Resume of the week to date

Well, it's Sunday and up to yesterday I managed 3 days at 8 miles a day, 2 in downpours visiting places, and today will be visiting Kays in Newton Stewart. Yesterday I got the pedometer working and did 16.2 km from Warden to Corbridge. That was a great local walk which I haven't done before, particularly nice by the river at the Corbridge end. (Photos may follow.)

In terms of social networking, I have managed to come to terms with getting the blog to work and editing it, and have got tweetdeck to work on 2 macs and an iphone, also sorted out how I am going to handle my email in the future. Updating the blog by email from the iphone including with attached photos is the easiest. However signals on the routes I have used are poor to non-existent. In one small coastal village there was no signal anywhere until I found a friendly naked wi-fi coming from somewhere which enabled me to make a quick call to summon a taxi using skype from the iphone! Brilliant and thanks. I also have been taking photos with my canon digital ixus but haven't been able to transfer the photos as I forgot the adapter. Photos are much better but hassle factor much increased. In one instance I re-uploaded the iphone photo later after retouching it in iPhoto.

The most significant other discovery was a podcast from This Week in Google (TWIG - see http://www.twit.tv/twig ). In episode 4 Kevin Marks is interviewed about his ideas about how twitter works (rather than "that it  works") - ie how people have appropriated the technology in a way unpredicted by the designers. Massively parallel human filtering of web content is I think how he describes it and I found not only his analysis but the whole podcast interesting. And his job history is interesting - quicktime - google - now a VP for BT. You can download the podcast from the site or subscribe through itunes for free.

And so to next week. I have decided to head off to Lyme Regis and the Jurassic / Limestone coast tomorrow, so if you live en-route I may pop in! I have decided to take the car and somehow juggle that, and thereby up my mileage and fascination opportunities.