Tomorrow the OFSTED people come to visit. The theme of their visit is our post-16 part and other random stuff including several “types” of student. We’ve all been getting prepared, writing lesson plans and making sure everything is as it should be. Three inspectors are coming to visit for the day and will be wandering into lessons at random to see what’s going on.

Considering I teach a year 9 lesson in the post-16 block that contains several types of student they are coming to look at, what’s the betting someone wanders into my lesson. It’s also the lesson where the kids like to mess around and cause hassle, that I have to cross the entire school grounds in less than a minute to get to on time, that is in a classroom where there is no teacher PC so I have to take my laptop that takes five minutes to boot up and notice the network.

Knowing my luck they’ll be sat in there having a quiet five minutes writing notes when we arrive.

If they do, they’ll see a fine example of how to use cold weather to control children since I don’t let them into the 6th form block until they’re quiet and calm.

I’m selling my N810. I want to buy a real satnav for my car; rather than having to mentally process MaemoMapper maps I want someone to tell me to “turn right in 0.1 miles” and “in 0.4 miles keep left”. After getting my iPod Touch, my N810’s main use was to stop me getting lost when driving. A task it performed in an adequate way, providing I turned it on fifteen minutes before setting off, and didn’t mind a convoluted way of programming routes into it.

It works much better as a portable web browser and general computer thing

There’s nothing wrong with it, you even get the box.

It’s on eBay…