Have you seen this video from astronaut Chris Hadfield? It's a great music video (the first one shot in space I think?), featuring Chris singing Space Oddity by David Bowie on the International Space Station! If you have time, take a look at his other videos from the ISS at life on board, they're fascinating!

So next month Windows are promising to bring us a new update of Windows 8, in what it calls a 'major update' to the OS (known as Windows Blue). But with the sales of PC machines dropping will there be enough in the update to keep users enticed? I'm not convinced, really. It seems a lot lately that Microsoft are trying a little 'too' hard to convice users that the Microsoft platform is still usable and funky. They've taken to the design extremes with the Metro tiles look in Windows 8, but deep down the functionality is poor and the user experience is confusing and, to be honest, highly annoying.

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Typographic Verse - Creating the slogan for 2013 using typography and Proverbs 16:3

I don't often blog about these types of sites, but I came across this site last week and thought it was worth mentioning. The site is CheapDisabilityAids.co.uk and provides a fantastic range of products for people with disabilities. Having a son with Autism and Christmas so close it was a great time to find this website. Choosing presents for a child that doesn't understand Christmas and why we give presents can be difficult to explain. Even harder when the child can't give suggestions as to what they might like. This website has a lot of great gifts for children that need sensory toys and they're at reasonable costs too.