If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Christmas has begun. Last night there were four parties to choose from but, having done four in one night once before and then realised I was no longer in the first flush of journalistic youth, I skipped three and […]

After weeks of backwards and forwards letter-writing with Sky, we turned to the web and the ‘Instant Answers Online’ tool. Simple question - how do we look at our bill online? Sky wasn’t so sure:

We tried several variations, but it was no more helpful than the telephone support centres, the letters we’ve sent or received […]

London Grid for Learning is, according to its own site,
‘…a consortium of the 33 Local Authorities which provides a filtered broadband connection, network services, a common learning platform, online content and support communities for all schools across London.’
So, basically, schools across our nation’s capital trust it to mediate on their behalf, blocking out nasty sites, […]

I had a lovely day on Saturday. I went here.

Warning: The following contains significant spoilers.
The Standard calls me up from time to time, and asks me to write apparently spontaneous missives for their letters page. It’s not as simple as it sounds, as they are usually after a particular slant, and so the letter gets passed backwards and forwards between me and them for […]

Well, technically her birthday was earlier in the week, but that’s no good for celebrations, so she came over this weekend, arriving with Dan on Friday evening and staying right through.
So, Friday night I knocked off 10 minutes early and headed to the station to find all the trains delayed and full. Not entirely surprising: […]

…and this one is Veliko Tarnovo, the city of the Tzars. It was the capital of Bulgaria once. Now it’s just a beautiful hill-top town.

This one is the House of Spies in Bucharest, Romania.

Here’s another mini world. This time it’s Trakai Castle in Lithuania.

Chris of the Phin directed me towards the technique for making mini worlds from your photos this week. He’ll be writing it up for MacUser, but in the meantime I’ve been playing around with the technique. Here’s a little world made from the Pont du Gard in Provence.