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  • Life in Spain under lockdown

    Life in Spain under lockdown

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    Today is April 14th 2020 and it is our 32nd day under the Coronavirus lockdown orders here in Spain.   I thought I’d paint a little picture for you of how life has been for us since the state of emergency was declared by the government on March 14th. Spain has one of the tightest…

  • Why are Salesforce hiding the emissions of their cloud?

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    The lack of transparency from Cloud computing providers is something we have discussed many times on this blog – today we thought we’d highlight an example. Salesforce dedicates a significant portion of its site to Sustainability and on “Using cloud computing to benefit our environment”. They even have nice calculators and graphs of how Green…

  • Friday Green Numbers round-up 07/09/2010

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    And here is this week’s Green numbers: Obama commits nearly $2 billion to solar companies President Barack Obama, under pressure to spur job growth, said on Saturday two solar energy companies will get nearly $2 billion in U.S. loan guarantees to create as many as 5,000 green jobs tags: obama solar power […]

  • 15 Twitter tips for beginners

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    A friend of mine has just set up a Twitter account so I wrote him an email with some instructions on how to get the most from it. Thinking some of the advice might prove useful to others, I genericised it and re-posted it here. Dunno how well you know Twitter – if I’m teaching…

  • We are off to the beach!!!

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    Tom Raftery
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    Photo Credit technokitten We have been in Spain for nearly two weeks now. Most of the boxes and bags are unpacked. We have a phone line, gas, broadband, mobile and electricity accounts in our names and we put a deposit on a car (a Prius). It has been busy. The most difficult thing to deal…

  • In Spain at the minute

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    I’m in Spain at the moment. I flew over here on Sunday for my brother-in-law’s wedding. All good. However, this has been a nightmare journey. I woke up on Sunday morning with a temperature of 38.8C. And Tomás, our four year old, had a temp of 38. We managed to get the kids and bags…

  • In-car GPS units

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    I drove to Dublin on Saturday. I had a couple of small jobs to do and I was going to the Blogger meetup in the Market Bar afterwards. Now I don’t know Dublin well at all so I was mighty relieved when a friend offered me the loan of a Sony GPS unit for the…