rachelandrew

I am a car owner

Despite the fact that I haven’t passed (or even attempted) my driving test yet, I am now the proud owner of a shiny red Ford KA. Learning to drive without having a car to practice in was making the process lengthy and expensive as the only driving experience I was getting was with my instructor. … I am a car owner

Geocaching

We went geocaching today to try out my GPS device and found two caches! They both contained travel bugs, which are items with dog tags that have a unique tracking number attached, and we now need to move these items on in their journeys by placing them in a new cache.

Yay for birthdays!

Today marks the start of my last year of being twenty-something … Drew gave me a handheld GPS device so we can go geocaching, which sounds like the perfect geek outdoor activity. I also got a Thinkgeek gift certificate from my parents, woo!

Piano

I recently bought a piano … not a real one with strings that need tuning (we’d never get an upright piano up our stairs) but a decent Kawai digital piano. When I was growing up we always had a piano in the house, but despite my best efforts I never managed to learn to play. … Piano

How to sell accessibility

“With these kinds of arguments, the only type of person who’d say no to an accessible Website would be an unethical, money-hating individual. If your client’s one of them, I suggest you run.” Excellent article on how to sell accessible web site development to your clients on Sitepoint.

Put it back!

UserFriendly on the Google changes – despite the “redesign” Google is still full of font tags and other crud from yesteryear.

Alpacas

We went to the Berkshire College of Agriculture‘s open day today, to show the Small Person the newborn lambs and go on tractor rides and other activities that small people (and big people) love. As well as the lambs we saw Alpacas, alpacas are so cool, I’m not generally into animals but I could quite … Alpacas

t-shirts

My t-shirts arrived yesterday from Threadless, I am currently wearing I Am Analog, and I also bought Y Bird. So I have clothes, without having to go into a shop … which is good.

Fair Trade

20 years ago I was accompanying my mother round various churches and community centres in the North East to listen to her talk about Fair Trade (and to help carry a variety of large and at times peculiar products). At the time no-one had really heard of the concept and getting hold of fairly traded … Fair Trade