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Answer by Chris Combs: This video from Trevor Eissler, Author of "Montessori Madness" explains the differences in a really cool and creative way. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcgN0lEh5IA View Answer on Quora
Today Twitter allowed me to download all my 11,183 Tweets. I first started on the service on Monday 20th November 2006. This makes it that I’ve been tweeting at about 5 tweets per day. You can download your own tweets from the Twitter Settings menu (click the little cog wheel then Download archive. I’ve now […]
Answer by Oliver Emberton: I'll answer your question, but first I need to explain all of human civilisation in 2 minutes with the aid of a cartoon snake. Humans like to think we're a clever lot. Yet those magnificent, mighty brains that allow us to split the atom and touch the moon are the same […]
I at to smile at this twitter from Fitbit: Have you ever wondered how far you walk if you add up a year of steps? Keep an eye out for an email from us to learn about your 2012 stats! — Fitbit (@fitbit) January 3, 2013 Since I’ve already accomplished this and more by using […]
Today marks my first aniversary with a Fitbit, well two of them as one broke getting on the plane in Geneva. The replacement one, kindly supplied FOC by Fitbit eventually got caught up in a washing machine cycle 🙁 Fortunately, by then I had fixed the original one with superglu, the second one has now […]
My fitbit #fitstats for 11/05/2012: 22,086 steps and 10.6 miles traveled. fitbit.com/user/229JTZ
Tomorrow I try my first New Zealand Great Walk it’s the Tongariro Northern Circuit and goes around two active volcanoes Mt Tongariro and Mt Ngauruhoe. What makes it different for me is that I have to take all my food & possible water for two nights & three days. I’ve booked both the Oturere Hut and […]
I left Cambridge at 9am on Sunday the 14th October and arrived in Auckland at 2pm on Tuesday the 16th with brief stops at Dubai, Kuala Lumpur & Melbourne on the way. Thats 43 hours straight without any proper sleep. First job in Auckland was to try and get my D550 camera fixed as it […]
For some reason the flight from Dubai to Melbourne takes a break in Kuala Lumpur after 5689km. It’s not clear what is happening other than we are all deplane with our belongings. The pilot reminded us that there is a death penalty for anyone having drugs! So we come out of one door and re-nter […]
Currently flying 543mph at 35,000 feet en route on the 3602 miles to Dubai. This is the first leg of my marathon journey to Auckland. The journey across London was once again bedevilled by an ‘incident’ on the platform. Leading to the closure of St Pancras which on top of the closure of the Victoria […]
