This challenge is nearly at its end. It’s almost fitting then that today we completed two Geocaching challenges. This post, like so many others, may well be dull to many people. Three caches were found today. The first was ZetaYgraeca – Challenge (GC4FXFR). This requires to find 26 caches in alphabetical order and on separate […]
Today at work was good overall. We have constant issues with ICT over in our little hut, and teaching it is always a little daunting. However, opening one file from the shared server on each of 22 laptops really shouldn’t have been the utter chore it turned out to be. The task I had given […]
I’ve now broken through the third of a year barrier. I keep saying it, but I am astonished at my staying power with this project. I’ve met me, I never finish anyth Today was a day for jobs. I tackled many of them, but I don’t really want to produce a list. Lists aren’t cool […]
Most of today was spent at a one year old’s naming ceremony and birthday party. I had never attended a naming ceremony before outside of a religion – I have been to Christenings though. As a service, it was very nice and it was lovely to be part of Esmé Mary’s official name giving! As a […]
When I saw the above headline, I had a Metal Sonic image in my head… however, since it is plastered all over the internet at the moment, as the related articles below show, there is some merit in this story which I saw on The Verge. A team of researchers thinks that small, spiked robots […]
Simply fascinating. This collection by Analytic Graphics Inc. shows real-time (updated every 30 seconds) positions of 13,000 satellites around the Earth. The positions come from a government-sponsored database which shows all satellites. You get the idea that our near-earth space is getting kind of cluttered don’t you? Play with a plug-in here.
Last June, Help My Physics placed some photographic film into a tin canister with a small hole punched into its side. The tin canister was then attached to a clothes pole in their back garden and left. This afternoon I fetched the canister and took the photographic film out. My son John scanned the photographic […]
There’s something about winter. I hate the season, it’s far too cold to be a useful period of the year. But it does create some wonderful imagery. Here are 8 such photos.
It’s not often I get involved with conspiracy theories, but this is an intruiging one. In short, an odd image has been found by this guy on Google Maps, sparking a debate about what the truth could be. Poring over satellite images of China on the free Google Earth service, he came across a strange […]
