Archive for May, 2006
Another trip to the coast
I’m going back down to the Cote d’azur on Thursday. St Raphael about 40 minutes down from Antibes. I’ve got a few days spring diving organised. St Raph’s supposed to be one of the best dive spots in that part of the world. It’s where the Allied forces landed in 1944, so there are loads [...]
Wierd weather
It’s snowing again.
The blog’s new home
As you can see, the Listings Lab Blog has moved to it’s new home. It’s now a proper, Movable Type blog. This means there is now a proper commenting system that won’t get spammed to death. It’s much more search engine friendly too. Maybe that’s not as important for this particular blog, it’s the hundreds [...]
The stormingest plan ever
I was up late on Saturday night, round at my mate’s place drinking scotch and talking about our respective experience of working in the web industry. We’ve both ended up out here in Chamonix, still working in our personal fields (mine is flash, his is SEO) over broadband internet connections.
One of the problems about what [...]
Returned the rentals
The parental visit ends today. A great success it was too, we’ve one some great walking, eaten some great food and been made it up to 3800m on the aguille de midi. I dropped them off in Geneva this afternoon. I know they had a good time, but I’m also pretty sure that they’ve both [...]
Endings and new beginnings
When finishing with a loved one, do so with a sword not a kind word.
Oscar Wilde (probably misquoted)
A Föhn wind
A föhn wind occurs when a deep layer of prevailing wind is forced over a mountain range. As the wind moves upslope, it expands and cools, causing water vapour to precipitate out. This dehydrated air then passes over the crest and begins to move down slope. As the wind descends to lower levels on the [...]
All right you spamming bastards …..
This simple blog software has served me well for the past 6 months, but I’m sick of constantly cleaning the spam off it and it’s time to move on - I’m going to be moving it to it’s new home in a few days time. The new home is www.citizenbloggers.com, with a full Movable Type [...]
911 slide show
When I was in New York a few years ago I went to go have a look at the hole. True to the American dream there were a lot of enterprising guys with little stalls all around the area selling souvenirs. One of the souvenirs was a set of photograph copies of the whole event. [...]
The Olds
I’m picking up the olds from Geneva airport this evening. They’re coming out for a couple of days. Checking out what their son’s up to I suppose, scoping the place out for future skiing and walking trips.
We’re going to do some walking - I’ve got a good, long walk worked out for tomorrow. Dinners out [...]
