Well Miles is now 4, doesn’t time fly !
We all celebrated by having a party down at Hudys and what an excellent time we had. Miles would like to say a big thankyou to eveyone for coming and also an extremely big thankyou for his lovely presents (mummy and daddy will just need to find money for a new house to store all the toys!!)
Update
Thought I’d upload some video which you can see here
Today we all went down to Markeaton park, George was especially well behaved and we even managed to let him off the lead for a while.
I finally decided to start teaching Annabel some very basic programming the other day, with the anniversary of the BBC Micro upon us I started to feel all nostalgic about how much I used to enjoy getting a computer to do something rather than just playing games! We spent some time with Chipmunk Basic, which although a very good implementation on the MAC or PC (and it’s free!) didn’t really capture Annabel’s imagination for too long (after we got it to say poo in a variety of different voices). Anyway after trawling around for a while I stumbled across the Scratch project which is created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Essentially Scratch is a graphics-based programming language which is totally drag, drop and click but enables you to create animations or even simple games very quickly and the best bit is you can share the results with the rest of the world on the Scratch website. You can download Scratch from the web here (yes it’s free too) as well as play on the some of the games that have been created by other Scratch users. The video below should give you some ideas on just what you can do with Scratch;
On sunday we had dinner at nannies
Don’t forget I also post to the .Mac site occasionally so don’t forget to check it http://www.theherbertfamily.org.uk Just posted a couple of cracking pictures of Miles which I’m sure will delight and amuse girlfriends in later life !
The Wii Fit is to be released on April 25th, looks like fun but for £69 you need to get your moneys worth! Watch the trailer from E307 below;
Simian Mobile Disco released their new EP Clock on the 10th of this month, although 3 of the tracks have been released below it’s still worth a listen.
George off the lead during this mornings walk ( unfortunately he followed me home ) 😉
