The John Bramston School (1936 – 2011)

Every now and again in life we do something a little strange, and for me, today was one of those days. Today at 6pm I headed into ‘Maltings Academy’ (the new name for ‘The John Bramston School’) along with a few thousand other former pupils for Bramston’s Swan Song, an open house invitation to the

A12 Widening at Hatfield Peveral and Witham

Back in October last year I was featured on BBC Essex Radio covering the traffic in Springfield Road in Chelmsford, click here to read what I had to say, and listen to the BBC Essex recording. As a persistent travel moaner on Twitter (my words) I was approached and asked to comment to BBC Essex

Cleveratom (2006-2011) in October

Dear BLOG , hello… As ever, I know you are busy, I have a brief appeal for help. – I'm trying to find people involved in the 'New Diplomas' programme, I need some advice, and to pick their brains a bit. If you know anyone, or can forward this mail, I'd really appreciate it… 😉

Twitterific iPhone App Error

I love it when an error message makes no sense. This blog entry was written on the move using an iPhone and sent to www.mattheweaves.co.uk and Facebook.

Apple MacBook Pro Kernal Panic and Logic Board Failure

I really like Apple, but every single laptop I've owned (Milhouse 2000-2003 , SuperTed 2003-2005, Elwood 2005-2007, Jake 2007-present) has gone wrong and had to have a 'logic board' replacement. 'Jake' is in for repair at the moment along with Alex's machine which also has logic board failure. Justina's iBook has had two logic board

Blog spam reduction Spam Karma 2

I've been using Spam Karma 2 for a couple of years now to fend off spam on this WordPress blog. Every now and again a spam comment gets past SK2 as some cheeky spammer writes a direct comment specifically for the page on my blog that they want to target traffic from. I have a

Cleveratom (2006-2011) at BETT 2009

First blog of the year and I’m writing about the BETT show (Olympia; Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday this week)! Cleveratom (2006-2011) (my company) will be at the show again this year, this time we’re partnering with City College Norwich and their excellent ‘RUGroom’ project (for students with Asperger’s Syndrome (a form of Autism)), which

Be Very Afraid 5 – BAFTA London

I travelled up to London on Sunday night to meet the guys from the RUGroom project at City College Norwich in preparation for Professor Stephen Heppell’s ‘Be Very Afraid’ on Monday. The students from RUGroom were showing off their creativity in the form of GeoArt!   Here is some GeoArt one of the groups made