Tweets on 2008-06-27

  • Wondering if @iaindale is still in Tonbridge car park. #
  • Happy anniversary, Prime Minister! #
  • @willhowells you don’t see many people go from hunger to satiety that quickly. #
  • If I’m reading these reports right, Notts Fire and Rescue Service cost the taxpayer about the same as the Royal Family. #
  • Amazed at repair done on these boots – I thought they were finished. #
  • The perils of hotdesking – someone’s got mayo on the mouse. #
  • Enjoying the piece from Chris Rennard on http://www.LibDemVoice.org #

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Inclosure walk

aforestforall brings us news of this Sunday’s “Inclosure Walk” around some of the old paths that ring the city centre.  Start at Queens Walk, in the Meadows, and end up in the Arboretum – a gentle 5 miles apparently, taking in a series of grassed, Victorian paths through the city.

Councillors get an invite every year to this walk, and it has been running for a fair while now.  Every time the little map arrives I have thought “ooh, that sounds interesting,” but this is the first year I have actually been available.

And 5 miles will help greatly in my “Marathon in a Month” challenge, which I am lagging behind in and have to complete before I catch the trains to Germany.

How quick is google?!

Earlier this evening morning I wrote about QR codes.

Then I googled “Nottingham QR codes” to see if there are any hereabouts I can go and practice on rather than just making my own.

My own blog post was already third from the top!

What does this mean? Are there really very few sites about this? Is my amateur unwitting SEO really ruling so well?  No wonder people want links on my site!

Today, I have also been googling Nottingham cowboy boots and found that the cowboy boot shop that used to be opposite the station has not closed, as I feared, but in fact moved round the corner. This might be dangerous knowledge.

QR codes

QR code of http://www.alexfoster.me.uk/The nerd in me was very interested to read about QR codes on Martin Tod’s blog.

A bit of tinkering around, and I’ve found a program my Nokia e65 can use to read the 2-dimensional barcodes, and a website where I can generate the barcodes, and I’m away.

Happily, the barcode reader can also read the Data Matrix format, so I’m not tying myself to one format in a Betamax moment. Irritatingly, QuickMark makes a noise whenever it has successfully decoded something. It’s a good job you can turn that off.

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