Standing out from the crowd
The TED conference has a nifty networking system (powered by Intronetworks) that you're automatically plugged into once you're signed up as an attendee.
Once you've submitted a few details – what your values/interests are, what kind of person you are, what kind of people you'd like to meet at TED and so on, the website groups people around you according to things you have in common – the closer they are, the more you're (theoretically) alike.
Comforting, then, to see that there's a sizeable exclusion zone around yours truly, like I've dropped some kind of particularly eggy cyber-fart. Hmm…
On a sensible note, there's a nice pre-TED write up at Bruno Giussani's blog.
On a somewhat-less-than-sensible note, I spotted today that Destination Cycling are offering individuals the chance to ride the entire Tour de France route over 26 days in July this year. Wowser. I wonder if it's too late to write that into the training programme for the next expedition…
— Filed under Miscellany