Godfrey's Hobby Blogs: Writing for both Pleasure and Profit!!!

Among of my main hobbies are reading (and writing) fiction and non-fiction works; watching French movies (I am fluent in basic French from living and working in Geneva and Paris); fortnightly visits to Odeon and Cine World cinemas to see blockbusters; watching TV documentaries on science, travel, history and geography subjects such as on Discovery, National Geographic, Animal Planet, Quest and Yesterday TV documentary channels etc; reading about human evolution; cooking delicious food from scratch; exploring, tinkering, hacking, rooting, jail-breaking Android phones / iPhones and building simple computer programming database app projects with SDK tools for X-code (iPhone), PhoneGap(Javascript ) and Eclipse (Android). I take each one here and use my writing skills to blog about them in detail.

Welcome to Godfrey's Hobby Blogs, free to read and enjoy!

Part 1. A Briton's view on French Cinema
What so special about movies with French Stars?
This is a blog about French movies. I caught the French movie bug after my time living and working in Paris, after working in nearby Geneva between 2003 and 2005.
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Part 2. Library World Records : Online Companion
This is a free online addendum for my latest reference book. The first edition of this reference book began as an unfinished manuscript back in summer 2002 and it was finally finished and then published in summer 2004 in the USA. A second edition was published in 2009. With 398 pages and 136 photographs, the 3rd edition (2017) has over 500 amazing facts about ancient and modern libraries, books and manuscripts. It took me over 8 months to research and write the book then travel all over Europe (as well as trips to Nigeria, Brazil, Singapore and Turkey) to take photos for the reference book..
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Part 3. Timeline of Mankind
This is a very very long fascinating timeline of human evolution came from the various data I have been collecting for 10 years, while working at the United Nations WHO Library in Geneva and UNESCO in Paris, between 2003 and 2005. In the old magazines section of the library one day during my lunch break, I came across an old January 1988 issue of Newsweek magazine. It was about somebody called Mitochondrial Eve. All 6.7 billion people alive today have inherited the same Mitochondria DNA from one woman who lived in Africa about 200,000 years ago; she has been called Mitochondrial Eve. It was her descendants who were among the second wave of modern humans who left Africa to populate the rest of the world. She was, by one rough estimate, our 10,000th-great-grandmother. This is an ongoing scientific blog I began in 2012, the research work goes back to 2003.
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Part 4. Remembering 1970s Britain: a personal perspective This is a small blog about my early boyhood experiences living in London in the 1970s.
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Part 5. 50 Cool James Bond Things about the Samsung Galaxy Note
A phablet that does it all. This is gadget blog I wrote in 2013.
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Part 6. 10 Important Things Nelson Mandela Has Taught US
During his long remarkable and extraordinary life, I have learnt 10 important things in life. This is a small blog about some of Nelson Mandela's best quotes about life.
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Part 7. Africa: Before Columbus
The fascinating story of the exploration of Sub-Saharan Africa before the discovery of the Americas in 1492. This is an very long historical blog I began in 2008, while in Lisbon, Portugal for an unrelated book project.
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Part 8. History and Facts about Books and Libraries
A very long fascinating story of books, manuscripts and libraries from the stone age to modern times.
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Part 9. Programming With Javascript
I found time to develop a powerful database app with Javascript programming tools, way back in 1995 while a MSc student at City University of London.
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Part 10. The Geneva Incident
Brief blog on my brand new exciting novel I am finishing at the moment on weekends.
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Part 11. The Info Connect Library and Information Science Directory
In 1995, when the Internet was still very young (back then it was Netscape web browser) and Google not yet invented, I began to compile a list of all library-related websites that where begining to show up. By 2005, I had compiled over 1,930 websites. By 2010, I decided that with Google now advanced and Wikipedia available as well, there was no need to update the directory any more, so since 2010 I no longer update the website anymore, but you can still enjoy using it.
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Part 12. Timeine of Computer Networks and Data Communication
This is brief look at arrival of online databases and online services and computer data communications. I am in my second year doing BSc in Computing. I previousy have a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of London KCL and a MSc in Information Science from City University London. For over 20 years I worked as a writer and science and medical librarian in London, Paris and Geneva and from 2014 I am now a full-time blogger, writer and ghostwriter. The subjects I write and blog on are science, information technology and reference. I want to increase my detailed knowledge of information technology hence my the reason for my urrent degree studies. In my current BSc degree at Arden university. my core fav subjects for which I enjoy a lot are on web technology, online databases, computer data communications and computer networks. .
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I love writing, and will upload my other 9 works when I have the time.

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