It was nice to go and see a historically accurate film for once. LOL. Even though it was a bit crap I enjoyed it. Some of the special effects were a little suspect particulary at the start when they are in the mountains you can kind of see the green screen blur around the characters! They aren’t even shivering and it looked pretty cold!

Juno was one of those films that I really didn’t want to go and see, my wife kind of dragged me along! After a slightly boring start to the film things picked up the plot thickened and I came away really enjoying the film and quite frankly its one of the best films I have seen in a long long time. It was funny, thoughtful and sad. It really got me thinking about various issues regarding pregancy and child birth and speaking as a father to be it certainly is worth a watch.

One of the best saddles I have ever had! It only cost £20 from Wiggle! Better still I got given it as a gift for Christmas.

I got one of these off eBay for £10!!! Awesome for the money. Seems to be really solid.

I just got one of these off eBay to fit a new FSA Pig headset on my Marin Rock Springs.

The mating of the headset and frame was tight so when I was actually trying to fit the headset I ended up with the plastic cups actually digging in to the black plastic handle / stopper at the top of the tool. I just couldn’t tighten it up anymore and I thought I was going to lose all my fingers on the metal tightening bar! I ended up using a wooden mallet (which is about 50 years old) that worked fine. I did only pay 12.50 including postage which I suppose isn’t to bad but it didn’t work aswell as I thought it would.

My advice - buy decent bike tools this one is crap.

Infact have a read of this - its not what i used but you get the idea from the comments on the page.

I build and maintain quite a few web apps at work, one thing they dont have is a standard set of icons. This free set that is available from www.webappers.com is a much appreciated addition to the wonderful world of web 2.o.

This is what happened on a recent trip to Cwmcarn to go biking! I had recently aquired a Nokia N95 it was my first trip to Cwmcarn so I though I would try Nokia Maps out. Um I think the picture speaks for itself! If you look closly there is even a finished flag on the N95 screen.

Two weeks ago I was on my way to Centre Parcs at Whinfell forest and it took me to Ullswater (thats in the opposite direction). This was all well and nice but not with my pregant wife who needs to pee every 15 mins!

I went to see Cloverfield last night and left the cinema completely dissapointed. I don’t like watching home videos at the best of times but thought I would give this one ago! Hey at least its in HD…..

To start off with I got bored waiting for something to happen. Then something did happen. Then the film went from a rather wobbly film to a really wobbly film. Yikes. The cinema should think about installing seats on springs. It seemed to me that everything in this movie had been done before.

Also what was with the SD card / Tape thing in the movie. It clearly says at the start of the film that the video was found on an SD card??? In the film the guys refer to it as a tape…

I’m off to watch Godzilla now.

I can’t understand it. We are supposed to be raising the ‘Internet Generation’ - children who are completely at home with technology, PCs and the Internet. However, I’m still amazed at the dearth of kid’s software that I can find for my children for either the PC, the Xbox or the Pocket PC.

Since Matt introduced me to the wonder that is XBMC (Xbox Media Centre) I’ve really been enjoying playing with my £20 pre-owned original black Xbox. It has, however, been a trial to find child-friendly software that my 3 and 6 year-olds can truly play. We quite enjoy a bit of Super Monkey Ball Deluxe, and they don’t mind Burnout 3 because the whole idea is crashing!! However, a lot of the software is still too difficult to control for them, or simply not interesting for them.

A friend we visitied recently has Buzz! Jungle or something like that, and I have to say that was brilliant - lots of fun for all of us, and the right level. It would be perfectly playable with a normal controller, and I can’t believe there isn’t anything for Xbox that’s similar - am I looking in the wrong place?

I find the same problems with an old Pocket PC that I let my 6 year-old have to play with. She loves sketching and making notes, but I’d like to give her something like the games you can get on the Nintendo DS - like Brain Training or something. The PPC would be so ideal for that kind of interaction. I’m trying a few freeware things I’ve download recently and will see how they look.

It’s not just games. Alice is due her SATs this May, and we’ve bought a couple of test books to look at to understand what they will be expecting of her. A lot of the material is basic maths and comprehension - again perfect material for computer software to deliver. A bit of creativity could even make this stuff fun. Is there a gap in the market, or am I just missing this stuff?

If anyone reading has any suggestions, please let me know. If they sound good, I’ll test them on Alice and give you some real user feedback!!

Dan