Bike cartoons from Paris:
Bike in the city – le blog BD de Leah qui nous raconte sa vie / sa ville à vélo.
Blog
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Daily Tweets
- coffee time #
- I signed up at a fitness center this week. Today was the first training session. Went well. Not regretting my decision. #
- "free-wheeling anarchist individual blogger" http://tinyurl.com/32rfzm #
- corporate blogging: "What we are talking about is something in between a real human voice and completely polished corporate speak." #
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Director of The Fairtrade Foundation recommends Satemwa
and Lujeri Tea Estates in an interview with guardian.co.uk:
My favourite hotels are…
Locally run guesthouses. I stay in many around the world, but recently I was in the tea estates of Malawi and stayed at the Satemwa Guesthouse in Thyolo (00 265 1473 256; satemwa.com) and Lujeri Lodge (00 265 8 854 894). It was so beautiful just sitting out on the veranda of these old planters’ houses looking across to Mount Mulanje with the red earth of the land against the vivid green of the tea fields. The guesthouses are almost from another era – basic, but meet all your needs and are quite romantic, with cool marble floors, fans on the ceiling and large beds with mosquito nets.
Source:
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Daily Tweets
- the jog log: felt very tired during today’s run. side effect of the drop in temperature? route: tour de st. jakob #
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Continuing the conversation
At lunch we started talking about fish, and how you shouldn’t buy some kinds ‘cos of over-fishing and conservation reasons.
Which reminded me of a TV report on EU fish factory ships fishing legally and illegally of the coast of West Africa.
I wondered out loud if improved European buyer habits will make a difference at all. Considering the fact that China is buying up Africa’s resources in a huge way and probably has far less misgivings than its Western counterparts.
Reminded me of one report on Zaire’s collapse into disarray many years ago, which stated that the lack of a strong government means easier access to resources.
But there’s no way around conscientious shopping in today’s global world:
Check the packaging before buying groceries and buy local. Fact is, if the real environmental costs of production and transport are added to the pricing, local products would be competitive again.
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Daily Tweets
- the jog log: 50 mins, very rainy and windy at first, stopped raining towards the end. #
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Feb 29 – not recognised as a valid date in Cyberduck
For some weird reason I can’t see some files and folders on my FTP server using Cyberduck.
I know the files exist…
It seems there’s a date-related bug
Happy leap day!
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Twitter down, Flickr contacts disabled
(start tweet)
Twitter isn’t loading, updates to the latest photo of my Flickr contacts is currently disabled.A work colleague would say “It’s software”.
Anyway, WP-powered Chip is up and running.
The return of the micro-site.
Yay, it’s Friday.
(end of tweet)A non-Twitter-based tweet
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Meeting Mlle A.
Last Saturday I met the elusive and mysterious Mlle A. at a coffee place* in Hannover.
Once or twice during the conversation there was a cross-reference to something I or Mlle. A. had written or linked to. And for me that’s one of the powerful side-effects of blogging: there’s a regular reader’s familiarity built over time.
* We were assured by an architect that the shop design featured in various architecture magazines a few years ago.
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Marketer’s Cheat Sheet for cvs and svn?
At work we use cvs and subversion for version control, light years better than Visual SourceSafe.
I’m trying to extend my active command line knowledge of cvs and svn… Remember I’m a low and humble marketer / content developer / writer.Regular commands I use:
cvs update
cvs commit -m "message" filenamecvs tag -F "tagname" filename
cvs update -dPr tagnameto checkout a tagged version
cvs update -dPAto return to headI’m using
cvs (command) --helpto list the various options available.I’m a visual person, and can remember best when I write things down and see them. How do you keep on top of cvs and svn commands? Can you recommend a cheat sheet?
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Helen Levitt at Sprengel Museum
“Die Ästhetik ist bereits in der Wirklichkeit vorhanden.”
Saw the Helen Levitt show at the Sprengel Museum today. I liked it very much and can recommend it.
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In search of power plugs
(start of yesterday’s train journey notes, pêle-mêle off the top of my head, unsorted)
Longer weekend ahead…
I’m sitting in a train to Mannheim and have some time to write a longer blog post and reflect on stuff that happened this week.
Somehow this week went by crazily fast and my todo list decreased by one item and increased by 456 items. Inwardly I’ve switched to turbo output mode.
But I did manage to go running twice. Yay. I’m twittering my jogging experiences. Before dissing Twitter, remember at all times that my tweets could be part of a bigger art project.
Is twittering art?
Since Twittervision is being exhibited at the MoMA in NYC, one of my tweets might display!
And incidentally if secondary scientific literature makes a book rise into the
hallowed ranks of literature studies, doesn’t an exhibition at the MoMA have at least the same “it is art” effect?MacBook and Meetings
I need to improve my presentation skills on the MacBook. Couldn’t get the MacBook to display on the screen and the overhead simultaneously today. Don’t know if it’s linked to last weekend’s Leopard upgrade, but usually it auto-detects the projector. Aargh.
I’m thinking a lot about leadership. And how it differs from management. And how unsettling/unnerving/disorientating/frustrating it is to get different signals depending on the time of day or type of situation or who else is in the meeting. Reminds me of an old John C. Maxwell book I read many years ago how important it is to be people person leader.
(i’m sitting close to the train restaurant = smell of food)
(pause to find Swiss to German plug adapter and hook up power supply)
(just got hit on the arm by a huge white cello case walking by)
Things to do in Hannover:
Shop
Go to library (I miss Hannover libraries)
Go jogging on my old routes (che nostalgia!)
I might attend the BarCamp if i find some time(pause to change trains in Mannheim)
I detect an over-use of cheap over-sweet perfume somewhere in my vicinity. Aaargh. My tip: Never ever save on perfume. Mi da’ veramente fastidio….
At least i found another seat with a power plug. Life is not getting easier with all of the devices and power cables and battery chargers. Half of my back pack is full of tech equipment.
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Unfortunately all of the power plugs were out of order in the train compartment I was sitting in…
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Leopard, Gimp, and GimpShop
After upgrading to Leopard, I could no longer launch Gimp or GimpShop.
There’s a quick fix for Gimp, for help see this screencast.
But GimpShop is a different matter
it seems.
