A superhero for the average home?

marypcb got a book catalogue in the post this morning featuring a DIY book called Captain Competent and the Toolbelt of Power.

It makes a certain sense - the Romans had household gods, we get household superheroes. "Mutatis mutandis", as the great Cato Maior probably said...

Hidden places under the cliffs

Driving back from Dover yesterday I took a little diversion off the bustle of the A20, diving down the steep tunnel through Shakespeare Cliff to Samphire Hoe.



It's hard to believe that this beautiful piece of chalk land was once under the sea - as it's the site of the chalk marl spill from the Channel Tunnel. Now landscaped and restored, it's a quiet, wild space, full of wild life (including adders) and all sorts of rare plants, while step chalk cliffs rise up over your head...

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Google brings iPhoto to the PC

Google recently added another string to its bow when it bought Picasa - an iPhoto-like tool for Windows PCs. It'll search and catalogue your images, and sort them into a timeline, so you get to see them in the order they were taken - and sorted into albums based on the directories you use. It'll catalogue images as soon as they're loaded onto your PC, and also gives you basic image editing features.

It's also free.

I quite like it.

Shaping up for summer

Maybe not quite as drastic as lproven, but I have cut off the ponytail and gone for a number two buzz cut up the back and on the sides...