3 things I can teach – How to fix a bicycle chainHow to dance salsaHow to write a webpage 3 things I would like to learn – How to swim front crawl (need to think of some more!)

You still see the poor old bee floundering on the floor – dying of old age?  But apparently Western honey bees across the world are being hit by a mysterious condition whereby whole hives just suddenly die; no one cause is found, instead many different infections are found eg mites, fungus, nosema, even within the…

Never thought I would read the words "delivered safely into the hands of Hamas security forces" but there you go, Alan Johnston, the only remaining journalist in Gaza, has been released after months of captivity.  Last sighting was a tape of him apparently wearing an explosive belt.

My mobile has always underwhelmed me.  So much promise, so little actually achieved.  Have never managed to read or send an email.  Internet is excruciatingly difficult and slow.  All I can say is that I have managed to surf the net on my palm via my phone.  I keep hoping for a better phone that…

Anvar Khan writes in the Sunday Herald: (paraphrased, because I struggle to understand exactly what she means) We are now the fastest growing minority in the US and UK.  Yet we have only just been recognized in the census.  We are stereotyped as caught between 2 cultures, doomed to rejection by both.  Or as genetically…

Just read on Pocketfactory.com that Dell is pulling its Axim line of PDAs.  Also heard the Macreviewcast criticizing the new Palm Foleo, but I actually quite like the look of it.  So is the PDA dead, replaced by smartphones and cheap laptops? And eReaders? I'm not convinced.  Smartphones have small screens, so you wouldn't want…

Simon Fairlie, quoted on Transition culture, makes a good point.  We are aspiring to triple glazed, passively heated homes where air is circulated via a heat exchanger.  This is to sustain our current love of indoor environments at 19degC (an increase by 5 degrees over 10 years).  Which is good for old people, but is…

Cranes loom on Paradise street Train follows train Sandwiches cold in plastic Clothes cling thickly on skin The sound of my own thoughts is loud in my head I'm away from home without you Silent messages go back and forth From another boardroom, another pen i turn moments into memories Like sea glass to show…

Which is the database associated with the ID card system.  Have just read a lengthy, pretty technical document pointing out problems with the system.  To summarize: The Data protection act is all very well, but it didn't envisage one big database – it assumes lots of different databases for different purposes. In any case, Government…

What to do? I don't have a local Green candidate, and I'm pretty unhappy about detention of asylum seekers, ID cards, Trident, nuclear power, the M74 extension, megacasinos… Labour says they will invest in Life Sciences and other key industries. They will raise the school leaving age to 18yr, unless someone goes into a recognized…