Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life
The journal
Today I recommence my GR10 walk from the Atlantic to The Mediterrean along The Pyrenees. I stopped halfway in Luchon 4 years ago in freezing cloud & very wet! Today is not looking so good either. It should be 11 hours to get to Fos reaching 2193metres above Luchon (650metres). Now for breakfast…. Evening update! […]
Whilst on my evening walk on this glorious midsummer’s evening listening to the amazing Matt Darey Nocturnal show #305 I bumped into Rend, whilst chatting to her, I realised that few people are aware that I read / glance at about 900 blogs/feeds in my free time. Any posts that catch my eye or that […]
If you are of a curious nature and love snooping around business information. Level Business is a great site for INSTANTLY downloading accounts and other information on all UK limited liabilty companies, and even better its free and produces the information in easily read form.
Here’s a pretty interesting site that allows you to generate random numbers. Not quite sure what I would use it for 🙂 but interesting in a random sort of way. The numbers generated by this widget come from RANDOM.ORG’s true random number generator.
One of the reasons I enjoy travelling so much are the fascinating people you meet. in unexpected situations. Yesterday when getting on the bus to Marocos I bumped into Ann & John, we instantly struck up a rapport, (they were confused as they had been told to use Bus 1 whereas we were on Bus […]
One of my dreams has been to live in the winter sun, I really hate to be burning up money just to try and keep myself warm! It seems a lot more economical to live in a climate where the sun keeps you warm! However, I couldn’t live in really hot countries like Dubai etc […]
Just had this great email from the last tenants in my Les Gets apartment Hi Geoff, We’re all back safe, sound and much refreshed having had a great time in Les Gets. The apartment was clean, comfy and well appointed and helped us to have a super skiing trip. As you said the pistes were […]
You really couldn’t make this stuff up! In The Guardian we have “one stipulation by senior commanders was that undercover officers should be married” and “Undercover police officers routinely adopted a tactic of “promiscuity” with the blessing of senior commanders” So you just tell the missus, I’m going undercover for a while (to have a good […]
Now for the first time in ages I’m having time to explore my google reader feeds and experimenting with the Chrome browser. Tonight I was reading “My hearts in Accra” feed and I came across this:- Everything the Internet Knows About Me (Because I Asked It To) – Digits – WSJ Zach Seward looks at […]
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 […]
