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Sally  bought me a Oregon WMR88 weather station with anemometer, wind direction, outside temperature and rainfall gauges. I’ve finally have it working with the Asus Eee running XP Pro in its 8GB of memory and uploading the data through my WiFi to Wunderground. Giving the lovely chart above. Next job is to mount the anemometer onto the TV aerial above the house to minimize ground effects. That can wait for the warmer weather though. Read Full Story

After last night’s epic (by Cambridge standards) 4″ of snow. The Cambridge Rambling Club A group walk around Histon was cancelled so Sally & I met up with Jill at the usual starting place in Harvey Road and concocted our own walk up to Coton (where we bumped into the B group) then across to Grantchester for a scone and cuppa at The Orchard with a ramble back along the river to Cambridge. A very pretty walk in the snow, although my legs found it quite tiring like walking along the beach. The... Read Full Story

Having just read or skimmed Mark Zuckerberg’s letter in the regulatory filing to make Facebook a public company. I thought it would be fun to do a Wordle on his public letter about Facebook. here it is. Wordle - Mark Zuckerberg S1 filing letter Just love our the word People (41 mentions) stands out! In fact the words in numerical order, from Textalayser ,  are people(41) our (30) facebook (17) build (16) building (15) make (15) world (14) want (11) better (11) best (11) Total... Read Full Story

Here’s a bit of a review of Sleepcycle , Fitbit & Zeo as ways of monitoring your sleep activity. It has to be said at the outset that I have never suffered from a problem with falling asleep or staying asleep My only problems are my nocturnal ramblings to take a pee due to my enlarged prostate and folks (but not Sally!) complaining about my snoring. I started with the SleepCycle iPhone app  which gave lots of pretty graphs like these  and allowed you to set an alarm which woke you when you... Read Full Story

Nope, I’m not talking about borrowing money to pay of credit card debts. I’m talking about The Fitbit and balancing the amount of calories you eat against the calories you burn through exercise. The Fitbit rates your exercise levels into 4 levels, sedentary, lightly, fairly & very active. Very active is shown as red and is typically (for me) above 7 cals/min. You can also log a daily food diary, when you eat more calories than you have burnt the calorie zone changes from green to red... Read Full Story

Here is the guy clearing the entrance to my apartment in Les Gets this morning. Oh how I would love to have such a machine Heavy Snow in Les Gets High winds prevented access to the Northern  slopes of Mont Chéry today, so hopefully lots of new runs there tomorrow. Here is the scene at the mid station today: The day after a night of snow Finally managed to get the new Air working as well today with its illuminated keyboard, after making the mistake of transferring all the old files... Read Full Story

Oh dear it has been officially noted that I’m been very lazy. Just received this from Amazon:- We noticed your blog (listed below) has not updated for more than 30 days. Kindle customers expect to receive frequent updates for blogs and news feeds to which they subscribe. Because blogs should update at least once per month, we are cancelling blogs that have not updated in more than 60 days. Please update your blog regularly. If it is a seasonal blog, please let us know the publication... Read Full Story

Tonight the annual Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge event kicked of with a session on the Future of Education. Six panelists outlined their vision of educations future in ten minutes or so each, I captured the audio and made rough notes using my LiveScribe pen. The full commentary is now live her e. My take on the speakers is:- First up was the Cambridge Vice Chancellor,  Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz  who mentioned the Catch22 the University was in regarding the so called Grand... Read Full Story

Sally and I dedicated October to walking The Lycian Way in Turkey. In 23 walking days we managed to do 262 miles of the 318 , so we walked around 82% of the route including both ends. Section’s we missed are:- The day from Akmel to Gelemis. Although we did walk most of it the other way! (Section 8 ) We walked a different route from Demre (Myra) to Andriake taking in the remains at Sura. Many thanks to Salih for rescuing us from Andriake and helping us with the walk to Alakilise. (End... Read Full Story

Starting to get concerned about walking 300miles in temperatures above 30 degrees centigrade! There is a good write up from some who did The Lycian Way earlier this year here http://bit.ly/qWhrOV I’ve ‘borrowed’ their GPS trail and put it in the Gaia GPS iPhone app and also on my etrex unit! Let’s see ho often we wander off the trail Like Unlike Read Full Story