Yak & Natter

Seen in a near-by street: “Lost! One Penny. Circular and copper coloured. Last seen in my pocket. If found please pick it up and enjoy good luck that follows”.

We were on the beach last night, and the tide was a long way out. Further out than I’d seen it for a long time, and as a result we could get
close (1280×1024 image) to the West Pier. There was an artist out at work, creating circles of various sizes in the sand. Why? Don’t know. Why not.

Others were out cockling. We think. Well, they were digging holes in the sand. And yes, that’s right, sand. There is sand out there.

I was having a browse around iPod Hacks over lunch and spotted a couple of Shuffle protectors – the Griffin iVault (a bit hard core for me) and Wrappers (my favourite is sunflower). Currently I don’t have a cover for my shuffle, although we do have an eVo iSkin for our main iPod.

We’ve recently come across the Freebord – it looks like an interesting design, and the videos make it look like a really close match to snowboarding in style. We haven’t invested in one yet, but it is pretty tempting.

So, we’ve seen our last real snow (I think) for the season, and finished with a great long
weekend in Chatel one of the resorts in the Portes Du Soleil area. We were really lucky and snow fell the day we
travelled and on our first day on the slopes and refreshed some otherwise struggling pistes. We spent one day in the Linga and Pré-la-Joux areas (a great, if low-visibility day), another day in the Lindaret area of Avoriaz (our favourite area when we were there at New Year) and our final half day in Super Chatel (limited terrain but great for practicing riding switch). Perversely enough, this was amongst the best snow we’ve had in any of our three trips this season despite it being almost the end of season.

We looked at the league tables on Vodafone Live at 5pm, and the tables hadn’t been updated. So we didn’t know until the BBC told us that Hull have been promoted into the Championship. I had to pause TiVo and rewind to make sure I’d heard right!

Using the tried and trusted maths of “messing with the equations until it looks right” we predict Hull to be top of the Prem by 2017. But more pressingly, we need Brighton to stay up so we can go watch Hull play them next year.

Two promotions in two years. All together now: “One more! We only want one more….”

It would be cool to have a
secret tunnel to the beach from our house.

What’s the difference between Wikipedia and h2g2? Reading up on the thinking behind the creation of h2g2 makes it sounds
rather more exciting than those behind Wikipedia (even though someone has provided a mobile interface for Wikipedia now).

Of course you can lookup the Wikipedia entry for h2g2, and visa versa. But only h2g2 has an entry comparing both.

Cathy T was kind enough to pass on the URL for 10×10. It’s not without it’s problems, but it’s cute. Much cuter than that thing I did a while back.

Spring Snowboarding in the Portes du Soleil

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