10 reasons why everyone should have a blog

1. Use it as a diary - If you have a rubbish memory then why not write down details about your holiday, weekend or whatever. Add photo's links to relevant sites and in years to come you can look back and recall the things you got up to

2. Soap box - Got a lot to say? Why not use your blog to exercise your creative writing skills. There are loads of examples of people writing political or other opinion related articles. If it's worth reading you will find that more and more people visit your blog - you could be famous!!

3. Use it for work - Lots of people (not me) use their Blog to discuss and share work related ideas and topics. Works very well for IT techie stuff, but equally for any discipline where advice and best practise is a valuable commodity.

4. Integrate to facebook - Using a facebook application like RSS Connect you can have you blog on facebook. You can even publish entries to your newsfeed keeping facebook as your main update source for friends and family

5. Twitter your blog - Use twitter to keep people updated with whats new on your blog. Get past the 140 character limit

6. Update anywhere - You can update your blog via e-mail. So on your mobile, at home, at work - where ever you want.

7. Add media to your blog - These days you can publish videos, pictures, music, documents anything you want to your blog. Check out www.qik.com which lets you send videos from your mobile direct to your blog!

8. It's so easy to do. Go to http://www.blogger.com or any other blog hosting site and follow the instructions. Takes 10 mins and you can then begin to personalise your blog as you go along.

9. Sharpen your HTML skills - Since your blog is basically a HTML web page, if you know HTML you can use it to customise the page and add your own look & feel.

10. Add stuff to your blog - There are 1000's of templates, gadgets and plug-ins for the main blogs - so a lot of the hard work has been done for you.

See you on the net

Summary of all my blackberry apps

Blackberry
Qik Share video with facebook, email etc
Palringo IM (FB chat, MSN and lots more)
iSkoot Skype
Googlemaps for blackberry
opera mini Browser
Twitterberry Twitter client
Underground map Tube map
BB Tetris Tetris
Facebook Facebook client

QIK | Streaming video right from your phone

Back in London

After 2 weeks working from home following my minor opp (having metal plate and screws removed from my left ankle) I am back in the London office. It's been fantastic spending so much time with Nanette and the girls. During this time Maisy started sitting up and talking loads more, Hattie sleeps on her tummy now and both are saying da da da da da! Having said all that, although working from home is nice you do feel very disconnected from work and it's good to see people again. Anyway best get on with some work..

Easter bank holiday

Although we nearly had a complete sun-bypass bar a few hours on Monday, it's been a nice 4 days. On Friday we went to Dads where the kids were really on form. We popped out for a drive as it was raining and visited Battlers Green Farm Village. Was OK, nice farm shop. Popped into the tea rooms where I embarrassed myself by calling a little girl a little boy - doh! We drove back via where we were I was brought up in Well End in Borehamwood. We stayed over at Dads and in the morning I took both the girls into dad after their 7am bottle feed. He seemed to love it! We popped into Mums for a few hours which was also good, and then headed on back to Surrey.

Sunday we chilled, went to Shere in the afternoon. We mooched about, had a snack in the William Bray (used to be Prince of Wales). Supposedly its owned by Top Gears Richard Hammond? Fed the girls in their and they were angels.

Monday went to Guildford with Martha and had dinner with her and Simon. All in all, very relaxing weekend!