What is Project 365?

Project 365 is something anyone can take part in. Take a snap of something every day for 365 days and share them. They don't need to be brilliant, complex, have hidden meaning, or any meaning - just so long as it's one per day for 365 days. I'm doing it so I can look back, keep a record, possibly even create a more interesting side of my life this year.

So here's my first, hopefully I'll keep it up!

My Garden

I don't know about you, but I find it difficult to remember my New Years Resolution, let alone keep it. So I think noting it down will be a good way of keeping track, reflecting and possibly spurring some of you on.

This year I'm going to try some self improvement, at least, I'd see it as improvement. Recently I checked out my BMI on the NHS tool. I did this to stop speculating as to what my weight should be and actually find out a hard value. Although many are sceptical about the relevance of BMI to them, I think it's quite relevant to me. So my BMI turned out to be 17. A fair way outside the 'healthy weight' category of 18.5-25 to the point where my indicator was close to the edge of the scale. After playing for a bit I discovered I needed to put on a stone to tip into the 'Healthy weight' section.


It's not as if I don't eat, I do, just I'm not too sure it's the right stuff. I also don't think my non-exercise habit is helping. I don't want this to cost me money, so the gym is out.

So my resolution(s) are the following:

• Eat better - learn to cook more inspiring foods
• Blog more regularly
• Study more
• Go climbing
• Exercise daily (3 reps)
• 10 Push-ups (spiders if I'm feeling adventurous)
• 10 Sit-ups
• 10 Flyovers
• 10 Arm curls
• 10 Lunges

I was drawn to the existence of Beluga by @Chris_Alexander's review. I thought I'd check it out to see what it was about. It appears to be a new medium of communication, with a little more selected privacy than Twitter and Facebook, where you can broadcast or select one person to send a message to multiple people for it to be a little more private. Beluga overcomes this with the idea of using pods. A pod is private, only invited users can access it, to read or contribute. This means you can create your own private groups to organise, chat, discuss or whatever you feel like. It's in beta, apps are available on iPhone and Android at the moment, BlackBerry is on its way.

I can see this being a simplified version of Google Wave, which means I think it could be used for collaboration - updates, ideas, information, links and the like - as it progresses. It could be used for live feedback sessions or education; Module discussions at uni, group work.

I'm certainly going to be watching how this takes shape. What changes they make, features added. If you think of a feature, they've got open feedback for suggestions and the like - I have a few of my own, just need to put them into words. Give it a shot, be part of the next big thing from the off! We're setting up a Reading pod as I type this, if you want in let me know!

Recently I've been home for Christmas. A time for celebration, eating, drinking and catching up. It took me a while to get into a Christmas-y mood. Not quite sure why. But at least it felt like Christmas just in time for Christmas day.

On Bank Holiday Monday, or 'Boxing Day' if you follow that kind of thing. (Personally I've always seen it as being the day after Christmas Day.) I went to see the latest Harry Potter Film, which, I must say, I found very good entertainment and I'm told it's true to the book. Its been too long since I read the book to know myself. Despite it having been out for quite some time the Cinema was nearly full. Kids and all.

However, little things degraded the experience that I think a cinema trip should be. This video, thanks to @littlespy for drawing my attention to it, should explain a bit:


My beef wasn't with a kid, clearly not near the twelve age 'recommendation', talking during the opening sequence. I doubt very much that he wanted to see the film at that point - eventually he seemed to stop this - my guess is he fell asleep. But it was with the constant rustling throughout the film. I can deal with a bit of it - like if they're fishing some goodies out of their pick'n'mix. But no, crisp packets and who knows what else were the main culprits. One person doing so seemed to cue about three others. Some things I'm sure weren't sold in the Cinema.

So this gave me an idea - rustle-free packaging. I don't imagine it would be too difficult or expensive to produce rustle-free packaging for the confectionery available at the Cinema, which would improve the experience for all.So if you're into that kind of thing, give it a shot, for me.