Today has been a mixed day. This morning we ran a series of races for the beginner scullers. They seemed to be happy, even the guy who managed to fall in three times. This afternoon i was building a den in the woods with mike’s kids (mike runs the army rowing course i’m hanging around). […]
Posting from scribe
Trying out scribe to post from the phone. So far so good but it could all in wrong when i hit send 😉
Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull Review
I usually cite Raiders of the Lost Ark as my favourite film and this week has been marked in my calendar for months as the time to see the new Indy film after a 19 year gap. Today I did and I’m still not sure what to think. So more after the cut.
Growing my vegetables
Here’s my veggies on April 13 And here they are on May 13. They’ve all survived, although I needed to put slug killer down, and are growing well. I’ve had a lot of rocket and lettuce todate, the rest I need to wait for. I feel really proud of my little veggies 😉
The Future of Newspapers
Kevin Anderson was speaking on a panel the other day about The Future of Newspapers. Regardless of what else is happening in the industry, if they keep doing things like this, I’m not sure they deserve a future. NML had a conversation with a Daily Mail reporter, which turned into an article about how she, […]
Classic Books I’ve not read
Maryam has a list of books from Library Thing – the list of the most unread books on people’s shelves. It’s actually a dynamic list based on tags, so the current list is not necessarily what she has recorded – but here’s my take on the current list. Bold are the ones I’ve read, italics […]
Game Camp London
Yesterday, the Guardian ran a GameCamp in London, helped a lot by Sony who provided the venue at their 3Rooms building in Shoreditch. By shear co-incidence, there was a Gamecamp in Toronto on the same day, the difference being that the London one was based on the BarCamp premise of a self organising day for […]