Time to waste time Friday, 18 April 2008 Normally I consider the Computing Magazine (www.computing.co.uk) that keeps landing on my work desk despite me never asking for it and even changing companies to get away from it to to be nothing but a well wrapped up Dilbert cartoon. Normal procedure on getting this wonderful mag is to turn to the back, read the cartoon, throw it into the recycling and complain about how printed media is obsolete. But there was one story in it about a timewasting site which I have to admit makes it worth having read beyond the cartoon. Its a live game where you try to make up words with letters (like on a fridge) while others steal your letters and make up words themselves. Pointless but enormous fun. In their own words: "This is so much more exciting than whatever you did this morning: this is truly what the internet was created for". I could not agree more! Have a go at http://lunchtimers.com/ 1 Comments Ebay Feedback Generator Wednesday, 2 April 2008 What a genius site! No longer do I have to sit there thinking of new and interesting ways to say "I bought something from this person and I got it without it being broken or the buyer stealing my credit card details / identity". A website can generate it for me. Definitely one of those things I wish I had thought of first! www.ebayfeedbackgenerator.com/feedback.pl As Heather said when I showed it to her - "Excellent product! Highly Recommended. A+++++++++++"! 0 Comments New Jakeman planned Monday, 10 March 2008 In what must be a fit if insanity we have decided that we still have too much time and money on our hands with only one child, so for anyone who does not yet know, here is a photo of the developing "fourth Jakeman". Do you think he/she looks like me? We should find out in July! 0 Comments Fishing at Delapre Abbey Sunday, 21 October 2007 We were walking at Delapre Abbey in Northampton yesterday and saw some people fishing. Okay, so they were police. And a diver. And they were fishing with a tractor and a boat. Anyway, they caught a couple of cars (as you do) and I thought they were worth taking a picture of. http://www.edjakeman.com/photos-album-free.aspx?iAlbumId=79 0 Comments Northampton Balloon Festival a runaway success again! Monday, 27 August 2007 Thanks to Northampton for staging another wonderful event in the form of the Balloon Festival 2007! In this picture you can see the amazing moment that the balloons were all ready to set off for the early morning launch on Saturday morning. In retrospect the crowd control barriers you can see were overkill since there were about 17 people there at that time. And we still outnumbered the balloons by 100%, something that continued for the whole remainder of the weekend as all the launches were cancelled. We shouldn't blame the council for the weather of course - we should blame them for charging us £4 to go onto the Racecourse. Normally people would pay money to get OFF the Racecourse! There were the stalls of course, which appeared to be the same ones as last year, the year before, and the 78 years before that. Anyway, if you missed the 6am Saturday "launch", here are some photos of the rather eerie festival... http://www.edjakeman.com/photos-album-free.aspx?iAlbumId=78 Labels: Northampton Balloon Festival, Racecourse 0 Comments Gabby.com Saturday, 2 September 2006 Something fun that Heather noticed online (it was worth giving her a computer! She is very good at researching) is www.gabbly.com. If you are on a website and want to discuss it, just add this sites address in front of the one you're on and you get a little MSN style window so you can chat. No programs to install or anything. Well, I think that's clever. Now I know what you're thinking - you want to chat about this site right now! Just click this link: http://www.gabbly.com/www.edjakeman.com 0 Comments Harriet grows teeth and becomes fierce Friday, 18 August 2006 Just as a quick update on Harriet, she is now 9 months old, has six teeth and can give a nasty bite! Her favourite things to chew are organic buscuits and my finger, usually when I least expect it. As soon as she is old enough to understand she will be told off about this! 0 Comments Previous Posts Time to waste time Ebay Feedback Generator New Jakeman planned Fishing at Delapre Abbey Northampton Balloon Festival a runaway success aga... Gabby.com Harriet grows teeth and becomes fierce Harriet Rebecca Jakeman is born! Archives December 2005 August 2006 September 2006 August 2007 October 2007 March 2008 April 2008