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Izzy and Dad in New York

Prior to the ride in New York, I was doing some business in the US and had a free weekend in NYC.  So I arranged for Izzy to come out to New York and to spend the weekend here and Marty arranged for her to spend a day on the GS Equities trading floor. 

On Sunday, we met Paul, Jen and the beautiful Jill at the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge and walked to Brooklyn.  Boy, it’s busy on a Sunday.  Bikes, people, strollers.  However it was a fantastic day and we got great views.  Here’s the two of us at the middle of the bridge  with Jen and Jill on the left.  Statue of Liberty in the background.  The classic Brooklyn Bridge shot.img_0632

Sunday the 4th was the Atlantic Antic 2009 on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.  They shut down maybe 20 or 30 blocks of Atlantic Ave and it’s just one huge street fair.  Food, shops, drink, everything there is outdoors for the day.  A really great New Yorky experience.  We drank beer, we ate food, we went to the old fashioned bus exhibition (!).  Jill was very keen on going on the bus.

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Then we ate bacon at a place which smoked its own bacon.  Mmmm pork products.

We said goodbye to Jen and Jill and Paul and headed back over to Chinatown where we had dinner for about 25p and it was the largest amount of food I’ve ever seen.  Since we were playing at being tourists, we just had to go to Times Square and look at the lights and take pictures and so we have the classic “thumbs up in Times Square” picture below.

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A selection of the rest of the pictures are in this Windows Live photoalbum.  I guess it isn’t as good as Flickr or whatever but seems to work for me.

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The monetary density of things – Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

 

The monetary density of things – Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

This is a fabulous article about how expensive things are per pound starting at flour and ending at antimatter.  A bit geeky but nice.

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More on offline blogging

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Lots of cool stuff in Live Writer

Ok, the first post worked faultlessly.  Absolutely perfect.  Last year, I spent ages trying to find some program which allowed me to write off line and then post text and pictures.  They were all crap.  I absolutely love Microsoft.  They’re even

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Offline posting

I’ve just downloaded Windows Live Writer from Microsoft and I’m using it to write this as an offline posting and then upload it.  Let’s try to insert a picture

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Some Reorganisation

I’ve completely re-organised the home page because it was just too messy and ugly. I’m now using the WordPress blog software as the home page. Messing around with themes at the moment to try to get something that looks good. Suggestions welcome.

I think I’m going to have to actually get in there and edit a theme. It’s just too much of a pain arseing around trying to fine one that looks reasonable.

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