blog.species5618.net http://blog.species5618.net The time has come to VENT my anger on the world Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:31:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Persistance of Stupidity (The Proof) http://blog.species5618.net/2010/03/08/persistance-of-stupidity-the-proof/ http://blog.species5618.net/2010/03/08/persistance-of-stupidity-the-proof/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:27:55 +0000 Species5618 http://blog.species5618.net/?p=467

A while I scribbled an article on ???persistence or stupidity??? a rough review on the effect of todays internet + a few friends and their ability to capture the moment when you do something really stupid and post it in the internet, youtube.com, epicfail.com, facebook.com is full of such precious gems of entertainment. Mind you it is nothing new, the tabloid press have been making millions of the odd photo or a knickerless or drunken celeb.
I too have various photos (on film, remember that !!) of my mates in our more outrageous years, so I am not immune. But appear to have got of lightly so far.
Not so for some friends of friends of friends on Facebook.com, where photographs of teenagers (just) can be seen smoking, in school uniform on school property. One can only assumed that this level of stupidity will stand them in good stead when they apply for their Darwin award in years to come.

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Sole Leaf, originally uploaded by species5618.

]]> http://blog.species5618.net/2010/02/16/sole-leaf/feed/ 0 Dinglewell School (Infant & Junior) Parents Need An Education http://blog.species5618.net/2010/01/25/dinglewell-school-infant-junior-parents-need-an-education/ http://blog.species5618.net/2010/01/25/dinglewell-school-infant-junior-parents-need-an-education/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:27:51 +0000 Species5618 http://blog.species5618.net/?p=448

Parents are too quick to blame other drivers for accidents involving children.

But here we have some parents takeing the “rules don’t apply to me” line, or should I say ZigZag




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Some while ago my wife brought me a Maplin badged, Watson WH1081 weather station. It has an outdoor unit which measures temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity and rain fall. A wireless indoor unit then displays and logs the data. The indoor unit also has a USB port allowing it to be connected to a computer of some description.

The Software that comes with it is fairly basic, however http://sandaysoft.com offers some free and very powerful software call cumulus.

The cumulus software will talk to the indoor unit, manage the data logger, produce charts as you might expect. Then come the great stuff, it has built in tools to upload the data to a web site of your choosing, via FTP, as well as uploading the data to several weather services. A recent addition to the feature set is twitter. Cumulus will now send a tweet on a predefined regular basis with a summary of the current weather conditions

Mine is now tweeting to http://twitter.com/abbeymeadwx

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Slilmbridge, originally uploaded by species5618.

A Day out at Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust

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Autumn trees, originally uploaded by species5618.

simple shot, on route to school

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Today my son turned 13
When I was 13 a handfull of my friends did not have a home phone, nights/days out had to be arranged by the time you left school or did not happen, homework was handwritten, home computers where rare, and ran at 4MHz with between 1 and 16kB of memory, hard disk where unheard of outside corporate circles and a 10 MB disk drive was the size of a washing machine. My TV was a 12 inch black and white portable which recieved THREE channels

Today, 98% of teenage kids have ther own personal mobile phone, a night out can be arranged by text, twitter, facebook, msn from the moble phone while on route to the destination. For his last history project, jake created a well edited 8 minute video and for his next it is a web site, the phone in his pocket runs at 500Mhz and has 8GB of memory, his (yes his own personal) laptop has 2GB memory 2x 2G Hz processors and a huge 250 GB hard disk drive. Jakes TV is a 42inch plamsa with all the toys and over 300 channels to chose from

Oh to be a teenager today

On the flip side when I was a teenager coping a grope with the teenage girl next door was considered a laugh, making a factual reference to someones ethnic background was the norm, and clipping a kid round the ear for scrumping apples was a daily summer time event…… today any of those would get you arrested

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Just spent the entire weekend camping with local scout, cub and beaver troop

Great weekend, but man do I ACHE this morning

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newent fayre, originally uploaded by species5618.

what a great day out
small country town fayre

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Social networks are not NEW,

They have just gained a wider audiance due to improvod usability.

USENET or news groups started in 1979 (long before HTTP), where like minded individuals could gather and exchange puclic messages, very much like twitter today.

The big difference, it was mainly a hardcore GEEK world.

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