Jonc

Apr
30th

Thu

The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

This guy wrote ‘The Four Hour Work Week’, which is basically how to re-think your life in terms of what you actually want to do. Blog is quite interesting and varied in it’s subjects.

Apr
11th

Fri

OK, so I’m sitting in my cube at the moment, on a nice sunny Thursday afternoon. It’s day 4 in America, I’m still not fully adjusted to the time (I keep waking up at 4am), so am having some coffee.

A recap of my trip so far:

Woke up early Monday morning to get to Heathrow on time for my flight (3 hours beforehand). On arriving I wasn’t convinced that the ‘quick bag drop’ was going to be quick, turning out to be the better part of an hour, at which point I joined the next queue.

It seems like…

Jul
28th

Sat

The List

A couple of friends of mine created a website. Who’s top of the list? Are you on the list?

Jul
9th

Mon

Of all the Starbucks in all the cities...

Was greeted by a familiar “Jon?!” in Starbucks this morning.

It was none other than the Job, the American Engineer in Cambridge, who was a staple of second year life.

I was aware he was visiting the UK sometime around next weekend, but to have him one person back in Starbucks!

Jun
28th

Thu

We all love L. Ron

Ever heard of Scientology? Wondered what the fuss is all about. Well here’s a site with all you need to know. You can’t make this stuff up.

May
24th

Thu

Tickets Please...

1) Someone will want to see your ticket/you need to put it in the machine to get out. Have it handy.

2) Do not put it in your handbag, it will take you ages to find.

May
16th

Wed

xkcd

Have a look through the archives. If you don’t get one, don’t worry, it’s probably just _too_ geeky.

If you haven’t heard the song, it’s quite amusing. If you have heard the song, now there’s a slightly amusing video to go with it.

Does not compute

I saw a sign on my way to work this morning, it read:

“6 for the price of 4,
The price acupuncture should be”

May
12th

Sat

mythtv is almost there!

Well I managed to get my TV output looking like proper TV last night, w00t!

(I’m also posting this from the train on my mobile, double w00t!!)