Hello and About

Hello 25 thingers… Hello everyone – So that this post stays on top of the list, it is my Sticky Post. To bring some sort of order, I’ve categorised most of my entries. Look…see…. just on the Right, down there… Posts by Categories! Oh and I’ve tagged most posts so you could choose to [...]

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Facebook’s New Terms Of Service:

“We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.”
ummm interesting… see this post  – http://tinyurl.com/ca4r2l – on consumerist.com
“You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right [...]

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A place for Twitter

I’ve found that I use facebook updates for friends (the confessional not professional) and Twitter has become a place for work connections, though I am following my son on Twitter also… yes he does know.. I’ve found lots of interesting e-learning links and discussions I wouldn’t have known about if it wasn’t for some of [...]

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#uksnow on Flickr

Following on from my Twitter link  Uk snow on Twitter/Google Earth

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Uk snow on Twitter/Google Earth

I found this on YouTube after following a Twitter Feed to first of all this blog post 
http://www.barnabu.co.uk/uksnow-twitter-animation-google-earth-5/
quote from above…. “As a knock-on of this there’s been a large amount of media buzz about the use of Twitter as a mob-sourced geo-mashup generator to show snowfall.  Twitter users have been posting the first half of their postcode, plus the amount [...]

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23rd Thing – Podcasts

I know I’ve downloaded,subscribed to and listened to Podcasts in the past but not for sometime, in fact looking at my iTunes it seems the last time I downloaded one was January last year and I haven’t listened to that. It’s not because I don’t like the idea, it’s more about the way I listen to things.
I’ve always liked audio books, especially while traveling and whilst working [...]

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bit more Library Thing

This is a comment on one of the other 25Thingers blog - jubaru -
“Have you tried bookcrossing.com? It’s an interesting way of passing books on… “
So I hope jubaru and Bryony don’t mind me pinching this comment…. but with around 2500 books in the house (a very rough count up when I first logged into Library Thing [...]

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22/25 YouTube

Thing 22 of 25Things@Huddersfield – YouTube – Thank you
Another chance to upload one of my current obsessions VinniPooh, I just adore these Russian animations and thanks to my sons (Russian) chemistry teacher I now have some of them on video along with some other less endearing, and not so well crafted, Russian animations for children.
This time with translation, even [...]

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21/25 library Thing

This is completely new to me – I’m sitting here at home surrounded by books, oh and computer stuff, the last book case I built was floor to ceiling on our first floor landing and is / was full from about 1/2 after the last screw went in, but I didn’t know, don’t know anything [...]

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20/25Things-Google Docs

Well I could just say…been there/done that/doing that….because I have, I am, and here’s why….
Tykes News is a not-for-profit magazine to promote folk and acoustic music in and around West Yorkshire, and, I’m one of a small team who edit and produce it, 900 / 4 times a year. Thats 900 copies not 900 people. [...]

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