I’ve already written about my experience with baby sign-language, but that was when my first child was just under two. We’ve now got a second child who is almost two who has taken very differently to baby sign-language. So this now gives a contrast between how different children sometimes take to baby sign-language more than [...]

The latest version of Firefox is now available to download. Firefox 3.6 is the latest release following on just over 6 months after the successful release of Firefox version 3.5.

Although the description for this book suggests it would be useful for a wide range of people, it is going to be of more use to health and safety professionals rather than lay people with health and safety responsibilities. The book consists primarily of bullet points summarising the legislation with little or no further explanation. [...]

I’m always on the lookout for new ways to make First Aid and related topics a bit more interesting and fun to learn for firstaidquiz.com. Recently on Facebook a friend of mine posted some text encoded using the NATO phonetic alphabet, which got me thinking wouldn’t it be good to have a quick tool you [...]

Happy New Year to all my family, friends and visitors to my websites. Looking back at last years resolutions I think I did quite well. The first was to use the Wii Fit more and get fitter. Well I certainly achieved that one! Although the Wii Fit turned out to be a very small part [...]

First 3 chapters cover the legal requirements of health and safety from the Health and Safety at Work act to reporting under RIDDOR. These consist of short introductory paragraphs with collection of extracts and bullet point information. There are some positive parts to this approach as it cuts down on the waffle and has just [...]

This screenshot shows the cpanel bandwidth for my “Unmetered” account with Compila for firstaidquiz.com. The site was down again briefly last week due to exceeding the so called “unmetered bandwidth”. Fortunately on this occasion I saw this soon after the site stopped working and was therefore able to get them to rectify the problem. Unfortunately [...]

New fire safety campaign by Hereford and Worcester fire service highlights the risks of overloaded sockets and Christmas trees. It includes a video created by the fire service showing what damage could be done. Christmas Fire Safety Video Don’t let fire spoil your Christmas. Here are the 12 days rules of Christmas. Never leave candles [...]

I’ve been on a diet for almost 6 months during which I’ve managed to lose 5 stone 10 lbs. I’ve gone from being well into the obese range to just the top of my ideal weight range based on my BMI (weight to height indicator). I started the diet on 7 June 2009, finishing on [...]

I’ve created a new improved photo gallery which is now in use on the Emergency Services and First Aid photo gallery on First Aid Quiz.com. The new photo gallery is Ajax based. Assuming you have JavaScript enabled this means that you’ll be able to view photos without having the full page refreshed and can view [...]