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

After a recommendation off the crave podcast I downloaded dolphin browser from the Android market late las night with high hopes that it would replace the standard browser.
Now don’t get me wrong, the Android browser works as it should but the way HTC have skinned it for sense means that the browser is full screen so you don’t see the status bar at the top. Now you’re probably thinking no big deal but it means that as you’re browsing you don’t know when the signal drops out or slows down, which it seems to do regularly on T-Mobile. Anyway on the the dolphin browser.
Needless to say the browser is not full screen so you always know how fast you are connected at. Dolphin also brings gestures so push a button at the bottom of the screen and a window pops up and you can draw on. For example draw an m and you add the page to your bookmarks and there are lots of other shortcuts that you can customize gestures for however I have yet to find out how to add gestures to specific bookmarks but if they add that it would be awesome.

Flash also works pretty well having sat in maths today and listened to a couple of billy Joel pieces (that I hadn’t heard for a while) off youtube.

Overall it is a well built application with an extensive feature set and settings list and a pleasure to use, much better than the standard android browser.

Just thought i would post my thoughts on the social network ban one week after it was implemented on the college computers
The computer room I am seems fairly busy with more people doing work rather than just sitting in front of Facebook yet it also seems that people are spending more time on websites that aren’t blocked.
That said, opposition to the ban seems to be calming down but we will have to see what is discussed at the next meeting.
That’s all for now, I’m cooking up another post which will hopefully be on by some time tomorrow

We have had a new kitchen fitted this week and the fire has also been installed here are the pics

Over October half term I went to london with the family and here are the best pics that I took while there

UPDATE

Now that I have uploaded the photos, you can see all of them here, I think this one has to be my favorite

As you can see, I have a new theme. I have spent a bit of time making it and obviously it is now ready to show the world

I have also been to london and took a few pictures. Here are my favorites so far…