My Daughter – the geek

So my daughter (the 9 year old) suddenly decided  that she NEEDED to draw a chart showing how many webkinz she and her friends own.
She made this 100% by herself in Numbers with absolutely NO help at all – there’s hope for her yet
Based upon information available to her from the WebKinz website, [...]

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New Colour pallete tool

I’ve posted in the past about some superb tools that help you select aesthetically pleasing colours for web content – well I have to post again because I stumbled upon ( I do love stumbleupon)  one that is even better than both of those in many ways.
Firstly it’s even easier to use – requiring even [...]

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Harry Beck.

I stumbled upon a really great BBC video on the history of one of the worlds most popular and influential bits of art – the map of the London Underground (subway) system.
I’ve never been to London myself, but I’ve already seen many derivatives of this style – thinking rather ridiculously to myself that it was [...]

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No more money down the drain

Ecodrain looks like a smart, simple and straightforward enough approach to saving money that we otherwise let flow right down the drain:

According to the Canadian manufacturer there are no moving parts either!
Colour me impressed (and notice the correct spelling!).

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