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Last month Google hosted the first of its Google I/O conferences in San Francisco. I’d like to report that I was there, but I wasn’t (although I did watch the keynote the day after it was given). The video recordings of the speakers (hosted on YouTube) and their slides (mostly shared on Google Docs) that have been on-line for a few weeks now. With term finally over, I can become a virtual conference delegate and today was my first chance to catch up with some of the more interesting talks....

More travels with my bike … this time a swift 15 minute ride to Verdi’s at Mumbles for an espresso after dinner. Sunny day (not many of those this June) and lovely views over the Bay towards the University, Swansea and Port Talbot. [](http://picasa.google.com/blogger/)

Following on from Chris Hall’s discovery of Wordle, here’s the Wordle-art tag cloud for my del.icio.us bookmarks. Interestingly this indicates that I’m a typical geek (look at the size of the programming and development tags). Interestingly my courses EG-259 and EG-146 (both on Web Development) feature largely. I’m also apparently keen on the Web and self-improving tutorials! Of course these are only my public tags!

[](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bnNGgqRugY/SF690u0DyfI/AAAAAAAACiY/k3QrN4aeNJA/s1600-h/IMG_0006.jpg) Took a trip up [National Cycle Route 43 ](http://www.sustrans.org.uk/default.asp?sID=1099392474390)from Swansea to Pontardawe and back. It was a very windy day and the last 3 miles along Swansea bay was into the wind and a bit of a killer. In other news, my wife Renate got a puncture and had to push her bike home from the Liberty Stadium while I went on ahead to cook the dinner. Puncture repair kit will be next on my shopping list (some would probably say it should have been first)....

After today’s *lunch and learn* session on [Web2.0 at the Chalkface](http://swansea-learninglab.blogspot.com/2008/05/swanevent-lunch-learn-web-20-at.html), Paul Latreille inspired me to have another look at [Netvibes](http://www.netvibes.com/). I’ve been playing with it on and off since I got home this evening and I’ve launched another version of [my life online](http://crispyj2.blogspot.com/2008/05/stalk-me.html) as a Netvibes public page. See [www.netvibes.com/crispyj](http://www.netvibes.com/crispyj) for more. Come on over and be my friend. [](http://www.flickr.com/photos/51214457@N00/2571254960) My new public “stalk me” page on Netvibes Not sure which of T[umblr](http://cpjobling....