Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life
The journal
Welcome to my 1001 blog post, or so WordPress thinks! I started blogging in 2002, using Dave Winer‘s Radio software. This is a screenshot of the first posts that I can find:- Interesting about the post on the real inventor of the telephone. Tonights talk at Biosoc was given by Nick Franks which he started […]
Here is the window dressing, last Saturday, at the main Boots store in Cambridge, Have you ever seen such a mess? Reminded me of Woolworths before they gave up the ghost, their old store is now a Next. I wonder what the Boots will become? Maybe Mr Tesco should take it on -given how busy […]
Its beginning to look good for winter sports in Les Gets, France where my apartment is. Here is the webcam view taken this evening from the tourist office looking towards the apartment. Currently I have bookings on the following dates:- 26 Dec 2008 to 4 Jan 2009 (KB party of 4) 4 Jan to 31st […]
Wow, if only the rest of the movie/music business would follow where Monty Python leads! The Monty Python Channel on YouTube Powered by ScribeFire.
Impressive image both for the accuracy of the Etrex/Ascent/HoudahGeo photo placement software and also showing the rate of coastal erosion over the past few years on the North Norfolk coast. Seems to be about 3feet from when the Google satellite images where taken! Powered by ScribeFire.
Today’s little walk was from Cley to Sheringham. A bit of a late start due to us taking the long way from Kings Lynn 🙁 However it was a lovely clear day with the tide in, the pebble beach makes the walking a bit harder but very rewarding with the sea sounds. The big surprise […]
Having sold my old offices to Studio24 on Monday. I’m now looking at places to invest my gains ( Pretty low by the way , the property has roughly doubled in price over 20 years) although when fully let it was yielding 9%. I called up the Kings Street Housing Association. They offer a private […]
In the best spirit of Anglo / Russian co-operation. Here I am holding Colin and Maria’s one month old baby ДАНИЛКА. (that’s Danilka or Daniel in English). Maria is a Russian born tennis coach who teaches at the David Lloyd tennis centre and was one of my lodgers a few years ago. Colin was one […]
Having attended many talks about chance and randomness it is still amazing when certain chance events occur. When Sally and I were walking the Camino Via de la Plata from Seville a few weeks ago we bumped into two German lads, Manuel & Michael. Manuel was walking all the way to Santiago and in fact […]
Interesting talk by Andy Hopper tonight on Computing the future. I especially liked his comments on setting projects for his PhD students. they have to be more advanced than what Google or Microsoft are doing but not totally science fiction stuff – A hard job these days I reckon. Other interesting points was that 2-3% […]