Posted by Margaret on Monday, August 11, 2014 - 12:00
A new app I've put on my phone recently that I really quite like is Journey. It's a journalling app and I've been using it for about 10 days now. I'm doing several different streams of things - like photos/notes of meals, photo + notes on the garden, brief notes on the TV we watch and so on.
Posted by Margaret on Monday, July 21, 2014 - 12:00
Huge four winged dinosaur fossils have been found!
Kinda neat - there's a project to record medieval graffiti in churches.
TV I have set to record last week and this week:
Posted by Margaret on Monday, July 7, 2014 - 12:00
A group of embroiderers have created an ending section to the Bayeux Tapestry.
TV I'm recording this week:
Posted by Margaret on Monday, June 30, 2014 - 12:00
A review of the British Museum Mummies exhibition that I enjoyed reading.
Posted by Margaret on Monday, June 23, 2014 - 12:00
Awesome flowchart for who to support in the World Cup.
Only one new TV series I started recording - Majesty and Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces, which is Dan Cruickshank talking about royal palaces in Britain.
Posted by Margaret on Monday, June 9, 2014 - 12:00
The internet in real time ... animated graphic showing things like number of tweets/second etc.
An editorial on the BBC news site about what the Queen's Speech ceremony is really about.
TV I'm recording this week:
Posted by Margaret on Monday, May 26, 2014 - 12:00
A neat set of photos someone took for a photography project - each pair is herself dressed as a teenager from each decade of the last century, one from mainstream culture, one from a counterculture.
Posted by Margaret on Monday, May 19, 2014 - 12:00
Today (by the time this is published) I start the next of the MOOCs I've signed up for on Future Learn. This one is about the Roman port Portus (at Rome) and I think about archaeology in general as well.
Posted by Margaret on Monday, May 12, 2014 - 12:00
I rediscovered Khan Academy this week - I've had an account there for a few years but had faded out on using it. It does gamified maths tuition and the current way the site is set up has just the right hooks to keep me doing "just another set of questions" for hours. I think I lost 4 hours of Thursday to doing maths :) Before I think you had to start with basic arithmetic and work your way up to the more complex stuff, and that got boring fairly fast.
Posted by Margaret on Monday, May 5, 2014 - 12:00
The tomb of Alexander the Great might've been found - if that turns out to be true, that's kinda cool :)
