Steve Hooker's Radio: kids, war, blogs, gadgetsA welsh man in the wrong country on his way home. Blogging about my kids, blogging, blog biz, war and politics.Big John at GOWM- March 14, 2005 Here's the dude, John Garland, in front of his cabinets. Due to the recently announced cuts in the civil service, it sounds as if there will be no IT department. It'll probably be outsourced. But don't tell any one, because it'll scare the horses. What do you mean Steve Well, most of the civil servants are ex pen pushers, ink and quill pens! And not very computer literate. Having someone in the building who could come down and help has helped. Telephoning someone to try and...http://www.cybersaps.org/2005/03/14.html#a2086 Brad's pouting kisses- March 14, 2005 It's going to have to be my mission in life, to capture the definitive picture of Bradley and his pout as he goes to kiss someone. Here he's relaxed it for the photograph.http://www.cybersaps.org/2005/03/14.html#a2085 BT: Superfast broadband to trickle out in U.K- March 10, 2005 Initially, just 2,000 lines in London and Strathclyde, and these will be limited to employees only. The rest of the UK, and only those close enough to an exchange, will have to wait till the 2nd half of 2005, which means probably Christmas. I'm on Telewest, 4Mb. They could up that to 8Mb in a blink of an eye, and will surely top BT for marketing reasons. So, that'll be good. Also, good that broadband is becoming so ubiquitous.http://news.com.com/Superfast broadband to trickle out in U.K./2100-1034_3-5604464.html Something new, something good- March 10, 2005 I don't know why Google news is still in beta, probably they are worried about the legals of scraping so many news sites. But, they've added a customisation section, I've deleted sport, since this isn't news in my book and added a blog section. That is, I can now do searches in news papers the world over for references to the word 'blog.' This reminds me of Netscapes RSS news page back in '98 or was that '99 Where you could add feeds from those who had RSS feeds, which wasn't...http://www.cybersaps.org/2005/03/10.html#a2083 A day in the park- March 9, 2005 Just some pix from the weekend's trip to Telford Town Park. We went on Saturday to feed the ducks, but it was bitterly cold with horizontally blown snow. Sunday was much better with warm sun and blue sky. Now I have a neat-o video camera I'd like to add more videos to my blog postings, but all I'm getting from MPEG4s of the first screen are black screen grabs, so looks like I need to convert them to MPEG2s first, which rather defeats the point....http://www.cybersaps.org/2005/03/09.html#a2082 Kids drawings- March 9, 2005 I love my kids drawings, and the stories behind them. Esme's always drawing princesses. Well, she wants to be one and is always dressing up as one. Brad, he likes dinosaurs though they frighten him and he's had a few bad dreams about them This is a fireman, fire engine (top, right&151;see the four wheels and ladder on the roof), and fire below. By Bradley. Two dinosaurs. Left one a flying dinosaur. By Bradley. A self portrait at Brad's...http://www.cybersaps.org/2005/03/09.html#a2081 |