The weather in Leeds lately has been very random. Sunny one minute, torrential rain and thunder the next.

To help others know what weather I'm experiencing, I've made a handy ASP.NET control that displays the weather in Leeds. It shows a picture of me experiencing that weather and can also tell you the weather in several other places I've been to.

It can also change how the whole site looks based on the weather, but it doesn't do this at the moment. You can see this control on the right hand side of my blog's homepage.

I've just recently started leading another art project. This time I'm working with the adult group from Pyramid of Arts. The BBC have very kindly leant us some sound recording equipment. We've used this to record some sounds and we're going to splice them together into something musical.

We spent the first few weeks of the project exploring sound. Making it, listening to it, drawing it and recording it. We've just got back from a sound recording trip to Thwaite Mill. We recorded a huge array of sounds made by the mill and pretty much anything else we could find that made sounds.

So, now we've got all our sounds, we just need to put them together into something musical. The difficult part is not going to be finding good sounds, it's going to be choosing the best ones from the hundreds we've got.

I wanted a place to bring all my projects together and I also wanted to create a small web application in ASP.NET. So, I'm starting this blog using a blogging package I'm creating called gBlog. It would have been easier to use someone elses, but I wanted to learn something from doing this.

This blog will be about all my projects, plus other stuff I'm up to. Some of my projects are quite geeky and some are more arty. This brings them all together.

I'm also going to add some of my old projects that I'm pleased with. Anything you find listed before this post was added later really, but with the date when I did it.

I hope you enjoy reading about my projects, and get in touch if you're interested.

For a long time I've felt the Easter eggs you buy in the shops were missing something. There's never enough chocolate, and when I was a kid, the chocolate treats used to be inside.

This year I decided to make my own. I made a mould out of paper mache and cling-film and coated the inside with chocolate, a lot of chocolate. The finished product was fantastic. It looks a bit like a dinosaur egg, which wasn't quite what I intended, but I think it adds to its charm.

Next year, I might try and perfect the mould to get a smoother outside. I might also try and make it twice as big. Mmmmmmmmm, chocolate!