links for 2007-01-07 Villars snow reports, Villars resort information – with Iglu.com (tags: snowreports villars skiing snowboarding switzerland) More
links for 2007-01-03 The official website of Villars-Gryon – Home (tags: Alps Switzerland skiing) WCTT Home They’re doing Time Trials on Wimbledon Common every Saturday morning following successful events in Bushey Park. (tags: wimbledoncommon London running timetrials) Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without from Guardian Unlimited: Technology List of useful sites under the Web 2.0 banner –... More
links for 2006-12-14 socialwrite.com » 2007: The Year of Enterprise 2.0? (tags: lists socialcomputing socialmedia predictions enterprise2.0) More
Norwegian wood or fake plastic trees? A good excuse for a musical reference, but this isn’t to do with choosing between the Beatles and Radiohead. I was just wondering what kind of Christmas tree we should be buying this year. With all the recent mention of carbon footprints, are we doing more for the environment buying the traditional Norwegian Spruce or... More
Fast ticket? The nutshell: buying rail tickets online still isn’t very joined up. TTL: “Thank you for calling thetrainline.com how can I help?” Me: “Hello, I accidentally managed to book myself two tickets using the website. Can you tell me how I can cancel one of them please?” [brief exchange of reference numbers and identification information] TTL:... More
Lost but for words I can tell Wordie has the potential to become highly addictive for all the right reasons even if I haven’t quite understood the point yet… Wordie lets you make lists of words — practical lists, words you love, words you hate, whatever. See who else has listed the same words, add citations and comments, and... More
Funeral Parlour question Why are funeral parlours so often on street corners? My folks were discussing this recently and have a theory about access/parking of hearses, which used to be horse-drawn. Enough to drive you round the bend 😉 More
links for 2006-11-15 Gresham College | Home Gresham College, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham in 1597, is an independently funded educational institution based in Barnard’s Inn, Holborn, in the centre of London. It provides free public lectures by its eight professors and holds other events. The co (tags: learning) More
WordPress upgrade Finally caught up and upgraded the software behind this blog to WordPress version 2.0.5 It’s very straightforward – I’d thoroughly recommend WordPress to anyone considering setting up their own blog – and it’s free too – you have the option to have it hosted by wordpress or to host it yourself. More