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Our efforts to get Eva to ride her bike without stabilizers has paid off as you can see from this photo.

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Ever been stuck on an airplane in economy where the person in front has the temerity to recline their seat back? It’s especially infuriating when you’re trying to eat the stuff they call food! Well, this video might offer a solution!

How To Keep Motherfu#%s From Putting Their Seats Back from fi5e on Vimeo.

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This post from Wired’s Geekdad blog is very timely as we are just getting Eva to ride her bike without stabilizers. She’s been out twice in Cassiobury Park at the bottom of our road and has done very well both times.

We’ve been using the final method mainly, running with the child on the driveway, but also a little bit of hill training.

I’ll be subscribing to the feed from Geekdad from now on, so what other pearls it’s got to offer.

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Got back from a great bank holiday trip up to Sheffield to visit my mum and pick up the kids. Unusually for a British bank holiday the weather wasn’t too bad; sunny on both the Saturday and Sunday.

We spent most of the weekend up at Cannon Hall Farm near Barnsley. There’s an open farm with a great play area for the children and plenty of animals for the kids to feed. The neighbouring farm also creates a maize maze for you to get lost in, as well as some terrific ice cream!

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As it had been my mum’s birthday recently we took her to a Latin American restaurant in Sheffield called Las Iguanas. We were a bit unsure how the kids would get on with it but in fact it was great for the kids. They have a children’s menu from which they tried and liked the chicken chimichangas. The food, atmosphere and service were all excellent. We will be definitely going there again and would recommend it to anyone.

On the Sunday we went to Wisewood Methodist Church where a baptism took place. After the service the whole congregation were treated by the family to a lovely meal of traditional Ghanian and Gambian food.

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Blog Action Day is coming on October 15th and for 2008 the theme is about raising awareness of the issues of poverty. I’ve blogged about poverty in the past when I attended a meeting with the then Secretary of State for International Development, Hilary Benn. Since that meeting I’ve subscribed to the departments Developments magazine to try and keep upto date with some of the things going on and the issues that still exist (of which there are many).

It’s encouraging to read in the latest issue of Developments magazine that Gordon Brown and Douglas Alexander, the new Secretary of State are still firmly behind the Millenium Development Goals that were announced at the UN Millenium Summit in 2000. They both acknowledge that there is still much to be done and they require people to keep up the pressure on their politicians to ensure that these goals do not slip from the UN’s agenda. With that in mind there is another UN summit taking place in New York on September 25th and I urge anyone reading this to e-mail, write or meet their politicians to make sure that they are doing what they can to ensure that these goals are met. In the UK you can use the list at the Parliament website to contact your local MP.

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I don’t really understand why as I didn’t watch them that much when I was a kid, but for some reason I was delighted yesterday with the news that the Banana Splits were going to be back on our screens again. Well, not mine actually as they’ll be on the Cartoon Network which is not yet on Freeview:-)

My kids love the Banana Splits theme tune but the reaction seemed to be a bit muted when I announced to them yesterday that they were coming back on TV. In fact Eva, our 4 year old daughter, didn’t really have a clue what I was talking about! Kids today!

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I’ve decided to put the whole of wileysworld.org into Wordpress and update the theme. I’m hoping that this might spur me into writing more posts to the blog and to keep the gallery upto date. I think this theme is quite good from Design Disease though I’d like to reduce the width of the first sidebar a little. The gallery is the NextGEN gallery plugin for wordpress which has lots of options for uploading images which makes the workflow relatively easy. Shame there isn’t a tool for importing from Gallery.

I’m still playing around with the theme and settings and will be slowly adding more recent pictures to the gallery before moving older pictures over. At some stage over this week I’ll move the whole thing to the top level directory. Any comments, please let me know.

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I received an e-mail from Tripadvisor today indicating that they’ve just released their “2008 Travelers’ Choice Destination Awards” (pdf).
The list is broken out into the top 100 in the world and then the top 25 in the various global regions. It seems I’m a very well travelled man as I have been to 24 of the world’s top 100 destinations! At the end of this month I’ll be going to two more places I’ve never been before; Dallas, Texas and San Juan, Puerto Rico. Sadly neither of those are in the top 100.

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It’s been a long time since I participated in a 10K race (I don’t say competed because I don’t enter to win). But I was persuaded to enter the Watford 10K last Monday which, in hindsight, was a little foolish considering I hadn’t done any training for it save for a few laps around Euan’s football training ground the Saturday before. Still, all things considered I didn’t do so bad; I finished the race, and in under an hour too, at 55:37.

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I’ve started fiddling around with StumbleUpon and came across this little gem. I hope you like it too.

The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

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