Monthly Archives: January 2006

I like blogging. I enjoy sitting down and spilling my guts onto a clean white page. I like the way it makes me think things out, work things through, straighten out my head and my emotions. I’d go as far … Continue reading →

America, United States, Times Online, The Times, Sunday Times THE people of an isolated tribe in the Amazonian rainforest can understand geometry as well as American schoolchildren, according to research that suggests the branch of mathematics is deeply ingrained in … Continue reading →

I seem to be falling over Canadians (in the nicest possible way ) all over the place! There’s Ron and Andrea, whose blog I’m very much enjoying, and then both my batches of Ebay items have included one item to … Continue reading →

Not content with the whole birthday celebration lasting for days, Big topped it off by pulling her first tooth out this morning. Apparently the conversation went something like this: A: “hasn’t that tooth come out yet?” Big: “No.” A: “I … Continue reading →

Somehow Big has spread her birthday celebrations out over nearly 5 days, which has actually worked very well At no point has it been particularly overwhelming, and she’s been able to enjoy sharing it with lots of different ppl a … Continue reading →

or, Big learns kpl Well, come on, it was going to happen. Living in this house, with *way* more computers than we have ppl, and given that she’s already designed her first website, coding couldn’t be that far behind, could … Continue reading →

Pop over to the Zero Cash series of articles I’ve been going on, and on, and on, about, read the final article, then download the book. Go on And now I’m off to do some serious work on Codeplacidly. eta … Continue reading →

There, that feels better. I’ve been sat here all evening trying to write something on request, and I’m getting nowhere. Think I’ve churned out a couple of thousand words, shame nanowrimo is over. Oh well. It was a good day … Continue reading →

I said “we have a cabbage, an onion, some brussels sprouts and some very large potatoes. I don’t know whether that inspires you to anything.” He said “yes. I’ve got some bacon in the fridge.” Hohum.

I was feeling very tired this morning after a long day yesterday (which I do need to blog, because there were some really good bits ) so I snatched an extra half hour in bed. Then I headed up the … Continue reading →

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Yup, more new words. Almost had second thoughts about all of this when he came up with ‘why’ this morning, but quickly discovered that he can actually be satisfied – the chain of whys tends to be about 5-6 questions … Continue reading →

SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Communities | Hester Lacey meets the family who spent 2005 living in a experimental eco-house It has self-cleaning windows, a waterproof TV and a robot that irons shirts – but does this experimental eco-house feel like home? Hester … Continue reading →

I know that at least one member of the blogring has upgraded to WordPress 2.0, and I’ve been considering it myself. One of the features of WordPress 2.0 is the bundling of the Akismet, plugin, which wordpress 1.5.x users can … Continue reading →

Today Small has exploded into language. He started the day with his usual point and grunt, and has finished it with phrases. I’ve heard ‘marmite, hero, water, green, red, black, brown, white, purple, that, empty’ and probably a pile of … Continue reading →

There is a game known as ‘6 Degrees of Separation’ (from Kevin Bacon – no relation to the best of my knowledge). The way the game works is to try to connect 2 famous people via 6 associations. We have … Continue reading →