On English Russia there’s a post about a scale model of the entirety of Moscow. Quite an undertaking.

On a similar note, there’s a good chance my father’s model railway should be fully operational soon. This is a 47ft long beast of an O gauge layout. At the moment, it’s stored in his Tentmaker book storeroom, and that’s where it’s going to be kept for the foreseeable future. The layout was the labour of love of his Model Railway club. It is so long that the club were only ever able to fully erect it at model railway exhibitions, and only two of the many railway boards were permanently seen in the clubroom.

This morning, I completed my application for TiM and Cumbria Christian Youth Camp.

I am planning to be an Assistant Tent Leader in Cumbria. I was very privileged to be invited by Rachel Stalker to the camp, and I’m looking forward to it. I am also really looking forward to TiM. I was originally thinking of going on TeenStreet, but I feel like some other people could benefit from that more. I already want to be a missionary, but I want to be a missionary now, so I strongly wanted to do some missionary work during the Summer. God’s certainly answered my prayers, and I have at least 3 weeks of mission work lined up ^__^. My holiday is a lot longer than 3 weeks though… Hmmm…

Last night Monika reinstated cake day, and we had a nice big angel food cake, full of gracefully whipped eggs. That was some cake, I tell you. The name really doesn’t appeal to me, aber es hat mir doch gut geschmeckt. We also watched Forrest Gump.

I was going to go Ice Skating this morning with Jonney and Monika, but I was sure I had other priorities that were mre important. I prayed about it, and thought a bit, then remembered I was visiting a lady to see about Russian Tuition. It was a blessing I remembered. That went well, and it inspired me to learn again, which my classes at SFC really hadn’t done.

God Bless, and I hope if you’re reading this you’re having a good day.

Well, I thought I’d take this opportunity to bring you up to speed on the latest happenings with me.

Frolicking in Flamborough

Slacking in School

God Bless,
Peter

As you can see from a very recent post, I’ve been looking for MP3 software that allows me to bookmarks specific points in an audio track. I’d been search for hours, HOURS, and nothing. Eventually, I prayed about it with my mum, and went back on line. In 20 seconds, I had found the perfect program. Foobar with this plugin.

Please be warned, however, not just any version of foobar will work. You have to use Foobar 0.8 (any subversion should do). I posted this partly because I thought Jonney might also like it, being the talented linguist he is.

Does anyone know of a free program that can be used to add multiple bookmarks to mp3 files? This would be immensely useful in learning Russian. We have such features at Sixth Form’s language labs, via digital control of tapes, but I haven’t seen such a thing on PC except ones that are only for:

1. Members of Indiana University
2. Linux
3. PDAs

Never thought I’d say this, but I think I could get along with this cat.

English Russia was something to be admired. Please see a more recent post about it.

Computer problems hampered my Russian work for a while, but today those problems were fixed for the foreseeable future, and I have a chance to do Russian work (required DVD player attached to compy) so intense it entitles me to a break. Good thing.

To add to this happiness, Pandora’s been all thumbs up for a while. Maybe they’ve changed the code. But it’s fantastic. It’s actually playing what I want.
I will use this break to tell you to enable cleartype. Unless you’re Ally, you won’t look back. It should be enabled by default, and I have no idea why it isn’t. Fantastic stuff.

Secondly, the performancing plugin for firefox is as good as it comes. Blogging just got better. It allows blogging while browsing, quick switching between code and regular modes and wordpress categories. It’s what Writely should be but isn’t. I hear Flock helps Writely, but I haven’t checked it out, because new software is very rarely a time-saver for me, who is a waster. On my first impressions I’d say it might be to writing blogs as RSS is to reading them, but perhaps that’s a bit extreme. Speaking of RSS, Sage is my favourite RSS reader. I just like how it’s simple, and when you click on an article, it brings up the webpage itself, not the plugin’s interface. I like that in an RSS reader.