Scratch

I read about this thing called Scratch that is designed for kids to intoduce them to writing programs without it being too hard to put them off the whole thing. So naturally I have had a go. My big peeve about IT at school was that it just seemed like typing, the kind of thing you do in a boring office job. Not actually doing anything creative or intresting, so I think this is a good idea.

The program is quite fun. I don't think it's really for primary school kids, maybe 11 upwards, but then again this may just be me being a bit thick haha. Once you have made a game or an animation you can share it with others on their site.

I quite liked it, if you have some free time, check it out.

Yes, we know we dominate...

Young women are now the most dominant group online in the UK, according to new research from net measurement firm Nielsen/NetRatings.

Women in the 18 - 34 age group account for 18% of all online Britons.

They also spend the most time online - accounting for 27% more of the total UK computer time than their male counterparts.

BBC, 17/05/07

It turns out the most popular sites are about babies and clothes. It's nice to see how far we've come girls. Also very popular are social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook (that I can relate too). Also heartening to read is that we are kicking arse on online games too, now accounting to 38% of game players. Why I am blogging about this? Well apart from a classic bit of girls beating the boys, it's a bit interesting from an online marketing point. I'm no expert at the actual 'marketing' side of things but I'm guessing that the methods you'd use to sell to men and women are going to be different.

New Zealand

I have been contacing some Australian and New Zealand ISPs over today and yesterday. It is annoying as so many won't put their email addresses on their page, instead they have these contact forms which I am loathed to use.

It looks like I might get to do something for which isp which is gettin a bit of a major reworking at the moment, so that should be good as I think I have emailed most of the dial up ISPs in the english speaking world.

Eurovision tonight! I am very excited!

I am also having a mySQL nightmare at the moment it is depressing me greatley.

Right off to have a nutricious ready meal before the Eurovision action kicks off.