It was a bit windy last Thursday and a blast of wind took the side off a portable sign next to the office car park. Not the most exciting of things but we did catch it on the company webcam.

Now I can’t remember the full lyrics to the Tigger song, but I do remember it had the line “The most wonderful thing about Tiggers is i’m the only one”. At a car boot sale the other week we managed to prove that this is not the case.

This weekend I was persuaded to carve out a Pumpkin for Halloween, and we were fairly happy with the result. The purpose of such a scary face is actually to scare off ghosts and gools, but I think some people missed the point….

As you can see this is not so much going to scare off ghosts, just vegetarians. I still find it rather amusing though. You can see more pumpkins like this on pjguyton2002’s flickr page.

I have been doing some tidying in the office and decided that it was time to clean out the several sets of RS catalogues that we had acquired. I have away a couple of sets away and kept one, leaving only these 5 sets to send for recycling.

or reference I have asked not to be sent any more unless we ask for them as we tend to use the Internet to search and the trade counter to purchase.

I have been meaning to make a list of my favourite podcasts and publish them here. The reason why was that if I liked them, and you like reading my blog, then you might like the podcasts as well. After producing a list on my Vox Blog in answer to a question of the day I have cross posted it here. I This is not an exhaustive list as I am subscribed to many and am adding and removing them daily, but this is a list of the podcasts I have listened to for a wile and enjoy.

Tech Podcasts;

• CNET News.com daily tech news podcast
• this WEEK in TECH *
• Security Now! *
• Tech Talk Radio *
• BBC Digital Planet
• The Geekcast
• FLOSS Weekly
• The Web 2.0 Show

Science Fiction Podcasts;

• Escape Pod
• Spaceship Radio

Music Podcasts;

• High Orbit *

Miscellaneous Podcasts;

• Off the Hook *
• PodCacher *
• Manager Tools *
• PodCast 411
• PodCheck Review
• Media Talk (Guardian Unlimited)

* These are my favorites and often get listened to the day they are downloaded.