Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

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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.

Primark in Cambridge

The Cambridge Primark opens tomorrow in Burleigh Street (the revamped John Lewis building ). To promote the opening of Primark they used today ten walking billboards as part of a targeted marketing campaign from Look Media UK. I thought it was highly effective and looked rather cool.

From Primark in Cambridge

Here is a little slideshow:-

Primark is the first major (Over 50,000 sq ft) new store in Cambridge since the opening of the Grafton Centre. There website for a job is here