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Erm...was that our exit?

Returned home tonight to read this unbelievable story from the US;

"Investigations are under way in the US to find out how a plane heading from San Diego to Minneapolis overshot its destination by 150 miles (240km)..."

Read the whole story here

What a whopper

Windows 7 is launched, and (in Japan at least) there is the most unusual tie-in to an operating system that I've ever seen. 

Reasons for liking Social Networking

A few minutes ago I was sat watching the news with my iPhone in hand (let's be honest - it's never far from me nowadays!), with the Tweetie2 app running when a tweet came in from another user;

It never rains, it pours

Wednesday was one of those days that anything that could wrong *did* go wrong. It all started with a sore throat earlier in the week and the gradual loss of my voice, resulting in being off work on Wednesday to see a doctor. 

Monster Music Medley

So, Halloween is fast approaching and I was looking through my iTunes back catalogue for suitable songs to make a "Halloween playlist" that I could put on in class to get the children in the mood for Halloween events.

The Digital Dark Ages

This evening I finished putting information from the third (and final) school log book onto the centenary timeline that I created (using the excellent Timeglider online generator) to celebrate the recent events at school.

Letter from a parent

Some days are better than others, and today is (so far) one of those good days. It started out well as I had a very interesting note passed to me from a child this morning as I was taking the register.

On a different topic

Are you sitting comfortably, then let me tell you a story.

Positive Thoughts...

<Must be postitive>

Well, October 14th is a day I am going to make sure I wipe from my memory. It didn't go well. From the start of the day it didn't go well, but I am going to smile and laugh about it.

More GDocs success

In one of the upper school classes today, the children were working on presentations about "The Plastic Ocean" as part of their eco-schools work.