Tablets are still the hot topic and, being a geek, I have of course lusted after one since the iPad came out. However, the price, battery life and weight of it put me off a bit – especially as 90% of the time it would be a glorified book. But I finally caved in and treated myself to a Kindle.
And you know what? It’s probably my favourite piece of tech kit ever…
Just a quick review of the SECC babyshow (I’ll do a longer review later) as time is pressed, I’ll just do highs and lows… Read More
Picked up a Kodak Zi8 for work purposes the other day, but I’d be a liar if I didn’t say that I’ll be using it for personal uses as well, but how does it shape up as a video camera for capturing the family moments? What’s the good points and the bad points? Is it worth the £120 or so that it costs?
What? I’m a writer, we get excited when get nomimated for things. It’s what we’re like. Besides, this is a more interesting election than the other one.
Anyway, word reaches me that I’ve been put forward for a MAD award (best new blog), so I’m all chuffed. Or I was until I looked at the amount of entries and the quality of the competition (warning, if you go blog reading in the links there you’ll lose hours) (and if you do do that, don’t forget to vote for me first 
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Nah, who am I kidding? I’m still chuffed.
Anyway, the point is that there’s some top entries over there well worth reading if you’re into the dad/mum blogging scene (The awards are on Twitter too.) and if you’ve ever wanted to dip your toes into the blogging water then there’s a guide there for that.
Now is it unethical to create email addresses for your unborn child and have him vote…
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Blame Dan over at All That Comes With It and Sally Whittle for this one (between the heading and that line, that should have people wondering…) Warning: really hosed HTML ahead.
Graeme Rose sent me a tweet yesterday and I was a bit busy at the time. All I saw was a reference to the film Kick Ass and groaned (long story, will explain at the end*). When I actually saw what he was talking about, I couldn’t believe it – a cinema in Dundee is giving parents the chance to take under-18 month old kids into this ultra-violent film.
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This was meant to be a post about the upcoming Scottish Baby Show and how I was going to cover it and have some fun with the exhibitors, but instead the organisers have said that any bloggers going can’t do pictures or video or interview exhibitors, so that’s that scuppered. You can read more here, where I put on the social media dayjob hat.
The story’s here, but dear God what sort of moron doesn’t check URLs and brand names in this day and age…incredible. Well done More4Mums for finding out about this. And Kudos to Gordon Macintyre Kemp for revealing it.
And before anyone asks – this isn’t about anti-gay or anti-sex (I’m very much in favour of both as long as it’s with consenting adults) – it’s a) about not having to worry about what the little one is looking at online (even though she never is at home, only at school) and b) that we have such half-wits in charge of branding at a Government level.