Its official, i’ve managed to keep some plants alive! I bought this succulent a few months ago to plant in an old tea pot I rescued from Dover transport museum and its still here! I’ve also only lost one plant from the forest I bought to decorate my desk! I think theres hope for me yet!

Plants even I can keep alive was originally posted at Femgeek.co.uk

The sun came out this week and we went and sat in the park with the giant tulips and discussed some exciting ideas!

The bloggess‘s book arrived and I can’t wait to spend next weekend in bed reading it!

My Hamtaro watch also arrived, the second hand is a little hamster that ticks around the watch. Not everyone appreciated it, but I think its awesome!

I went bowling on friday night with the guys from work so I stayed at Gregs friday night. In the morning we put together his lego dalek kit before I went off to the theatre to see legally blonde. I was lucky enough to be allowed to put together one dalek! I called him Terry, short for TERRORence!

This week and the last was originally posted at Femgeek.co.uk

Came across a great website in my japanese learning studies a few weeks ago, Tofugu.

They do some pretty handy guides, one of which is about how to type in Hiragana or Katakana on a mac. You can see it here. Much easier than writing it into google transliterate and copy and pasting it into whatever document you’re working on!

The only down side is I keep forgetting I’ve left it in Hiragana, I tend to type without looking at what i’m writing so I’ve sent a few garbled tweets recently! I have to keep deleting them!

がんばって！

How to type in Hiragana on a Mac was originally posted at Femgeek.co.uk

Everybody’s favourite freak fish died yesterday.

His mother and all his siblings were guppys and yet he looked suspiciously like a platy with an elongated body! There were no female platys in the tank he was born in only one male platy!

When he was born he stayed about 1cm long for months, even after two years he was much much smaller than his siblings.

Some people thought might have a recessive wild type gene or something, but we liked to think of him as a half guppy half platy, pluppy!

RIP Pluppy was originally posted at Femgeek.co.uk

My old domain is expiring next month so I imported the best posts from that site to here. There were only about five worth importing but a few 301 redirects later and my traffic has doubled. The circled dot is the Saturday I uploaded the new content.

Just goes to show how much of a better blogger I used to be!

Stats improving was originally posted at Femgeek.co.uk

Photo Time Capsule, April 25th to May 9th, 2011 was originally posted at Femgeek.co.uk

I’ve been experimenting with combining all my interests into one. I’ve decided to write a backbone app for learning japanese and host the code on github. What better way to learn?

I’ve codenamed it hAnki, after the popular SRS app, Anki. Its supposed to be a mobile app which will work in the browser as well.

It will use local storage which will then sync to a sql database, useful for when i’m commuting. So far you can view decks from the database, but theres no login and theres no way to view the flashcards yet. It also doesn’t work on a phone for some reason! So definitely a work in progress!

The API uses SlimFramework which is so simple and easy to use!

The overall framework is run using Backbone, with Underscore as the template engine. I’m using jQuery and jQuery mobile with iScroll.

I’ve loved working with Github, its what svn should be! I even did some rebasing, I think I got it right!

Backbone, Github and Japanese was originally posted at Femgeek.co.uk

I’ve made some japanese flash cards useful for practising your writing. Just pick out a card and write it’s english/japanese equivalent, or lay them all out face down and try and match them. It helps to have a guillotine or craft knife when cutting them out. You’ll want to print these onto card too.

I’ve included a printable PDF and the indesign file in the zip. Click here to download.

Japanese Hiragana FlashCards was originally posted at Femgeek.co.uk

Photos from Harrods

Photo Time Capsule, April 9th to April 23rd, 2011 was originally posted at Femgeek.co.uk

These flower cards are awesome! My mum loved this one. Although she was a little surprised to get a card a week early…!

I was really worried that the flowers would be crushed, have fallen out or just be completely dead but that wasn’t the case. The box they were delivered in was tough, so no crushed flowers!

Its worth noting the box is too big for your letter box. But then how often do I get flowers delivered to me at work!? (ok so they were in a sealed box on my desk for most of the day, but I knew they were there!!)

Its such a great idea. You even get a little pipette to water the flowers! (Not pictured because I accidentally knocked in on the floor while taking photos and the cat was chasing it around the room…so much for all that money we spend on cat toys!)

You can get your flower cards here! You can customise the label on the front too! Its like a certain space pig site only it looks so much nicer on the mantle piece!

A Flower Card for Mothers Day! was originally posted at Femgeek.co.uk