Random Thoughts
Very surprised to find I was seated in the “entertainment” carriage on my journey to Taunton today. Entertainment on long train journeys used to be provided by snogging teenagers or dribbling grannies, but now First Great Western has airline-style video screens on the seat backs. Mains sockets were also available at each seat for your [...]
As Jeanette is in middle of creating a cookbook at the moment I thought I’d list some places you can get a book printed (obviously this is for short runs) Useful site: www.thebookstore.co.uk (contains information about self-publishing) List of 20 sites that offer self-publishing
Users of the Amazon Kindle can now ‘lend’ their books to other Kindle users, it was announced today. The new feature allows e-books bought for the Kindle platform to be lent out for 14 days, delivered by email and springing back to their owners automatically after the period is up. The books can also be [...]
I’ve started work converting my fathers spreadsheets of our family ancestry into electronic (and searchable form). There’s been a huge amount of interest and development in online tools for tracing genealogy over the last 10 years, indeed it’s something the internet was almost made for. Unfortunately so far, little of the digitised data is freely [...]
Walking back to Waterlook station from Chinatown, after our weekly Chinese School trip, we crossed Hungerford bridge and I took this shot with my phone camera.
I don’t know who first came up with the idea that when the clocks go back at the end of British Summer Time that “you get an extra hour in bed”. They certainly didn’t have children. For us it was an hour less in bed. The kids still woke up at their usual time – [...]
There’s something very John Majorish about the National Trust. Good to see they keep to the traditional (and proper) naming for their conveniences.
At a recent conference in Brussels I came across some unusual objects, the purpose of which I wasn’t too clear on. Can you work out what these are for? Please use the comments, and I’ll update the captions when we discover what these things are. You can click on each photo for a closer look.
Didn’t someone tell Acer that most of Europe has banned smoking in the workplace? This new desktop PC has a handy container at the top, with lid that would do the job just right.
