Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Category: Personal

Arrival

Arrived in the Cost Rica backpackers hostel at 5pm after leaving Cambridge at 2.45am, A long day with all the connections clicking into place, lets hope it goes as well for Sally.

The immigration officer was very friendly even though ne noticed my birthplace, on the passport, doesn’t have a football team. Knew i should have been in Sheffield.

The hostel seems good value at $25 per night with their transfer costing $20, food not so good, rather burnt tortilla chips.

Here is the rather pleasant pool area:-

Driving through downtown San Jose rather reminded me of parts of Dubai (not the new skyscraper bit obviously) although  a lot more razor wire here!!

Departure

Writing this on the plane as we are about to depart to Madrid en route to San Jose, Costa Rica. Smooth if somewhat early start 🙂

Left Maisie & parents an Easter Egg for when they arrive to live in the house for the next 3 months.

So chocks away…..

100K mark reached

Today I noticed my Flickr viewson the 5,697 images I share  have reached 100,089 🙂 Would have been nice to display my popular image of all time but Flickr don’t seem to let me find out easily, anymore 🙁

Wonder how many pictures the collection will grow by on the the next 90 days!

Accidental successes

Some clips from Jeff Jarvis which I totally agree with.

Twitter
“On celebrity, Marwick says that it is a one-to-many relationship. Celebrity is having followers. Aha, so that makes Twitter a machine that makes us all celebrities, no? Everybody’s famous to 15 followers.”

Flickr
“When the photo service Flickr started, its husband-and-wife founders, Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, made a fateful if almost accidental decision. As Fake puts it, they “defaulted to public.” That is, while other online photo services made the assumption that users would want to keep personal pictures private—stands to reason, no?—Flickr decided instead to make photos public unless told otherwise.”

Facebook
“But remember the key insight that made Facebook such a success: It brought real names and real relationships to the internet. It’s about good friends.”

So #camrev businesses take note!

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