The Calmsea Enquirer

The Irish have voted yes to the Lisbon treaty. At least they have been given the chance. Our “elected” representatives ratified it on our behalf. The one sure thing that comes from Ireland’s yes vote is that we are one step closer to the possibility of Tony Blair becoming the unelected president of the EU. [...]

I’m here with Andrew Roland and George Hannah at Teachmeet 08. We’re going to do a bit of a thing on the RM Asus miniBook.

We snapped this picture of Bob Geldof at BETT08 today. He was giving a key note at an event hosted by Integris and Groupcall.

It always seems to creep up on you – right after the New Year. No doubt this one will be bigger and better than previous ones although how it could be any busier than last year I don’t know. The RM stand will be the same but different. No green goblins, this year we’re in [...]

The dust has settled and SLF07 is behind us. I had a great time. Our Educational Update session on Wednesday was well received and the stand was really busy. On Thursday I had the unprecedented opportunity to take in a couple of seminars and a keynote. The highlight had to be Mick Waters keynote, it [...]

It was a great honour to be invited to be a Reading Champion at The Reading Bus in Aberdeen today. I spoke about what I do for a living, reading to my children and memorising song lyrics as a teenager. I had great fun. Hopefully the P6 pupils of Donbank Primary School got something from [...]

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I’ve managed to get my hands on one of these for a seminar I’m giving at SETT – The Scottish Learning Festival on September 21. First impressions are that it is a very nice machine. Centrino Duo and 1GB RAM make it fast enough, slot loading DVD is nice touch as well. The rotating screen [...]

Don’t really know much about football – I support Partick Thistle! Celtic are currently developing their new training facility at Lennox Castle. It isn’t so much landscaping, more terraforming that they are doing.
Anyway I’ve started a flickr photo set that will chart the development. find it here.
I’m hoping to keep it updated quite [...]

David Muir has this post over at his blog. He asks if we remember the arcane things we had to do to get hold of things like NCSA Mosaic. Oh yes I do. And any number of other browsers – Cello anyone? I remember using Gopher to download satellite images to take in to school [...]