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Les Gets

An experiment to see if I can upload a picture direct from my Picasa to this wordpress blog.

As you can see it worked using dracas Picasa album uploader the picture is of the outside Ice skating rink in Les Gets central square.

It first refused to instal the button in Picasa. in the end I closed Picasa down and then clicked the link in the plug in! That seemed to work fine.

After a brilliant start to the season, with La Grand Ourse having a spectacular New Years Eve party & mega dinner (€100 a head ) on top of Mont Chery (lifts provided in their adapted piste basher) folks are now getting worried with the warm temperatures and rain. Lets hope it cools down a bit quickly!

Just finished reading about Mark Zuckerberg in “the Facebook effect” such incredible  talent and still so young. Pretty impressive that the author David Kirkpatrick was given such access to the leading guys and investors. I bet the guy who sold them the Facebook domain name wished he had taken the stock option he was offered when they changed from thefacebook.com .

I’ve also spent a bit of time creating a new website for our good friend Kay who has just qualified as a Celebrant!

I’ve also fitted a current cost meter and bridge onto the apartments electric supply so that I can monitor electric usage and internal temperature from anywhere in the world 🙂 If you have a gmail account and want to see the readings please leave a comment and I will send you a link.

Memolane displays my memories

Thanks to a post by Scoble I managed to get a beta sign up to Memolane.

Memolane takes my feeds from, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, last.fm, foursquare, Tripit, YouTube & My own website

and then displays the aggregated feed contents as an horizontal time line – really cool to see all my travels displayed this way. Unfortunately they were having problems with Twitter but hopefully when you click on my time line it should be there now.

Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a plugin

Experimenting with the Blackbird Pie Plugin . What should appear is Sally’s latest tweet!

[blackbirdpie id=”15314138607652864″]

Worked very well indeed! Just some confusion initially as there are no setup options: Just click on the Blackbird in the WordPress editor. Clicking on the Blackbird enables you to search for Twitter by Username, URL or tweet ID

Impressive little plugin!

Instant vanity!

Today Google launched their “Google Instant” search engine they say “Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type”

As with any new search engine my first test is a vanity test 🙂 How much of my name do I have to type to find any or all of my sites.

The answer for Google instant is “geoff jon”

Here is what I get in England:-
geoff jones - Google Search

and here is what Nick gets in Dubai

Geoff Jones in Cusco
Geoff Jones

Which is pretty good, although I need to start posting more images and getting folks to link to them 🙂 🙂