drbexl.co.uk

As I have become more familiar with WordPress, I moved the blog “drbexl searches the ‘net” across intro WordPress.com, but have now managed to move it into a self-hosted site. I’m still playing around with the themes/widgets, and am slowly moving the information across from my Dreamweaver based website , integrating blog/website. The weird number of categories is a legacy from blogspot, and will be sorted – one day! Need to check out where my email is, etc…

Here’s the first quick test video I made… I obviously need to wait another second before I start talking, and plan what I am talking about too! And here’s a second version 2010-02-05_1954, after upgrading to Pro, which was £11! Means can now upload to YouTube and make longer videos, but the free version looks like it would be enough for a lot of people, where you can also upload to Screencast! I’m thinking about using it to allow students to follow how to set up a WordPress blog – it has to be better than a PowerPoint presentation right?! Thanks to @russell1955 for the tip-off about this software!

“Do you have so many different interests and passions the concept of settling into one career always felt awful to you?

If so, do you recognize yourself in these descriptions?

You are…

…Afraid you’ll either have to settle into a career and stick with it for life (boring!). Or, pursue your many, unrelated passions that will leave you penniless and unable to support your family.

…Well beyond your college years but still clueless about what you want to be when you grow up. You feel like something is wrong with you.

…Often described as a Jack-of-all-trades, master of none. You are quickly excited about many, completely unrelated topics, but you may lose interest just as quickly.

…Someone with a zest for life and a love of new experiences and learning for the sake of learning.

…Very successful in your field, but bored to death and looking to change directions – again. To the horror and disbelief of those around you.

If this sounds like you, chances are, you are frustrated. Or worse; you are desperate because you can’t seem to “get it together.” It’s even possible, in your attempt to keep your options open in order to satisfy all your different interests, you make no choices at all. You know you have all this potential but lots of it is going unused.

If you’ve ever felt as if something was wrong with you for your inability to stick with a passion, a hobby, an interest, or job, or even a career; take heart. You are completely normal!”

Read the full article by Ilona Vanderwoude, also on Twitter @careerbranches

• Keep Calm and Carry On
• Digital Fingerprint
• Adrenablog

Lots of marking, planning (lectures, module guides, new business ideas, birthday party!)

A CHORAL event at Winchester Cathedral to promote peace is being held next Wednesday (January 27). Organised by the city’s university, it aims to bring together several choirs and a host of musical styles from across the globe. Professor June Boyce-Tillman will lead the interfaith event, and it follows on from a similar concert at the cathedral in early 2009. The performers will tackle a range of motets, hymns, religious songs, chants and music from other alternative faiths.

Read full story.

50 places to see before you die, according to 20,000 viewers of the BBC’s “Holiday” programme (2003?). See also interesting article “things to do-before-you-die-ism“, and my travelblog(I never quite finished the text – I blame the chest infection I got on Europe Tour! Decided to make myself feel grateful for all the opportunities I have already had to travel – and you can pretty much assume if I haven’t been somewhere, I want to go there…

1. The Grand Canyon, USA
   
2. Great Barrier Reef, east coast of Queensland, Australia Been here!
   
3. Florida and Walt Disney, USA Been here!
4. South Island, New Zealand Been here!
5. Cape Town and Table Mountain, South Africa
6. Golden Temple at Amritsar, Punjab, India
7. Las Vegas, Nevada
8. Sydney, Australia Been here!
9. New York
10. Taj Mahal
11. Canadian Rockies
12. Uluru (Ayers Rock), Australia Been here!
13. Chichen Itza, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
14. Machu Picchu, Peru Been here!
15. Niagara Falls
16. Petra, Jordan
17. The Pyramids, Cairo
18. Venice Been here!
19. Maldives, Indian Ocean, 450 miles SW of Sri Lanka
20. Great Wall of China
21. Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
22. Hong Kong
23. Yosemite National Park
24. Hawaii
25. Auckland, New Zealand Been here!
26. Iguassu Falls, Argentina and Brazil Been here!
27. Paris Been here!
28. Alaska
29. Angkor Wat, Cambodia Been here!
30. Nepal, Himalayas
31. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Been here!
32. Masai Mara, Kenya
33. Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
34. Luxor, Egypt
35. Rome Been here!
36. San Francisco
37. Barcelona Been here!
38. Dubai, United Arab Emirates
39. Singapore Been here!
40. La Digue, Seychelles, 1000 miles E of Kenya.
41. Sri Lanka, S of India
42. Bangkok, Thailand Been here!
43. Barbados, 100 miles E of the Caribbean chain
44. Iceland
45. Terracotta Army, Xi’an, China
46. Zermatt, Switzerland
47. Angel Falls, Venezuela
48. Abu Simbel, Egypt
49. Bali, in the Indonesian archipelago
50. French Polynesia (Bora Bora), 165 miles NW of Tahiti

List from here, wonder what it would look like in 2010. I am looking at going to Amsterdam with Fiona at Easter. Here is some of the places I have said I want to go, what do you think I’m missing?!

Another glorious waste of time… it doesn’t set itself any limits on the number of questions, but amazing that some kind of mathematical formula can be right so many times – I had 3 goes (Bridget Jones, God, Richard Hammond) and it got all 3 of those – can see some people trying with some cryptic ones, but I guess it absorbs those for next time… Akinator – also on the iPhone (£1.19)!

Watch:

So funny – what more needs to be said… and there’s loads more on YouTube!

Then:

Used to think this film was a hoot, so this 4 mile race, on behalf of Barnardos, caught my eye.

After my chest infection (started in Rome on the Europe Tour, June 2008 – well, at least it was somewhere exotic), my fitness has deteriorated massively, so in November I was prescribed “exercise” (I asked if it was possible, give me that little push back to the gym that I used to love going to!), so I have been making it down twice a week, excepting skiing/cold/snowbound over the last 3 weeks. Back in today (I walked, my car is snowed in again!), met with GP-Referral lovely Lydia, and said I’d been trying to run again, but that about 1.5 minutes was my limit… so she ‘prescribed’ trying a slower speed (7.5, rather than 9.5, I used to get up to 11.5) for 2 mins, then walk for 1-2 – and with that I managed 6 minutes + the intervals, and then decided I needed a target to aim for! Karen gave me this book for my birthday last year, as she knows I have run before (and we did the Moonwalk together) and once I’m out there, find it really helps my mindset!

So, there we are, 2nd May 2010, I shall be running 4 miles around London dressed as a nun (so that’s going to be an early start for me too!) – apparently Barnardos are likely to be in touch re-fund-raising, but I’d love your encouragement

Thanks to Helen Hobbs for bringing this to my attention…  Wonder if I should sell melted snow… but it doesn’t seem to be bringing in much (where did you get “Latest bid is £830,100.00″ from, Helen?) ! Love the way it is categorised under sporting goods and skiing accessories – have had many a good ski holiday a bit dampened by a lack of snow!

Thanks Pennie Ley for the reminder of this video – seen it before – can’t help but smile when you watch it!  Reminds me of the Winchester Flashmob.