Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life
The journal
Thanks to Sally I’m now the proud owner of an Olympus SP-560UZ camera (An Amazon link as the Olympus website is as crap as ever) . So on my next big walk Nick won’t be able to complain about the image quality of my photographs. Currently I’m digesting the 96page Advanced Instruction manual and trying […]
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Pretty cool way of doing searches within Twitters discovered by Scoble:- Scobleizer Very nice Twitter search: http://terraminds.com/twitter/ 16 minutes ago from web I like the way it searches for alternatives around the chosen word. Here is a search for emanating:- As you can see it has automatically extended the search to emanated, eman, emanate, emanations, […]
Amazing Finger Painting apparently some of them can take 10 hours to do and then they are just washed off!. Not sure who the guy is, if you do please let me know and I will give attribution (or take them down if requested). All I can find out at the moment, is that some […]
Last night I went to the celebrations of Cambridge Temperature Concepts winning 6000 pounds in the National Business Plan competition. Shamus and team were in fine form especially since its looking that there first investment round will reach the 250,000+. Alas, without my cash as I missed the deadline, by partying, last night 🙁 and […]
Another very interesting idea from David Troy the creator of Twittervision,. This time it takes the latest photographs posted to Flickr and superimposes them on a rotating globe. and called Flickrvision Click on the image snapshot below to get live postings. Would make a good display in a cafe/restaurant I think Many thanks to Lifehacker […]
I have been just looking at some of SallyinNorfolk‘s spam statistics. SpamKarma has achieved the following in the past 6months:- Total Spam Caught: 47857 (average karma: -12846.66) Total Comments Approved: 626 (average karma: 472.75) Total Comments Moderated: 56 She is now the target of scrapers who are ripping her content.In the two days she has […]
Thursday Clubs post on Facebook Statistics is excellent, showing the total number of Facebook users at 42,966,780 people or 0.6% of the worlds population. I took his top 10 countries and made a table with the respective country populations (taken from Wikipedia). [TABLE=4] As you can see we in in the UK are in bronze […]
Just been checking my server stats for the first 14 days of November. It looks like quite a few folks have problems with their Lexmark printers and Apple Leopard software:- # Hits Search String 1 60 8.46% lexmark leopard 2 37 5.22% geoff 3 33 4.65% geoff jones 4 30 4.23% les gets 5 16 […]
Here is another post using Qumana. Its a very clean system. However the way of entering images is poor, only using using the standard Mac way – That is pretty hopeless with just the filenames and no thumbnails. However, it does allow you to insert ads in each post, which given my low readership is, […]