omg, my Pi has been shipped from Element 14. Farnell just pinged me an email saying it’s been shipped. No tracking number yet, but will keep refreshing. I’m guessing it’s a Monday delivery now as it’s Friday today. Why do people always ship things on Fridays!!!??? Exciting times. More will be posted…

What is it with councils that they have to follow the line of ‘We must build more and more houses’? Where I live, the town has expanded relentlessly in the last thirty years. My trip to work takes more than twice as long as it did twenty years ago because of the sheer volume of…

Well I spent bloody ages, on several occasions too, looking for how to make my wireless doorbell push switch unit work with the chime part after changing the batteries! It seems they lose their pairing information instantly and so need to be paired in some way. I tried to guess the method, and as it…

This is Henz, or Henry to give him his full name. He was a stray and had lived in the area for a long time. I know this because he was the ‘ghost’ cat that constantly crept in and stole our previous moggy’s food. The first we usually knew of him was the sound of…

I love this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk9EBOOAYiU One day (ha ha) I will adapt my camera to take some tilt shift photographs. Amazing

Well, I am an utterly obsessed Radio 4 listener. I will not sit in a room without it on, will not carry out a task without it on. Those near and dear to me have just had to get used to the fact as it will never go away. I’m sure I’m not the only…

This seems like a superb idea. When I began in computing, indeed when I later came to teach it, we were learning/teaching programming. Every home computer was basically there waiting to be programmed. Loading a purchased game onto it was a sideline activity. ICT in schools does not teach programming as far as I know,…

Seems to me the Top Gear presenters should have mentioned another stereotypical feature of Mexicans that we have not noticed before. Clearly they have no sense of humour either! (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12361790) Stereotypes have been the source of many of the worlds funniest jokes. If you can’t laugh at yourself then what can you laugh at? Lighten…

If you are thinking of renting a property and it’s being let by Seekers Lettings in Ashford Kent, there is something you might like to consider… When you leave, they will hang on to your deposit for months. I believe the law says it should be returned within ten days of vacation and agreement of…

A few days ago, I cut up a credit card. Quite a brave thing to do perhaps? Not really in that the one I cut up was not the one I meant to cut up! My new company Visa card arrived and I got round to signing it and getting the old one out to…