Posts Tagged "Nbsp"

Who’s pushing you?

Posted by Ian and Steve on Jul 20, 2011 in Hints and Tips | 1 comment

Who's pushing you?

“Come to the cliff”, he said.

They said, “We are afraid.”

“Come to the cliff”, he said.

They came. He pushed them.

And they flew.

- Guillaume Appolinaire

Using the right tools …

Posted by Ian and Steve on May 6, 2011 in Hints and Tips | 0 comments

At first sight this looked far too complicated for me to fix.

I’ve mentioned our Dawes tandem in a previous post. The chain broke 5.5 miles away from home and we walked back. As soon as the chain had been repaired we went on the same trip again and, would you believe it, the chain broke again in exactly the same spot! Again we had to walk home because, despite my good intentions, I hadn’t yet purchased a spare link for the chain.

An afternoon in the City …

Posted by Ian and Steve on Mar 30, 2011 in Uncategorised | 0 comments

New iPhone/iPad app

I was sitting in front of the Royal Exchange, outside Bank Station in London, on a relatively comfortable wooden bench on a bright and warm afternoon waiting to meet a business colleague.

Behind me, on an equivalent bench, a man was screeching into his mobile phone, partly with enthusiasm and partly to offset the background traffic noise.

His conversation, intended to be private I am sure, resulted in him thanking the caller and then suddenly realising, in a fit of panic, that he needed to note down a contact number.

He held his phone against his jacket and called out “Anyone have a pen?”