Category: google+

Not sure how, or why, but Google have given me a custom Google+ URL

Well it looks like if you leave a HTC Desire in a drawer for a few months without using it they die totally. Won't even boot into recovery…..

I've tried a different battery, taken out the SIM and the additional MicroSD card but it looks like its toast.

Not happy.

Plane Tickets  – Check
ESTA – still to do
Recharge spare mobile – still to do
Top Up US Roaming SIM and get new US number – still to do.

Everything is falling into place for 2 and a bit weeks in Maine for Thanksgiving…….

Went boating for a long week – wrote a little blog entry for each day using my plugin for WordPress that allows you to embed links to CanalplanAC in your post, and embed google maps  too.

Its going to feel a little odd not doing DBA work from November 1st but I'm sure I'll still be doing little bits from time to time and using those skills in my new job.

Reshared post from +Patrick Hill

Without Steve Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) we would have:
• No iProducts.
• No over expensive laptops.

✔ Without Dennis Ritchie (September 9, 1941 – October 9, 2011) we would have:
• No Windows.
• No Unix.
• No C.
• No Programs.
• A large setback in computing.
• No Generic-text Languages.
• We would all read in Binary.

✔ They died in the same year and the same month but it seems only few notice the death of Dennis Ritchie compared to Steve Jobs.
✔ It won't cost you anything to press the share button so spread it ! 🙂

Quiet an interesting article from an non waterways perspective.

On the BBC this morning they were talking about electric cars and their costs and practicality. The electric version of the Nissan Leaf is about £12,000 more than its traditional engined version and has a range of about 100 miles between re-charges.

For £12,000 (ignoring interest etc.) we could buy enough diesel to do over 110,000 miles in our current car and it's range between "recharges" is about 750 miles ( and a recharge takes less than 3 minutes and can be done in a lot of places). Our current car cost under £1000 second hand.

A car with a 100 mile range would mean we couldn't get to our boat moorings without a recharge (and another one on the way back) and we'd need two  (four for the round trip) to get home to visit my parents.  
Of course people will say " Well you use the Leaf for commuting and you have a second car to do long trips" . Financially an electric car will never make sense for a lot of people and that includes us.

Why do people that I don't know, and who seem to do nothing but post spam plugging the company they work for, decide to add me to their circles? I assume its is some sad attempt to build their audience and expose more people to their company….

Doesn't work as far as I'm concerned.

But we had plenty of cold beer and cider and a BBQ.