Cathie’s blog…

I found out something really cool today.  Okay, most of the webworld found out about it last year, but so what?

Basically, there is technology available that makes black and white squares.  Woohoo I hear you say.

Well, the really cool thing is, that if you have some software on your mobile phone, you can point your camera at it and it will translate into a url that could provide info.  How cool is that?

Surely, someone somewhere will have picked up on this and created a t-shirt where you can put your own url on it with your contact details, in black and white squares, so that another techno-like-minded geek can take a picture and get your number.  The future of internet dating???!

The possibilities are endless.

Find out more at Semacode.

….is not the subject of this post.  But how cool could that be? 

Actually, one thing I have really enjoyed this week, has been planning the bit10 summer party.  It’s not quite as impressive as the Summer Party 2005 and there is no chocolate fountain, but it does involve sending the whole of bit10 out for an afternoon on a car treasure hunt!

For the past two days, I have been plotting and planning ways in which the teams have to circumnavigate the Warwickshire countryside, looking for clues, with the hope that they can be crowned ‘bit10 champions 2006′ (for treasure hunting at any rate). 

This has meant driving around, in my little open-top car, with the sun beating down - not bad for an afternoon’s work (although I did give up a Sunday to do this as well!!)  And the reward for my deviousness in creating a tricky route for the teams?? - yup, forgetting to take suntan lotion, so I’m now a vivid lobster-red.

Should be good fun though - we’ll see if any of the teams actually make it back!!!

Well, you never know - it might be my one and only post.

And besides, do you really want me to be the same as all the others?

You don’t.

Don’t look so sad.  You don’t need to know about me.  You don’t need to know that I quit teaching after seven years, spent a few years working at Becta, then ended up at bit10.  You don’t need to know that I prefer skiing to snowboarding, love rollercoasters, paint minature figures and am married with four cats (not a child substitute in any way!).

There.  Was it really worth it?