The Wrong Sort of Snow

Firstly, thanks to westerling for sending the blanket of snow covering London and Slough I requested on Twitter the other day.

It appears to be entirely the wrong sort of snow, but I suppose I should have read the label before ordering. It seems to compact down an awful lot.

In true ebay style - feedback:

**** - Very quick and didn't charge anything. Item not quite as expected, but seller highly recommended anyway.

So, lunchtime seemed the idea time to build an army of snowmen. Having rolled the body of the first one around most of the garden and not got it much bigger than a beach ball, it was soon clear that wasn't going to happen, so I left it in the middle of the garden and tried to build it up there instead.

It soon became clear from the shape that it was turning into something else entirely, so I went with that instead (at least it solved the issue of not having any coal or carrots).

( morganmuffle requested photos - behind cut )

The Lawn now appears to be disappearing again rapidly...

I Fought MyStuff and Won!

Since September I've been studying for one of the modules of the OU's MAODE (H808 to be exact).

Compared to other courses I've done in the past, this one seems to have been an awful lot more work. This may be partly because a lot of the course explored the use of e-portfolios and the one the OU provided (MyStuff, which is based around Moodle) is fairly newly implemented (i.e. full of bugs).

It was interesting to explore the software and hear the reactions of the other students trying to use it, but I seem to have spent so much time over the past few months twiddling my thumbs waiting for pages to load or tearing my hair out when it returns an error when I'm trying to save an item.

My final e-portfolio for the module was submitted yesterday at about 2.30, so it's now all completed and I've suddenly got quite a bit of free time back again which is bizarre and don't need to look at MyStuff again for now.

Am hoping to follow it up with some more modules in the future, but work are not prepared to fund any more at the moment (recession, etc, etc) and I can't afford to fund myself at the moment either, so it looks like I'm going to get a break for a bit first.

Tweeting Loudly

So, having started doing the whole Twitter thing, having already played about with feeding both LJ and twitter into Facebook (into the notes and status respectively), I was interesting in having a play with Loud Twitter to feed twitter into LJ.

The only real problem I had with this, is that it can become a bit overwhelming when your friends page fills with tweets that you read on twitter anyway.

I know some people get round this by filtering the posts, so that only those who want to see the twitter posts do, but that seems to defeat the point of the tweets being public in the first place.

So, I thought I'd get round these issues by feeding it into a community instead hmmm_twea. Then my tweets can live their own lives there, undisturbed by those who don't want to read them/read them elsewhere, until such time as they're ready to break free of cyberspace and take over the world for me *evil cackle*.

Of Being Human and the Portrayal of Owens in the Media

So, having gained some free time after completing H808 yesterday, I decided to explore what was on offer on iplayer. In the end I downloaded the first episode of Being Human as I had recollections of seeing it recommended somewhere (possibly on here somewhere?).

( I don't normally post about films/programmes/books much, but it seems to be appropriate to cut in case anything I write turns out to be a spoiler )

Perhaps I should start a campaign for a more interesting portrayal of an Owen in the media?

Would offer to let them follow me around with a camera to see what a real Owen is like, but I'm too modest for that sort of thing.