Category: Tim

I have found a couple of rather neat new toys, which I would like to share with you. Google has just launched Froogle UK which is a shopping comparison site, very much like Dealtime. Even better, you can now Google search your own hard drive, by installing Google Desktop – I have installed it today…

I came across this video about the future of messaging (funny). Also, how do Ikea come up with the names of their products? What was going through the brain of the person who came up with this Oh yeah, in case you hadn’t guessed, everyone has gone away and left me all on my own…

Ssh, keep it quiet, mate. If you have been following the press you will probably have read how this diamond geezer recently managed to shift a job lot of low mileage subs to a bunch of Canadians. Well, they come over here with their fat wallets, like it grows on trees, innit. All genuine, low…

All the best things are taxed, beer, fags…… I am wondering how this will be charged? Flat rate or sliding scale? Still, either way, hardly the End Of The World, is it?

Jax says, I’ve got to blog something from this morning’s ICT for under 2’s session. So here is a dog.

I have been meaning to post this for a while and now with the peace reigning here it seems like a good time to do it. In one of the villages near to us is a shop which proudly proclaims that it sells ‘Confectionary’. This mis-spelling is a member of a family which I find…

Next in my series of occasional rants: Another gem from the Beeb tells how “More than a quarter of state school pupils in England are receiving private tuition lessons, say researchers.” I liked this bit: “..And the widespread use of private tuition did not seem to be linked to any feeling that schools were not…

I am considering simply publishing the BBC Education RSS newsfeed and captioning it: “Reasons Why We Home Educate” Here are some of my current favourite articles:- Gangs who fail exams on purpose Gang culture in the north east of England means teenagers deliberately fail exams to "stay cool", researchers say. Rise in teenage truancy figures…

I have thought of writing this all down in detail, to help me clarify my own thinking but this is in response to Jan. When Jax first suggested HE I was dumbfounded. I didn’t know it was legal, possible or practicable. As soon as I started thinking about it, a number of things came into…