Yes, OK, Britain has got talent

In the old days, approaching middle age

Amidst the streets of Redruth

Faster broadband is getting closer

Bring it on 24Mb here we come 2009(or there abouts).

Please spare a moment to visit the following post by Ken, an Internet friend of mine

Ken Hinckley's post Randy Pausch's Last Lecture

Sometimes the timing just comes together

Musing on writing and not writing

I like the idea of a deluxe one. What does it say about me?

UK Channel5's website has swallowed its self

In bed on a Monday morning

Slowly, slowly, catchee monkey

Thinking about changes on the blog

Some shots from St.Ives

 

 

The musings of the sick

MONTY PYTHON Lyrics - I'M SO WORRIED

http://www.mp3lyrics.org/9Tj7

I'm so worried about what's happening today,
In the Middle East, you know.
And I'm so worried about the baggage retrieval
System they've got at Heathrow.
I'm so worried about the fashoins today,
I don't think they're good for your feet.
And I'm so worried about the shows on TV
That sometimes they want to repeat.
I'm so worried about what's happening today,
In the Middle East, you know.
And I'm so worried about the baggage retrieval
System they've got at Heathrow.
I'm so worried about my hair falling out,
And the state of the world today.
And I'm so worried about being so full of doubt
About everything anyway.
[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/9Tj7 ]
I'm so worried about modern technology,
I'm so worried about all the things
That they dump in the sea.
I'm so worried about it, worried about it,
Worried, worried, worried.
I'm so worried about everything that can go wrong.
I'm so worried about whether people like this song.
I'm so worried about this very next verse,
It isn't the best that I've got.
And I'm so worried about whether I should go on
Or whether I shouldn't just stop.
I'm so worried about whether I ought to have stopped.
And I'm so worried because it's the
sort of thing I ought to know.
And I'm so worried about the baggage retrieval
System they've got at Heathrow.
I'm so worried about whether I should have stopped then,
I'm so worried that I'm driving everyone round the bend.
And I'm so worried about the baggage retrieval
System they've got at Heathrow.

MONTY PYTHON Lyrics - I'M SO WORRIED

BBC Adds listener tagging of Listen Again programmes

BBC - Radio 4 - All in the Mind

FIND LISTEN LABEL

Find and Listen to snippets within radio programmes. Read and create Labels with simple descriptions and keyword tags. The more you Label the more everyone can Find!

01 May 2007
24 April 2007
17 April 2007
10 April 2007
3 April 2007

I noticed that the BBC seem to have added a neat feature for listening to parts of programmes and helping fellow listeners at the same time by tagging. Once a person has tagged a programme, it would seem it is available to others.

An excellent service just made better! (For those in the UK I admit, but I believe that some programmes are now becoming available via BBC Worldwide - even if most probably for a fee).

What I did on my holidays

how to enjoy shopping

how to enjoy shopping
Originally uploaded by Phil(hellene).

Test ink post with Windows Live Writer

If you like chocolate you'll love this blog post

The picture says it all really: Learn to Eat chocolate with the Real Willie Wonka

BBC Horizon - How to make better decisions

Watching a show on BBC 2 in the UK on how to make better decisions by taking a more rational stance.


Hopefully the clips and info at the following link will work for everyone, which ever country.

BBC Horizon Tuesday 12 February 2008 Making Better Decisions

At last we are on the way to an electronic fountain pen

I have been looking for a pen that handled like a fountain pen but wrote electronically and, while this isn't quite it, things are getting closer (if only as a concept at the moment).

Yanko Design SMS and Email Pen

A new case for the tablet

I have been looking for a better way to care for my HP 2710p. I have a neoprene case that is fine to keep it dirt free but not padded against knocks. To increase the protection afforded by the wallet I have been wrapping my tablet in bubblewrap but this case become tedious and is not perfect.

On the way back from Devon I stopped for some water and a quick wander around a well known (in the South West)discount store called Trago. I wasn't looking for anything specific, just acting on the fuzzy feeling I get sometimes. (Yes, I know this sounds strange, it's something that comes over me most often when passing the library or ocassional charity shops. I don't have something specific in mind, just the feeling I need to look around and then I come across a book that I had been wanting for some time, say the next one to a series I have been reading, or related to a topic I have just been getting interested in.)

On walking through the door my route took me straight to a rack on which a set of laptop cases hung. Being related to IT I naturally perused it. There were around 10 denim cases and 1 black waterproof laptop case. The single black case offered padding, straps to allow the laptop to be run in the case, a rear port access flap and it was just big enough for the HP 2710p. A second need that I had was a way of carrying the tablet power lead without it tangling with other items in my backpack. Alongside the black case was a small black neoprene case, just the right size to store the powercable and a couple of other USB related cables.

The make of the cases is Shoreline, not one I have come across before but the case is excellent. Needless to say I bought them.

It holds the tablet in notebook configuration but I can use it in case in tablet form too. while my tablet is a wide screen version it just fits in the 12" Classic case.



In addition to the merits of the case it comes with free basic membership to StuffBak an equipment refund service. I am not certain how well it works outside of the UK but it is a welcome option.

Visions of InkSeine (an Ink post using Sumocat's Build52)

Visions of InkSeine

Here is a collection of links* relating
to InkSeine (http://research.microsoft.com/users/kenh/InkSeine/index.html), for anyone like me who's
dying to get their hands on it to
try for themselves. No, not the program
itself (we all have to wait till 15 Feb.
2008 for that), but sites where you
can fuel the fires of fandom.

*mainly videos

InkSeine homepage (http://research.microsoft.com/users/kenh/InkSeine/index.html)

Gottabemolile InkSeine ink show Review (http://www.gottabemobile.com/GBM+InkShow+InkSeine.aspx)

Microsoft TipTalk video (http://blogs.msdn.com/tiptalk/archive/2007/11/13/microsoft-research-inkseine.aspx)(including Lucid
Touch)

CTitanic's YouTube Preview Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T697S--9Zyg)

Testing Ink-seine In [sic] A Samsung Q1 (http://www.metacafe.com/watch/979734/testing_inkseine_in_a_samsung_q1/)

Academic paper on InkSeine (www.dgp.toronto.edu/~sszhao/paper/CHI07_InkSeine.pdf)(pdf)
(from Shandong Zhao's webpage)

Twelve Days of Ink Seine (http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/alpineinker/archive/2008/01/22/twelve-days-of-inkseine.aspx)
(Ken Hinkley's blog)

Gottabemobile InkSeine vs Journal vs OneNote (http://www.gottabemobile.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=4940&KW=inkseine)
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Somewhere over the Rainbow

Somewhere over the Rainbow

We watched one of my
favourite types of programme
tonight. I am rubbish when it
comes to property issues, but do
enjoy seeing people looking over
places and imagining what it must
be like - the moving, new experiences,
opportunities - exciting stuff.
Most of all I like the foreign property
shows. We are both beginning to
think that it would be a nice idea
to live abroad for a while, (well
more that Cathy is catching up
with me). It was a series of things
that brought us to this point, the
dark winters, growing unrest, people
seem to have the time for each
other and themselves, all sorts really.
We are not ignorant of the equivalent
pressures one can face abroad, we
have friends who have lived in two
different countries, though there is only
one way to truly "know" and that's to
experience it.

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Posting with Build52 for the first time

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This is an experiment in Ink Blogging using Windows Journal, Flickr
and Sumocat's Build52 (http://www.markandtanya.us/scribbles/B52v2.html), (Oh and also the Snippet Tool to grab
an image of this text.

I want my Ink blogging to be as straightforward as possible,
but I also need to think about useability for readers. Having links
that are clickable in the Ink would be a great improvement.

I also need to send a shout out to RevMakMak for his most helpful YouTube video tutorial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHEIxc-vH_Y), albeit on an earlier version of Build52.

Determined to ink blog

A new era in my blogging history