Little Black Spy Bag
Hilary Duff has one, Nicole Richie has one and the Olsen twins have one each. The Spy Bag by Fendi is pure fashion: beautiful, stylish and most important of all, desirable. Created by Karl Lagerfield, the creative director of Fendi, this is not a classic handbag in the style of Chanel or […]
Designing for SEO
The reason why Search Engine Optimisation is so hard to master is that it involves so many different elements. You have to find the keywords, you need to be able to write SEO friendly copy, your link strategy has to be top-notch and you need to be able to convert those hard-won visitors […]
Brain training games first hit the big time with Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training. It sold over 2.3 million copies in its first year on release and its sequel sold over 850,000 before it was released. However it wasn’t the first game for brain training. Chess and similar games like Go have long been seen […]
Can you Train Your Brain to Happiness?
Brain training is growing in popularity. Software such as the Dr Kawashima for the Nintendo DS have been a huge hit around the world. Often selling to people who would of never of thought of buying a games console. In Japan, Nintendos and Brain Training software have become […]
The Treachery of Images
As a surrealist, Rene Magritte pushed the boundaries of art and our understanding of the world we live in. His art was visually striking, painted in a bold but realistic fashion, but it is the intellectual content of his work, such as The Treachery of Images (better known as Ceci n’est pas […]
Look on most websites about dyslexia and you will see a long list of famous people who supposedly had dyslexia. Some of these are easily checked because the person is still alive (e.g. Richard Branson) but mostly its people like Leonardo De Vinci. People who were dead long before we discovered dyslexia but someone has […]
Ask any dyslexia teacher and they will tell you that dyslexia is a life long condition. The symptoms can be managed so that the child will be able to read, write and spell at a reasonable level but they will always be dyslexic. Anyone standing up and saying that it doesn’t have to be that […]
As a small child I spent a few months in California and at the school they used to the Montessori method. A technique that takes a multi-sensory approach to teaching. I can’t remember learning anything specific but I do remember that being a friendly and happy period of my school life. Over on Myomancy, the […]
Sometimes it is hard for parents to tell the good information from the bad about dyslexia. Omega-3 fish oils is a particularly troublesome area. Many companies hype them as miracle cures for a range of problems. Newspapers run big stories on how they can change terrible children into bright, obedient angels and the next […]
There are two problems about reading books when you are growing up with dyslexia. Firstly books aimed at your age group are too hard to read and the content of those aimed at younger children is too simple. Secondly the child heros of the books don’t appeal. Being dyslexic brings a unique set of challengers […]