Optical Illusion

This is probably the best optical illusion I’ve ever seen. Link  

The Race….. no names, no pack drill!

Once upon a time there was a Red rowing team. This Red team agreed to hold an annual rowing race with a Green team. Each team would contain 8 men. Both teams worked really hard to get in the best shape. On the day of the first race, both teams were ready to win. The [...]

Microsoft Freebie!

For those who like to experiment with alternative operating systems, Microsoft have released their “Virtual PC” product as a free download. Here’s the link to it: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx

Travelling from the Island

Simon at Ventnorblog has posted a review of the recently started Sandown-London City air service. If you are strapped for time it looks like the best way to visit the North Island.

Test Post

This is a simple test post to see what the new “Windows Live Writer” is like. The picture is a scan of an old photo of my paternal grandfather, included to test this new interface. Seems very easy to insert photos etc. we’ll see what the real blog output looks like! Hmm…. took a fair [...]

Garden Photos

Finally got around to adding a few pics of the new garden. They were taken as I wandered from the back of the house to the end of the garden, a couple of the view over the back fence, then back to the house and around to the front. Garden – a photoset on Flickr

Nice little project

Found this today on my old friend Boing Boing. Read the warnings at the bottom of the article before letting your kids loose on it though.

Back on line……. at last!

BT finally got their act together today and delivered a brand new “ipod style” Home Hub. Everything seems to be working OK despite the install routine loading a stack of Yahoo junk onto my PC (that’s now been deleted). Speed seems to hover around 4Mb/s for download and 488Kb/s for upload most of the time, [...]