Disconnected

My MacBook is home and all fixed.  My couple of days being laptopless have been interesting.  Here’s what I learned: Old windows laptops suck I have a very old (8 years) laptop with a massive 500mb RAM and 20GB hard drive which lives under the bed.  It would have been as well staying under the Read More …

Musical Education – The playlist so far

So, here’s where I’m at with Ben’s Musical Education iPod.  Thanks for all your brilliant suggestions! I’ve put it in a PDF file because it’s pretty long!  Have a look and tell me what I’ve missed! musical-education

Musical Education

I’m going to give my 9 year old son my old iPod but I want to load it with some tracks to begin his musical education. So, what would you put on it?

holidays at home

We’re not going far this year so over the summer we’ve been enjoying the pleasures of trying to find things to do nearer to home to keep us and the kids amused.  We’ve popped down to Keswick a couple of times and had some great days out to Dynamic Earth, The Burrell Collection and Kelvingrove Read More …

my blog wordle

Wordle now lets you paste in a url or a blog, feed of site and creates a word cloud.  It’s always interesting to see what you really write about.  I have to say these aren’t the words I expected!  Sorry the picture is not great quality… they don’t let you save your wordle!!!

Journey Tracker?

It seems as though Nokia’s Sports Tracker is just a neat little training tool for runners and cyclists… however… Do you ever go on holiday, wander around, take some photos and then forget where you went and how you got there? This could be the tool for you! Sports Tracker records your journey using GPS Read More …

Nokia Sports Tracker

Got a Nokia phone with GPS?  Go walking, running, cycling… and want to know how far and how fast you have gone?  Nokia have a very nice beta of Sports Tracker, a training management site like Nike + which uses the GPS capability of phones like the N95 and marries it up with a training Read More …