Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Author: Geoff

Clinically Famous Bellydance

Visited my Pilates Teacher Daphne on her second night of the play chronicling her time in Cairo as a bellydancer. An excellent performance with some great bellydancing as well.

The second part was by Caroline Ann Gold called Clinically Famous and was a dramatised version of her stay at The Priory with agitated depression coupled with a critique of soap operas. Very amusing with excellent acting.

Both plays were directed by John Voce

They are intending to take both plays to The Edinburgh Fringe if they can raise the few thousand quid it takes. Maybe I can get Euan Spence interested in helping out…

When will they learn….Ski Hire Les Gets France

My friend Thierry who runs Nevada Sports, a really passionate person dedicated to ski/snowboard/mountainbike sales and rental in Les Gets, France. Thierry is keen to raise his internet profile. I’ve suggested to him blogging but to no avail. His latest attempt at a web site is using Clic online to implement a flash effort.
Running a spoof googlebot supplied by Smart IT consulting gives this result on his home page:-
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Louer vos skis et votre snowboard, payer moins cher avec Nevada Sports, station de ski Les Gets
meta name=”description” content=”Louez, Reservez votre materiel en ligne, et economisez sur la location. Des packs (skis, snowboard, casques..) adaptes a tous types de glisse, du debutant au confirme. Un moniteur national de ski a votre service pres des pistes des chavannes, station de ski des gets. Portes du soleil, liaison, avoriaz, morzine, nyon.”
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Which to my way of thinking is awful. Your first page should be text rich, maximising your google opportunities. How will a UK person typing in ski hire Les Gets, ever find him? Maybe this post will help a little.

Personality Test

A really cool way of testing your personality is at PersonalDNA.com using really slick sliders and 2D layouts.

I’m a Free wheeling Leader apparently

And two of my children are:-
The Animated Visionary and The Cautious Director:-

So perhaps we will get a family business up and running one day althought our common thread is a low empathy!

Thanks to Erick Schonfeld at business2.blogs.com

First Skype video

Here is a still of my first video Skype call with Nick. Only problem is it seems to crash his network 🙁

Its really cool, although a biyt ‘jerky’ . I like the PIP (picture in picture) mode.