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WTFIGOH, Northeastern Illinois University?

Posted by on August 3rd 2011 in A bit of a rant, Blog on Site

WTF is going on here?

It wouldn't be so bad if the pic was of somewhere in Bulgaria.
It's actually a pic of the Eastern and the Far Eastern Fells of Cumbria, England.
I should know, it's my image!
Creative Commons?
Pah!

Another link

Fitness Footwear

Posted by on July 12th 2010 in Blog on Site, Shiny new kit

At the back-end of 2009 Adam Smith, Marketing Specialist at Fitness Footwear Ltd., contacted me about reviewing some of his wares in return for some web-exposure for his company. At that time he was offering TNF footwear on a review-and-keep basis but I had to decline as I don't have TNF-shaped feet. Nevertheless I put him in touch with a few other bloggers from my vast blogroll in the hope that they could share in this mutually-beneficial enterprise. Some of them accepted his offer which resulted in the following reviews:

Well, Adam must have been happy with what he'd got out of the deal, as he's been contacting previous reviewers to offer them the chance to review some more goodies as part of his current promotion of Merrell Footwear. Indeed, he asked me for links to even more potential reviewers for his next promo, so I contacted some more folk in order to send him another list of bloggers who have expressed an interest. Please don't be offended if you've not been contacted by me regarding this opportunity - I had over a hundred potential candidates and there was no way that I was going to submit details for all of them. I'm sure that you'll understand my predicament.

Anyway, this time around we've decided to chip in with the review process. We'll be posting about it sometime soon.

Oddments

Posted by on July 3rd 2010 in Blog on Site

I thought I'd share a few bits that I found on the interwebnet yesterday:

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way. Forget the subject matter and consider the underlying principle. This should be mandatory reading for the clueless.

A brilliant disclaimer. Scroll down to and read the red text.

CRKT Eat'N Tool. Only $6.99 for a spork, bottle opener, screwdriver/pry tip, metric wrenches and carabiner multi-tool. Looks like a bargain cool gadget but check out the shipping costs... a shade under $30 to have one 1.5oz item shipped to the UK? No thanks.

Blogroll update

Posted by on January 15th 2010 in Blog on Blog, Blog on Site, Blogroll, Site update, Thanks
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This post by Martin prompted me to update my "GOTO" blogrolls to include a few more blogs and sites that I've bookmarked over the last few weeks.

 

Links added so far this year include:

 

They take the total to over 200 links, all supplied free-of-charge, none of them conditional on the target site having a reciprocal link.

I think I'll be having a links sort-out sometime soon - some of the dropdowns are dropping down a bit too much, so they need recategorising rather than culling. If you've any suggestions as to how to do this in a meaningful and useful way, feel free to let me know.

Anyway, feel free to have a mooch through the links - there may be a few that you've not seen before. If you find any errors or omissions, just holler and I'll get it sorted out.

Thanks for the heads-up, Martin 😎

xkcd science

Posted by on October 5th 2009 in Blog on Site, Just for fun
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Schrödinger:

Kepler:

Centrifugal Force:

Gravitational Mass:

For more stuff like this, start at http://xkcd.com/1/

Awesome pics

Posted by on July 13th 2009 in Astrostuff, Blog on Site, Pics

For those of us with interests in photography, vulcanology and astronomy, I've found a site that ticks all of the boxes.

Just click on the following pic to be transported there (in a digital rather than a literal sense):

© Stromboli online, photo by Dr. Marco Fulle

© Stromboli online, photo by Dr. Marco Fulle

My thanks go to Dr. Fulle for his approval of the use of this thumbnail photo on my blog.
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