I went to the lake district last summer and took quite a few pictures and have never got round to posting them on here and so now i am doing it.

These are the pictures that i took from Billinge lump on monday morning. The last two images are a couple of HDRs that I have made

A new application hit the Android market today called Wordpress and this is a specially one because it now means that I can now write blog posts on the move like I am doing at this minute.
The application itself is very nice and covers all of the most used features of the desktop admin page. I can add new posts and edit older ones. I can also save drafts that I can finish writing some time later. Comments are also very easy to moderate and overall it is very similar to the iPhone app.
There is however one major problem and this isn’t the application’s fault and is instead an Android problem and that is the keyboard. At a reasonable typing speed, something at which an ipod touch/iphone would not struggle with, the keyboard seems to lag quite a bit and as a result symbols and full stops keep being put in where I do not want them and so I really hope the keyboard is an area which HTC improve in the coming 2.1 update.

I got my new Nikon 5000 and here are the first proper images that I have took with it. Going to test it out over the next few days and then will hopefully write a review some time this week

With the IEE right around the corner now I though I would share this gallery and it is very interesting the points that the guy makes.

http://www.ski-epic.com/amsterdam_bicycles/

I woke up this morning to find 6″ of snow on the ground and I do have to say that I have never seen snow so deep and after the “look it’s snowing lets go out and play” feelings had worn off I started looking around and found out that today’s weather could be here to stay. For a few days at least

The Arctic Oscilation (AO) is a pattern of changes in sea level pressure in the Arctic and over the Azores. During positive fluctuations there is low pressure over the Arctic and high pressure over the Azores causing droughts in the Med, warmer than average temperatures over much of europe along with rain in northern parts of the UK and Scandanavia. Durring negative fluctuations however there is high pressure over the Arctic and Low pressure over the Azores bringning cold arctic air to northern europe, drier conditions to the UK and cold arctic air reaches southerly latitudes in the US & Canada.

Take a look at the graph below. This graph shows a 3 month moving average for the AO and you can see at the end of 2009 there is a large negative fluctuation.

This is then corroborated by what we are see. Heavy snow falls have blighted the UK for the best part of a month now. In new york, Washington and Phillidelphia places have been inundated with more than 2 foot of snow in places.

The thing is though no one knows how long it is going to last. From the sites that I have read to gather this information they recon that they snow could be here for anywhere between 1 week to 2 but looking at the BBC weather forcast simulation it shows that the country could start warming up again by the weekend.

In the mean time we’ll all just have fun in the snow.

I was thinking part way 2008 when a song came on the radio (can’t remember the song though) and I thought to my self when did I first listen to the song, when did I fall in love with it. And with that idea, at the end of last year I made a playlist of all the songs that meant something to me in 2008.

Now the only rules of the playlist is that you have to start listening to it that year. It doesn’t have to have come out that year but you have to have started listening it to in that year. And as a result it can’t then be in any playlists in years to come. The final rule is that the playlist can be no more than 30 tracks long

So we have my 2008 playlist

And this is my 2009 Playlist. The links on the titles are to youtube videos for those that don’t know the songs

So what does this prove. I have a shit taste in music but as someone once said to me “quality of music is how the listener judges it” and that is why I think these tracks are awesome and I hope you like them as well.

Using this data set I have made up two proportional circles

This one is for Ash Manor Secondary School

And this one is for Ash Grange Primary School

Here is the link to a presentation that I did about sustainable Future for Cycling

DfT report

My powerpoint Presentation