Archive for July, 2005
- Off line soon :: Not around for a bit :: Sunday, July 24th, 2005 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Wood photos :: Trees and shadows in local wood. Signs of human activity but no one seen. :: Saturday, July 23rd, 2005 :: Posted in Photos | Comments Off
- Blogs and forums :: Some differences between blogs and forums - blogs might encourage student involvement more by being less of a 'performance' but forums might be better for a structured activity :: Saturday, July 23rd, 2005 :: Posted in ILT | Comments Off
- Every crowd has a silver lining :: 419 scams amazingly attract 20,000 people to part with real money. :: Thursday, July 21st, 2005 :: Posted in Forensic | Comments Off
- Symbols – a cautionary tale :: Beware the use of symbols of a graphic nature in maths lessons - you may have students who take the lesson the wrong way :: Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off
- HTML entities :: Maths on the Web is a problem - html entities can provide a limited range of symbols - and I like the immediacy of a blogging approach to Maths. Else it is down to PDFs or scans or Whiteboard captures. :: Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 :: Posted in Maths, Web | Comments Off
- Bridge and entry :: Spray can tags on a steel bridge and a newly painted wall :: Tuesday, July 19th, 2005 :: Posted in Photos | Comments Off
- Eyes everywhere :: Becky - the 15 year old school refuser - came out with a tirade against surveillance and CCTV, eyes everywhere. She may have had a point. :: Monday, July 18th, 2005 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Altitude of the Sun and Moon :: A spreadsheet uses simplified low precision formulas to calculate the altitude of the Sun and the Moon for each hour of a given day. Change the latitude to see the effect of moving into the arctic circle. Change the date to see the effect of slipping towards Winter. :: Sunday, July 17th, 2005 :: Posted in Maths, Notes | Comments Off
- A r i a l :: Where did Arial come from? The history of a computer font as told by a typographer. :: Friday, July 15th, 2005 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Cookies and privacy :: That 'no entry' sign causes lots of trouble :: Friday, July 15th, 2005 :: Posted in ILT | Comments Off
- Food miles :: How far has your dinner travelled? Perhaps half way round the planet! :: Friday, July 15th, 2005 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off
- Make haste, slowly :: "We live in a world where instant gratification is not fast enough, in a world of not only speed dating, but even of speed yoga, said Mr Honor?©." :: Thursday, July 14th, 2005 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Dog Star Man :: Stan Brakhage - film maker :: Sunday, July 10th, 2005 :: Posted in Photos | Comments Off
- Sven Jaschan gets suspended sentence :: Sasser worm author gets suspended sentence from German court. :: Saturday, July 9th, 2005 :: Posted in Forensic | Comments Off
- Key Skills 4 u :: Web site aims to motivate keyskills lessons - self test quizzes and practice tests. :: Thursday, July 7th, 2005 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off
- Chi-squared data: flies :: Six datasets based on reproduction experiments with fruit flies - used for chi-squared statistics calculations :: Tuesday, July 5th, 2005 :: Posted in Maths | Comments Off
- Xbox chipping and ELSPA :: The European Copyright Directive makes it an offence to alter games consoles so as to circumvent games copying controls. ELSPA has successfully prosecuted a case recently in the UK, and this raises issues about 'change of use' modification of platforms such as the xbox. :: Monday, July 4th, 2005 :: Posted in Forensic | Comments Off
- Bodmas goes Jakob :: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and the new Bodmas design is borrowed from Jakob Nielsen's personal site at http://useit.com/ :: Sunday, July 3rd, 2005 :: Posted in Notes, Web | Comments Off
- Local pictures :: Pictures around Birmingham city ring road :: Saturday, July 2nd, 2005 :: Posted in Photos | Comments Off
- User focus with goals :: “Many sites submitted had no concern for the user on the most basic levels. Rarely could you identify an idea or purpose behind the site, or name a possible user goal the site was intended to facilitate. There was no flow, no legibility, no usability. It wasn‚Äôt so much that the designers had contempt for [...] :: Friday, July 1st, 2005 :: Posted in Web | Comments Off
- Wireless :: * 128 kb/s * £13 for 24 hours connection time * I could be using this for heavy downloading * iBook needed the wireless card replacing as well as the combo drive but it is behaving now :: Friday, July 1st, 2005 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off