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Philip kindly invited Sally, Doug, Adrian and myself to the pre-match lunch at CRUFC. Todays match was towards the EDF National Trophy , Cambridge played Rotherham (Top of National League 1). A very exciting game with Cambridge only losing by one point 🙁 It was the first outing for my Olympus SP-560UZ with its new […]
Awesome video of paper plane thrown from a 30 storey building. The plane flys for over 60 seconds with The Brooklyn Bridge as a back drop. Link from http://overstated.net/2008/01/04/epic-paper-airplane-flight Video at http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2008/01/01
The meaning of my name Geoff according to Blogthings:- What Geoff Means You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life. You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone. Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don’t appreciate them trying to interfere in […]
A Happy New Year to all my readers from the Cam… The Cam water temperature was 7 degrees celsius. About 20 or 30 other brave folks did it too although there was apparently some competition from Jesus Green which specially opened today although at £10 entrance we preferred The Cam!
Here is Caroline talking to the new landlady of The Plough and Fleece in Horningsea, Cambridge. A favourite apparently for the folks on The Science Park. We found it very warm and inviting after our 10 mile Boxing day walk along the river to Waterbeach Lock, Lode and then across the fields to the pub. […]
Happy Christmas to all and especially to the latest blogger Emily 🙂 She can be found at the great url emily.im In this piccy you can see Em with her premature 18th birthday present which has been christened her baby. According to Fortune its Amazon’s bestselling computer this Christmas yep its the Apple 13″ MacBook. […]
Doc Searls coined this rather cool new word phrowser in his post on the phone browser I just googled the word and as of now there are 6 entries Will be interesting to see if the word catches on like Podcasting did (coined by Ben Hammersley). I certainly agree that the iPhone has transformed mobile […]
So you have bought your new unlocked iPhone from the local Indian market trader in Dubai for 2900 Drm ( 386 UKP) and now you want to transfer your old SIM card contacts to the iPhone contact book. Is there a neat utility (like on the Treo’s) to do this? Nope! you need the waitress […]
Whilst on my walk from Nicks offices in Media City. I came across a filling station:- That is at the exchange rate today:- 6.25 AED = 0.834319 GBP United Arab Emirates Dirhams United Kingdom Pounds 1 AED = 0.133491 GBP 1 GBP = 7.49114 AED or about 83 pence per gallon, Nick says, don’t forget […]