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The journal
If you have spend time diligently filling in an online form, only to lose the whole thing due to server timeout, browser crash or any of the other myriad reasons that sods law dictates what what will go wrong will go wrong at a critical moment.. Then you need the Lazarus Form Recovery add in […]
Here is an experiment to see if it is possible to publish a slideshow created by Picasa in a WordPress post using Scribefire. You can see it works 🙂 but you must insert the slideshow first by using the small right hand arrow :- and then click on “insert a custom HTML tag”. Paste the […]
I failed to wake up for the #travellinggeeks do in Cambridge UK (Oh OK I didn’t even have a ticket for the sell out event 🙁 ) However, tonight Sally and I managed to take Robert Scoble out for an Indian at the Saffron Brassiere , it was great chatting to him again after our […]
My very good friend Michael, who has such a way with words, today emailed me “I’ve just requested a PAC from Orange so I am heading inexorably toward an iPhone. You will have to recommend 10 must have apps.” So here are my favourite apps. (Skewed towards travelling) – In no particular order… so: Skype […]
From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/09/metropolitan_police_photo/The Metropolitan Police has issued guidance to its officers to remind them that using a camera in public is not in itself a terrorist offence. There has been increasing concern in recent months that police have been over-using terrorism laws and public order legislation to harass professional and amateur photographers. The issue was raised […]
Sally seemed keen for me to upgrade my iPhone, checking out the My 02 website it seemed to indicate that my contract had expired on the 9th May:- However, O2 knows better, after the usual lengthy frustrating call with them , I was told the contract, according to them, expires in December! and no they […]
Sorry to my regular readers about the lack of updates 🙁 It is simply due to me enjoying myself so much and having an active social life. From 26May The fact is I am simply loving travelling here, especially with beer at $1 a pint, hotel rooms at $8 night and decent meals for less […]
After 12 hours here in The Galapagos I decided to extend my stay for another week! A quick bike ride to the airport,then about 12 steps from parking the bike to the AeroGal office followed by about 10 clicks on her computer and the job was done, no charge, no fuss. Airports and booking as […]
Finally, about 50 years after Stan and I marvelled at huge tortoises, I’ve arrived at The Galapagos islands interestingly at the same place that Darwin landed t 200 years ago! I guess better late than never 🙂 This afternoon I did a little walk by the cultural centre which is full of profoundly depressing stuff […]
Today I tagged along with Margaret and her driver for an all day shopping trip up north from Quito. First stop was Calderon where they specialise in making highly coloured figurines from bread dough or masapan. Reasonably interesting and I guess where Oxfam gets some of its clutter from. A little factoid garnered was that […]