Tool Bar Functions

My name is Mel. I come from Cornwall in the UK.
Here is a link on flickr to a photo of Constantine the village where I grew up

photo test

Blogger Test in 182-1003

I'm using Firefox to access Blogger and i can see the text tool bar, insert links and pictures in my New Post.
Let's see if I can save it as a draft which we couldn't do on IE.
OK I've saved it as a draft and can access it in Edit posts. Now let's publish it.
Hurrah!! Publishing is no problem with Firefox.
Let's all start using Firefox rather than IE. You can download Firefox for Windows free here
onto your own computer at home.
Next time you are in the Call lab don't open IE, open Firefox.
Good Luck

Unitec Student Union 'Sounds in the Sun'

Sopeng and Ally came with me to the Orientation day 'Sounds in the Sun' hosted by Unitec Student Union. There was quite a festival atmosphere there.

What could they possibly be doing? And did they ever win?

More competitions.....

....and then there was the free coca cola if you did 10 star jumps.

New Design in China - tourist guide in British newspaper and exhibition in London

As we've been talking about how Beijing is changing, I thought you might be interested in an article I read at the weekend in my favourite British newspaper about new design in China.
The article is a guide for tourists visiting Beijing & Shanghai this year and recommends both the must see modern architectural achievements along with some more traditional buildings. The article mentions that as more and more high rise architectural marvels appear on the skyline a debate has begun about preserving the traditional residential neighbourhoods known as 'hutongs' and courtyard houses called 'siheyuan'. I like this picture of a hutong from Flickr. I'm not sure if this is a hutong or siheyuan. Perhaps you could enlighten me, what do you think? Look at the comments from 'airchild'. This looks like a siheyuan.
The article also mentions a new exhibition opening at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in March which showcases new cutting edge design in Beijing, Shenzhen & Shanghai from architecture and art to fashion design and restaurants. Check out the exhibitions web site. I quite liked the 'Commune by the Great Wall' in Beijing, the 'yoga laptop' and 'The Times Magazine Supplement photo? in Shanghai and the 'Youth and Beauty poster series' from Shenzhen.

Congratulations to Bob 'twins father'

All the teachers and all the students on TBS 2 would like to say CONGRATULATIONS and best wishes to Bob (Stream A) and his wife who have just had (given birth to!!) two beautiful baby boys - yes twins! Why not visit Bob's blog and look at the photos of their new sons. Next time you see Bob say congratulations to him.