IoW Day6: Romans & Ryde
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 9, 2009
It was a cold, wet morning in Freshwater Bay; the sea was rough and angry, so I decided not to make any serious excursions to any outside attractions.
IoW Day5: Sandown Safari
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 8, 2009
It was Sandown’s turn to entertain me today;
The agenda included a trip along the pier and seafront, concluded with a visit to IW Zoo where ITV’s Tiger Island is filmed.
But first a couple of shots of the Bay, firstly around 9pm at night; and then the stormy morning shots about 7:30am.
IoW Day4: Animal adventure
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 7, 2009
Today spent a lot of the day in the middle of the island; Arreton, Amazon World (just above Branstone), and Godshill.
Arreton & Godshill were mainly places to see (cough) local craft shops & wares – Arreton Barns did have a small Shipwreck Museum and an interesting collection of slot machines that brought back some memories of when I was a kid; but nothing really to write home about.
IoW Day3: Out and about.. .
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 6, 2009
Last night I trawled through the tourist guides to see if I could plan my island hopping a bit more; fat chance! but at least I have a list of places I want to visit.
First trip on my list was back to Yarmouth to visit the Tourist Information Centre;
I picked up a tourist parking permit; so I don’t have to deal with the pay & display’s any more.. also just missed one of the many pheasants that live on the island – phew!
IoW Day2: Around the Island
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 5, 2009
Day started off quiet chilled; breakfast and a couple of tweets to the guys. Read the Sunday papers in the lounge until 11am then checked out the Life Boat in the bay.
IoW Day1: The holiday begins
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Musings on April 4, 2009
Started my 10 day break on the Isle of Wight, a small island off the South coast of the UK.
I’ll be posting a journal every day with musings and pictures. I’ll be using Microsoft Live Writer to compose the posts off-line and my Samsung i70 and of course my iPhone for the image content, I expect you’ll be able to tell which photo came from which device.. haha
#followfriday 27th March – what an AWESOME bunch!
Posted by martin newham in Musings on March 27, 2009
It’s Friday again, and on Twitter that means its’s #followfriday!
It’s an ongoing tradition to recommend new people to follow, generally it’s done in Twitter itself, but you only get 140 characters which isn’t much – today I’ll be updating this post with all the poeple that so kindly recommended me.
Future of print?
Posted by martin newham in Musings, Web/Tech on March 14, 2009
Just some though as I walked through a bookshop, open to comments and thoughts.
With the worlds resources being hit hard time and time again, and the global collapse of commerce, what about printed material?
All printed material is dependent upon trees to a degree, obviously recycling and alternative materials are used. But what struck me was the waste; what happened to the books, newspapers and magazines that weren’t sold? Waste! True may be recycled again, but hardly any printed matter will use 100% recycled – in most cases it’s just not suitable.
With Amazon’s Kindel2 on sale in the States I really think this is the way forward although it’s a shame the Kindle isn’t quite there yet.
Update: Amazon.com is now selling the Kindel2 on an international basis, this includes the free transfer of your electronic publications. For more information visit Amazon.
Ebooks of course have been with us for a long time but it’s only recently that Amazon, Sony and others have turned their focus to truely portable and usable products.
With a few years more development on the amazing low power epaper we can expect to seelarge full colour displays that take hardly any power at all – this I hope will be start of a slow end to printed matter such as books, magazines and papers. I believe of course that not all printed matter will fall prey to the epaper.
With the reduction of printed matter, delivery will be simpler, an RSS type feed will ensure you papers and monthly mags are delivered ok time with little in delivery costs.
I’m all for it TBH, so roll on Kindle 3-4-5…
What do you think?
Twitter Honors
Posted by martin newham in Musings on March 13, 2009
It’s Friday again, and on Twitter that means its’s #followfriday!
It’s an ongoing tradition to recommend new people to follow, generally it’s done in Twitter itself, but you only get 140 characters which isn’t much – today I’ll be updating this post with all the poeple that so kindly recommended me.
Free coffee
Posted by martin newham in Musings on March 7, 2009
Only a short post; really enjoying my free coffee from SB.
Playing with some new iPhone apps which will apppear in a up and coming blog post.
Been a busy week, and I’d like to welcome all my new followers on twitted, proud to say that over the past week my follow count has past 1,000 – thanks to everyone.
