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When I reached my secondary school, I joined the school stamp club. Not because I was particularly interested in stamps, but I think it gained me an early lunch pass on the day the club met, and that was a valuable commodity to have! It also entitled me to go on the annual outing to [...]

The snowfall in the early hours of Thursday 5th February was well worth capturing in this timelapse film (nb no sound).

A post New-Year break in Paris, flying between Birmingham and Paris CDG with CityJet/Air France. Despite delays caused by snow the previous day, the visibility on the return flight was excellent and the route passed plenty of familiar places, especially on the direct approach into Birmingham.

Courtesy of Wordle and Tweetstats, here is a “cloud” of some of the words most commonly used since I started ‘tweeting’ properly back in October.

A playlist for Advent and Christmas…

Every once in a while I complile an iTunes playlist to try and explore and listen to some of the tracks in my iTunes library that would otherwise just languish there unheard. I have been using LastFM as a service, but recently came across iLike.com that allows me to share these playlists.
Below is the November [...]

…by the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets…

I’ve been using the online notebook service Evernote since I came across a useful application for the iPhone in the summer that synchronises notes between desktop and phone quickly.

The latest version allows notebooks to be published, so my first attempt is the ‘cookery’ notebook, with clippings of a number of recipes that I stumbled upon [...]

From TED…

Another video from the TED goldmine- David Pogue on simplicity in software…