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27 Feb 2010
Some years ago I wrote a brief blog about my attempts to find a rolling tobacco, broadly similar to Camel cigarrettes. Well the search continues. It's been going on for 30 years so I don't expect it to compleet any time soon, but I do feel I'm getting closer.
The USA web sites for roll your own afficionados speak very highly of Peter Stokkebye's Turkish Export. So I went on a quest to try and find a UK or European supplier. I drew a blank from the specialist UK online tobacconists. Even though some of them do carry other Stokkebye products, this was a typical response.
Now 4*300g is a substantial amount of rolling tobacco. And I'd really like to try more like 30g before committing.
I have found some USA sites who will ship to the UK, but inevitably, a Denmark made product shipped to the USA and then shipped back to Europe is pretty expensive. A $25 pouch ends up being more like $100 after shipping and tax.
I feel sure that somewhere in Europe there's a specialist supplier who can help. But Google is not my friend here. As a UK-English speaker it's extraordinarily hard to do searches for retailers based in Europe. You constantly get pushed back to either spam shopping search sites or American sites.
Stokkebye is part of the Villiger Group from Switzerland. However, the Stokkebye-Villiger website seems to be based in the USA and is not answering my queries.
The USA web sites for roll your own afficionados speak very highly of Peter Stokkebye's Turkish Export. So I went on a quest to try and find a UK or European supplier. I drew a blank from the specialist UK online tobacconists. Even though some of them do carry other Stokkebye products, this was a typical response.
I have asked the UK distributor of Peter Stokkebye to consider adding this to their stock list before but they say it isn't viable. It is on the website www.tobaccoonline.co.uk but their minimum order is 4x300g plus shipping
Now 4*300g is a substantial amount of rolling tobacco. And I'd really like to try more like 30g before committing.
I have found some USA sites who will ship to the UK, but inevitably, a Denmark made product shipped to the USA and then shipped back to Europe is pretty expensive. A $25 pouch ends up being more like $100 after shipping and tax.
I feel sure that somewhere in Europe there's a specialist supplier who can help. But Google is not my friend here. As a UK-English speaker it's extraordinarily hard to do searches for retailers based in Europe. You constantly get pushed back to either spam shopping search sites or American sites.
Stokkebye is part of the Villiger Group from Switzerland. However, the Stokkebye-Villiger website seems to be based in the USA and is not answering my queries.
30 Dec 2009
In response to this HellForLeather article.
I'll try not to have a moan about US-Centric thinking, but I can't help but think that electric motorcycles don't make a whole lot of sense there, while they make huge amounts of sense elsewhere. And I think at least part of this is the almost complete disapearance of the bottom end of the PTW (powered two wheel) market. Can you imagine people buying a C50-C90 cub or an Elite-125 scooter. Now go back to 1984 and Terminator. It seemed completely natural that Sarah Connor should go down to the neighbourhood store to buy some milk on a Honda Elite. That's exactly the usage pattern that makes complete sense for an electric version of the same thing. But as that store gets further and further away and is visited less often, it just becomes a damn sight easier to wheel out the SUV.
So how did PTWs stop being at least partly a utility and become exclusively a life style gadget? Maybe that's one big change that Electric could bring in turning one aspect of PTW use back into straight utility.
Now translate all this into urban and suburban living in Europe, South America, China, India with the electricity coming from wind and solar generators on the roof. The Electric PTW is now a big step up from bicycle or pedestrian leg power rather than a huge step down from a sports bike or a hog. Which perhaps explains why a search for electric bicycle on Alibaba returns 10,000 entries.
I'll try not to have a moan about US-Centric thinking, but I can't help but think that electric motorcycles don't make a whole lot of sense there, while they make huge amounts of sense elsewhere. And I think at least part of this is the almost complete disapearance of the bottom end of the PTW (powered two wheel) market. Can you imagine people buying a C50-C90 cub or an Elite-125 scooter. Now go back to 1984 and Terminator. It seemed completely natural that Sarah Connor should go down to the neighbourhood store to buy some milk on a Honda Elite. That's exactly the usage pattern that makes complete sense for an electric version of the same thing. But as that store gets further and further away and is visited less often, it just becomes a damn sight easier to wheel out the SUV.
So how did PTWs stop being at least partly a utility and become exclusively a life style gadget? Maybe that's one big change that Electric could bring in turning one aspect of PTW use back into straight utility.
Now translate all this into urban and suburban living in Europe, South America, China, India with the electricity coming from wind and solar generators on the roof. The Electric PTW is now a big step up from bicycle or pedestrian leg power rather than a huge step down from a sports bike or a hog. Which perhaps explains why a search for electric bicycle on Alibaba returns 10,000 entries.
17 Dec 2009
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Tonight (Friday 20 Mar) at about 5:30pm GMT we will be taking search down for 10 minutes or so. The rest of the site will be unaffected.
Overnight our upstream Internet link is undergoing maintenance between 3am and 5am GMT Sat 21 Mar. This should not affect Ecademy but there may be short periods of outage during this time. [from: JB Ecademy]
Overnight our upstream Internet link is undergoing maintenance between 3am and 5am GMT Sat 21 Mar. This should not affect Ecademy but there may be short periods of outage during this time. [from: JB Ecademy]
We're going to try to stream the London event tonight. The URL is here
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ecademy-tv
Video streaming by Ustream
[from: JB Ecademy]
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ecademy-tv
Video streaming by Ustream
[from: JB Ecademy]
We had an outage for about an hour this afternoon. This was caused by a small software problem on a critical server.
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. [from: JB Ecademy]
Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. [from: JB Ecademy]
Apologies for the outage on the web site this morning. We had both web servers fail at about 10:50 and back up at about 11:25.
We're currently working on trying to diagnose exactly what happened and to prevent it happening again. [from: JB Ecademy]
We're currently working on trying to diagnose exactly what happened and to prevent it happening again. [from: JB Ecademy]
The site maintenance over the last weekend went smoothly and I hope you're enjoying the much increased speed of the Ecademy website. We have two problems as a result.
Some people have been receiving email from the site that is dated December 2007. It seems we had a large queue of email that had been held. When that was copied across, the new email server finally delivered it. If you receive email notifications, particularly about subscription problems, that you weren't expecting then check the date. If the Sent date is very old, then simply discard it.
The main Contacts Search seems to have got out of step and some searches are not returning the data they should. This is currently being dealt with and should improve over the next day or so.
Julian Bond
CTO Ecademy [from: JB Ecademy]
Some people have been receiving email from the site that is dated December 2007. It seems we had a large queue of email that had been held. When that was copied across, the new email server finally delivered it. If you receive email notifications, particularly about subscription problems, that you weren't expecting then check the date. If the Sent date is very old, then simply discard it.
The main Contacts Search seems to have got out of step and some searches are not returning the data they should. This is currently being dealt with and should improve over the next day or so.
Julian Bond
CTO Ecademy [from: JB Ecademy]
We've now got Yahoo OpenID fully working to log into Ecademy.
1. Go to My Settings, Manage OpenIDs
2. Type in "yahoo.com" into the "Add a new OpenID" field and hit "Sign In"
3. After a moment and perhaps an intermediate screen, you'll be presented with a Yahoo screen asking if you want to log in to Ecademy.com. Click on the "Let Me In" button.
4. You're returned to Ecademy and your Yahoo OpenID is associated with your Ecademy account.
Now when you need to log in to Ecademy, the process is very similar.
1. Go to the login screen at Ecademy. Scroll down to the "Login with OpenID"
2. Type in Yahoo.com and click Sign in.
3. You're redirected to Yahoo asking if it's ok. Click "Let Me In"
4. You're back on the Ecademy home page and logged in. [from: JB Ecademy]
1. Go to My Settings, Manage OpenIDs
2. Type in "yahoo.com" into the "Add a new OpenID" field and hit "Sign In"
3. After a moment and perhaps an intermediate screen, you'll be presented with a Yahoo screen asking if you want to log in to Ecademy.com. Click on the "Let Me In" button.
4. You're returned to Ecademy and your Yahoo OpenID is associated with your Ecademy account.
Now when you need to log in to Ecademy, the process is very similar.
1. Go to the login screen at Ecademy. Scroll down to the "Login with OpenID"
2. Type in Yahoo.com and click Sign in.
3. You're redirected to Yahoo asking if it's ok. Click "Let Me In"
4. You're back on the Ecademy home page and logged in. [from: JB Ecademy]
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