I have for the last year and a bit been heavily involved in Galaxy Zoo. In today's Guardian there is an excellent article about the project, where I get mentioned quite a lot... I was interviewed for about an hour by the journalist.

Ok I will get round to posting something.

Two weeks ago watervole gave me a Bat detector for my Birthday ( Read more... )

watervole has mentioned the Great Tits, in their nest box at the front of the house several times. Yesterday several times one appeared at the hole for a few minutes and it was obvious they were going to fledge in the next day or so. This morning I was looking at the box when one appeared at the hole, looked around, squeaked a bit then took off - I ( Read more... )

Just to temeres on his toes, I went for a meeting this morning on Brownsea. The meeting was about 10:30, so I caught the 9:20 boat, giving me the best part of an hour in the hides. From the hide I saw a couple of Common Terns (#103) and a Snipe (#104) afterwards walking to the Villa for the meeting a Reed Warbler (#105). After the meeting, driving back ( Read more... )

A couple of bird reports, Yesterday on Brownsea there was a Common Sandpiper (#101) and today over the allotments 3 House Martins (#102) - I think this is early... I think this puts me ahead of temeres again.

I have been asked to post another of my recipes (I have cooked this several times in the last year ( Read more... )

Even here it snowed! About half an inch settled on roofs and plants, though none on the road.

I haven't reported recently, but recent additions have been ( Read more... )

When did you last use a floppy disc?

When was the last time you used a 5.25" floppy?

Did you ever use an 8" floppy?

Today I packed up all my 3.25" floppies and put them in a box in the loft.

Yesterday I threw out a box of 5.25" floppies.

(I did use 8" floppies in the distant past but never at home)

When I originally setup my wifi modem at home, I used channel 13 at the top end of the UK range. A couple of times visiting Americans had wanted to use our access, but could not change their Wifi settings to see channel 13 - so I decided to swap to a lower channel. Unfortunately this screwed up the security settings I was using and I could not ( Read more... )