York station is free WiFi hotspot – Digital Lifestyle – Macworld UK
York railway station has been fitted-out with free WiFi for travellers, National Express East Coast announced today.
I love York station and now I have another excuse to go and watch the trains. “I needed to pick up my email, so I went for a coffee at the footbridge cafe.”
Next month I am mounting my trusty steed and peddling round 100 miles of the Yorkshire Dales. It’s a sponsored ride to raise money for the Riding Lights Summer School.
To sponsor me follow this link and make your donation.
Specifically I’m doing the ride to raise money to bring four students from the Christian Palestinian Community in Bethlehem to the UK. They will join the summer school and return home with new skills to help their community to tell their story.
This follows from the Theatre Company’s production of Salaam Bethlehem last year.
Riding Lights – Past Shows
SALAAM BETHLEHEM
A Riding Lights Theatre Company ProductionFor the past 18 months we have been making steady progress towards a new play for the season of Advent running right up to Christmas 2007. A play with undertones for all our Christmases, Bridget Foremans SALAAM BETHLEHEM is set in the little town today where the streets are definitely darker beneath the concrete slabs but where the everlasting light still shines.
In May last year we met some of the dwindling Palestinian Christian community, discovering a remarkable range of people whose simple message to Riding Lights was Pray for us, tell our story, visit us.
Before anyone jumps to conclusions and because both inside and outside the Church issues to do with Israel seem to be so contentious… this is not a political play… or it is only political insofar as anything that deals with people is naturally political. We are not colouring in a new roadmap for the Middle East peace process. We are seeking to stand alongside brothers and sisters in the church of Christ. And how grateful all of us should be that they are still there.
Apple United Kingdom – Press Releases
O2 and Apple today announced that the innovative iPhone 3G will be available in the UK and Ireland on July 11th. iPhone 3G combines all the revolutionary features of iPhone with 3G networking that is twice as fast as the first generation iPhone, built-in GPS for expanded location based mobile services, and iPhone 2.0 software …….
I bought an iPhone last year much to the derision of my brother who said I should have waited for the 3G model. Well I might have been a bit hasty – but at least O2 is offering me the upgrade to the new phone for nothing and if I want 16Gb of storage I can have it for a relatively small payment. Roll on July 11th …. built in GPS – mmmm
Decorating our office is to blame for the famine of entries on this blog recently. The office is one of those daunting areas of the house when it comes to decorating. It was full of at least fifteen years of accumulating “useful” things, piles of old magazines, boxes of photographs and loads of what can only be described as junk. Then there are the shelves of books, desks, computers and other legit stuff that the normal life of a teacher and home business depend on.
So it all had to come out. There are three other bedrooms upstairs and they each filled up as we emptied the office. Now it’s almost finished and we’re moving stuff back in. We sorted some rubbish and unwanted things on the way out but now that the new office is shiny clean and bright we are being even more discriminating about what ranks as essential on the way back in. We like the new space we’ve created and the home workplace is taking shape.
There are a few more shelves to fill today and boxes to unpack but it’ll soon be done. That done just leaves a cupboard to build and some tiles to fit behind the wash basin.
So for once “new wallpaper” isn’t for a virtual desktop on my Mac, it’s the real thing made out of trees and recycled stuff. It’s an odd thing isn’t it. Eleven yard rolls 21 inches wide – it took ages to select the right pattern and colour. All that sticky paste and cutting, sliding into place and trimming to ceiling and floor. A palaver at best and downright frustrating most of the time. I’ll post a picture of the new office when it’s presentable.
Have a good weekend
