Last weekend we had a great time camping at the Llyn Gwynant campsite. It had nice fields roped off from cars, we could hire canoes to go on the lake, and best of all they allow open fires. The wife and kids had a great time doing experimental cooking.
On the second day we had a very nice, and kid friendly walk up to Llyn Idwal. Finally on the way back we stopped off at Penrhyn Castle.
Saturday, 21 August 2010
Monday, 9 August 2010
Iphone and HTML5 Canvas
My father-in-law wants a program to mess about with the Mandelbrot set. Ideally this should work in a browser from the iphone. I'm thinking this would be a good little project to try out using the HTML5 canvas element. Any one know how well HTML5 canvas is supported on the iphone Safari browser?
Sunday, 8 August 2010
#1 Son at the Opera House
Waiting nervously for #1 son to appear in a show at the Manchester Opera House. He's doing a medley of songs from the Lion King after a week of drama school.
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Electoral Disappointment
I've just got off the phone to Manchester Council. It turns out that members of the public can't be present to witness either the count of votes or the declaration of results. I'm disappointed and rather flabbergasted. Doesn't that seem odd? I would have liked to take my son in to see democracy in action. Turns out democracy doesn't let me.
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Quick Interesting Sums
Here's some interesting sums that result in symmetric answers. Useful for daily maths practise as soon as the boys get good enough to complete them.
Monday, 3 May 2010
Inspirational Maths TED Talk
I highly recommend anyone interesting in teaching mathematics to watch this fantastic TED talk by Dan Meyer.
UK Election Party Quiz
I've just done a very interesting online quiz to figure out which party most closely matches your views in the forthcoming UK general election. In reality I'm a single issue voter about freedom in home education...i.e. I'm voting not-Labour.
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