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State of play on 12th April After a 2-week pause, we have received some photos from Antonio showing the state of play at the building site. Ruth is pleased to see that the pool has now been concreted, and we hope they successfully removed the soil that had been washed into the pool . . . → Read More: The latest photos of the site in Xàtiva
Typical Monday agoogleaday puzzle Google is running a series of puzzles at agoogleaday.com over the next months, which can be solved if you know how to use Google to help you. If you get stuck, you can click on “Show Answer” below the puzzle, and Google explains what you needed to search for. . . . → Read More: Learn how to make better use of Google
2011-03-22: View of the terrace and the lounge walls Last week, Antonio wrote to say there wouldn’t be any photos of progress on our house-project because it had been raining so much that no-one was working on site on the Tuesday, so the site meeting for that week had been cancelled. Also, that . . . → Read More: State of play towards the end of March
Realtime quake map of Japan Paul Nicholls in Christchurch, New Zealand, has produced a continuously updating map showing the location and depth of the quakes which have struck Japan since the magnitude 9.0 quake on the 11th March 2011. Today (17th March), there were 34 quakes, including one measuring over 6.0 on the . . . → Read More: Map showing the quakes in Japan While searching the internet for information on the current crisis in Japan, I stumbled across an interesting press release from Reuters – it seems that a US-led research team thinks it has found the lost city of Atlantis in southern Spain in the Doñana National Park, which is just north of Cádiz. Their . . . → Read More: Lost city of Atlantis found?
Recipe Search on Google I just noticed – Google has added a recipe search item to their home page. You can filter the results by ingredients, cooking time or by calories. To get included in the results, sites need to tag their recipes using rich snippets. Rich snippets can also be . . . → Read More: Rich Snippets – Google recipe search
Microsoft: Encourage Internet Explorer 6 users to upgrade Aggressive “dissing” of your own product. Microsoft has set a goal of getting the proportion of Internet Explorer 6 users reduced to 1% and is actively advising people to stop using it. Currently, around 12% of internet users, mostly in Asia, are still using . . . → Read More: Microsoft: Friends don’t let friends use Internet Explorer 6
The new look for IHArchitects.com Having just reworked the content and given a mild update to the appearance of Richard and Simon’s web site in January, we decided to ask Caroline Archer, the graphic designer who did their logo and corporate image, to give it the once-over. This time we have kept . . . → Read More: Complete make-over for IHArchitects.com
The quarry our dry-stone walls are coming from We visited the plot yesterday morning with Antonio. As well as seeing the progress on the site, Antonio and Pepe (who is the builder) told us that one of Pepe’s men was at the local quarry, about 5 km from the site, breaking stones to . . . → Read More: The quarry where our walls are coming from
La Mascletà – - Valencia 2011 La Mascletà – - Valencia 2011 We visited Antonio in Valencia yesterday and spent the morning at the building site. When we got back at just before two in the afternoon, the streets of Valencia were packed with people and Antonio needed to show his Spanish . . . → Read More: “Hostilities” break out in Valencia |
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