Karen Brookes

A beautiful hair salon in Giffnock

Presenting Property

Some really stylish Interior styling services and solutions

Craufurdland

A country estate specialising in ecological woodland burials

Bismarck & Herring Photography

The photography portfolio of longtime hodgers.com collaborator Steven Jones

Joel Kafetz

The personal website and showreel of the budding TV presenter

The Learning English Blogs transform the concept of blogging from an individual pursuit into a collaborative learning process.

The blogs retain a rich vein of individual expression since the ‘student blogger’ writes about topics of interest to them. A ‘teacher blogger’ prepares posts in response to the student’s writings giving feedback on good language use, specific student mistakes and typical language errors, all within the dynamic of a content-based, personalised and meaningful dialogue.

A global audience contributes to the learning by completing the teacher tasks, providing words of encouragement to the student and giving their opinions on not only language use but also the topics under discussion – a rich source of additional material for the teacher.

This process results in a simple one-to-one blogging relationship creating a one-to-many learning environment, that continues long after each blog post.

British Council website

You might remember this similar post a couple of years ago.

My pal Rachel is an artist and printmaker. She's just launched her excellent new portfolio website (built by hexapus).

Home comforts

HOW are the precious folk at the BBC coping with their move from the refined west end to Govan, you may or may not wonder.

Well, while their neighbours in Govan go down to an ice-cream van for their smokes, Nurofen and single nougats, the BBC types now have a lunchtime van delivery from their favourite deli on Byres Road which they were all missing. They can order their couscous, asparagus and chervil pasta salad, and goats' cheese and sunblushed tomato filo parcels online before 11am and it is delivered two hours later.

And no strident chimes of Greensleeves from the van - the staff are sent an e-mail when it arrives.

Yes, it's tough out there in Govan, but the plucky BBC types are surviving.

- The Herald diary

UPDATE: This Facebook application lets you check the menu each day from the comfort of, er, Facebook.

As far as I can trace, the only score line similar to this in matches between East Fife and Forfar was Forfar 5 East Fife 4 in a Division Two match on 22 April 1964.

More detail from Gmaps Pedometer

On Sunday 27 May 2007, I achieved the perfect game at Wii Sports bowling.

I was particularly delighted for two reasons:-

• It was done both in competition with three other players and in full view of the majority of my pals; and
• It laid to rest the ghost of Super Monkey Bowling (the pressure got to me and I missed my best shot at a maximum by just one strike a couple of years ago).

My technique is to shuffle as far over to the right as possible and bowl straight ahead - but with as much counter-clockwise twist as I can muster. (In Super Monkey Bowling, if I remember correctly, I stayed in the middle, stopped the swinging arm when it was pointing right and used maximum counter-clockwise twist.)

Perhaps I should have just built a robot instead...

Today the BBC Radio Scotland website - my pet project for the last couple of months - relaunched. Wil was responsible for the new look; Ryan programmed the labour-saving back-end & some of the front end; Carol, Alan and Jo prepared all the content; and I built the rest of the front-end and kinda ran the show.

The new site offers some significant improvements over the old one (live since the summer of 2003!):-

• Schedule listings for individual days, the coming week and the previous week - all with Listen Again links where available;
• Permanent pages for the station's presenters;
• Now & Next listings;
• An RSS Feed off all the daily updates from Carol and the team;
• No more popups for playlists and email - only the Radio Player launches separately - and a Programme A-Z page to replace what was a dropdown menu;
• Predictable, hackable URIs across the whole site and some splendidly semantic markup;