A Day out at Slimbridge Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
by Species5618 on Oct.28, 2009, under General
1 Comment more...Time’s are a changing
by Species5618 on Oct.07, 2009, under General
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
Work Hard , Play Hard
by Species5618 on Sep.21, 2009, under General
Just spent the entire weekend camping with local scout, cub and beaver troop
Great weekend, but man do I ACHE this morning





Social Networks are not a NEW thing
by Species5618 on Sep.08, 2009, under General
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.
Someone living near me has been a naughty boy PART TWO
by Species5618 on Aug.13, 2009, under General
Some while ago??I wrote this “Someone living near me has been a naughty boy”
Well the presence of the stange BMW has continued, and can occasionlay be seen on weekends
However yesterday saw an intersting development.
A different car, parked same spot with two people with clips boards, acoompanied but TWO, yes TWO EON, power vans, small meter changing type vans, not the big, power fault, dig up the road trucks,
My thinks someone has has the lecky cut off….
GREEN GRASS
by Species5618 on Aug.09, 2009, under General
Test post from flickr.com
moment of bored, before cutting grass
Canon EOS400D, Sigma 17-70




