Category: twiku

October 30, 2009

And Monarchs to Behold the Swelling Scene

Filed under: Diary, Techie Stuff, Websites, twiku - 30 Oct 2009

Well – anyone really.

A year away from the Hurly Burly of Internet an a couple of months back in and it is a can of worms.

So I am testing some old ideas of “popularity”, for example This is a

September 27, 2009

Bonjour Paris

Filed under: twiku - 27 Sep 2009

A very good newsletter and valuable website for anyone thinking of visiting or living in Paris is <a href=”http://www.bonjourparis.com/”http://www.bonjourparis.com/ . Karen Fawcett puts a lot of love and effort into these friendly and helpful pages

Enjoy Your Paris

Filed under: twiku - 27 Sep 2009

Another service I found on my Facebook wall is EnjoYourParis – like TripBod , this gives you a person to person experience on your travels.EnjoYourParis takes this a stage further and gives you (the possibility of) an

Nanocrystalline titanium dioxide photoelectrodes

Filed under: twiku - 27 Sep 2009

Titanium Dioxide – interesting stuff. Google tio2 and get a glimpse of what photovoltaic technology might be morphing into.

I am spending a quiet Sunday thinking about this as I was shown some interesting technology last week which is making

Kwiqq me a Tripbod

Filed under: twiku - 27 Sep 2009

The Internet is fascinating – it is like watching a million years of evolution condensed into a month with a time-lapse camera. I have been writing on the Internet, one way or another, for over ten years – before broadband,

Raisins to be Cheerful

Filed under: twiku - 27 Sep 2009

My regular dog walk is alongside the river Thonge through vineyards – the dogs chase rabbits and hares and I see kingfishers (well one) – but for the past couple of months part of the pleasure has been discovering the

September 23, 2009

Haiku on Wiring a House

Filed under: twiku - 23 Sep 2009

Wire has its own rules
We say it has its own mind
This is our excuse

My Personal Dream

Filed under: twiku - 23 Sep 2009

It is over ten years since I started writing posts on my Internet sites (they were not called blogs then) and nearly a quarter of a century since I first encountered the very first glimmer of the Internet and

September 18, 2009

Trafficator

Filed under: twiku - 18 Sep 2009

A word getting lost in the mists of time – I was fascinated to learn the shape of the Trafficator arm is closely based upon the shape of the semaphore signal arm used by the Royal Bavarian Railway beginning in

Got a Roquette in My Pocket

Filed under: twiku - 18 Sep 2009

Or are you just glad to see me? We have named our home Villa Roquette because I could get the Internet names for http://www.villaroquette.com and similar ones like www.villarocket.com etc etc – I also like it in

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