BT broadband gets a B grade like me!
Here’s a new test of your internet connection that measures things like packet loss, ping times and jitter.
My BT connection gets a B grade, a bit like me at secondary modern school!
Category: Personal
Not mobile friendly :-(
Not good news at all from the W3C mobile checker:-
Better news on the house front, A famous poet & author is really interested, better get her autograph as apparently she translated Isla’s favourite Moomin book.
My Twitter 3rd anniversary
To celebrate three years of @geoffjones on Twitter here is a Wordle of my Tweets:-
and here are my statistics from Tweetstats:-
So I have been twittering about 5 times a day, mainly from their website although lately I’ve taken to reading mostly on Tweetie.
Its good to see that companies like BT are using Twitter in such a constructive fashion that folks like Doc Searls advocated all those years ago in the Cluetrain manifesto.
PS According to When did I join Twitter, I created my account on 20th November 2006
Scarpa Boots water tests
After the recent walk where my Scarpa ZG65 XCR boots let me down by leaking, after a morning walking in heavy rain. I returned them to Open Air who agreed they were faulty and supplied me free of charge with a new pair.
I thought I would be smart and test the new boots before walking in them. I quickly made a test rig to hold the boots down in the sink to a depth of 120mm. Before immersion I weighed the insoles (about 28gm apiece), then repeated weighing after various immersion times. Here’s the results:-
As you can see the boots were pretty water tight for around 8 hours or so, after this the right boot leaked noticeably more than the left. Obviously this was a static test, in practice when walking you will get a pumping action so it will be interesting to see how they fare in the next rain walk.