see I’m averaging about 1500 new posts a working day down to around 600 a day at the weekends. I’ve been reading more consistently here in Les Gets as there seem to be fewer distractions, I can only hack […]
Apparently George Bush is visiting Dubai, so at 4pm on Sunday (A normal working day in Islamic countries) a National Holiday was declared for today, Monday. Aren’t dictatorships so wonderful . You just do as you please 🙂 With the result today here was no traffic congestion, in fact no cars at all! So I […]