Misc

My former primary school has become a mini- chernobyl  (minus the radioactivity) after being abandoned in 2007. The site has been left to degrade as the local council is apparently unable to sell the land.  What fascinates me about this site is not the lack of human activity, but that it exists in the centre of a fully functioning town! Hidden away behind a handful of active council buildings, the barren and bleak landscape is all the more bewildering in the winter sun.  Larger versions of these photos can be downloaded on  Flickr .

Out of 28,000 teachers who qualified in 2010, just three individuals had a computer-related degree . This makes me wonder just how tech-savvy a lot of 10 to 15 year olds really are. When I was 10 in 1996, my parents purchased our first ever home computer. It had the latest Intel Pentium processor that clocked in at a whopping 120Mhz. To put that in perspective, most iPhones today run at ten times this speed.  Things were tricky at first. Windows 95 took awhile to get used to and most video game developers still preferred MS-DOS as a platform because it provided a more stable environment. Direct X was in its infancy and the Xbox was over a decade away. Microsoft's idea of Plug and Play technology rarely applied and/or worked.  Fifa 96 was a Christmas present that year, but due to MS-DOS being unable to correctly identify the computers CD-ROM drive or sound card, I didn't get to play it until February 1997.  When attempting to run the game, inste...