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August 2007
Posts made in August 2007
Technoroopsi
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on August 31 2007 at 19:08
Oops. Apparently at some point I’d managed to turn off the pings to Technorati (and anywhere else). Hopefully they’ll get round to indexing what they missed now…
Maps Maps Maps!
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on August 29 2007 at 18:08
Via Google Operating System, FlashEarth in Google Earth, as a layer. Ooooh!
It Gets Easier Than This?
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on August 29 2007 at 18:08
Take a look at this GCSE Physics paper. Go on, see how many you think you can answer (don’t trust me; I really should be good at GCSE physics papers!) Now, they want to make that easier (answers within; alternatively BBC news coverage). How? Put the answers at the back?? [Actually, they could make it a bit easier by making some of the questions actually make sense…)
If you want brighter pupils, who are capable of studying science subjects at a higher level, then requiring less knowledge, lowering barriers is hardly how to do it. Try challenging them in interesting ways. Heaven forbid we might actually recognise the problems as poor teaching or something…
Food Pipe
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on August 26 2007 at 20:08
Thanks to Yahoo Pipes there’s now an RSS feed combining the main blog, Quick Thoughts, photos and links of the moment.
Chirp Chirp
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on August 26 2007 at 18:08
If your reading this via RSS (or indeed just looking at this single entry, and archive page, etc) then this may not make much sense. Try looking at the blog front page itself ;-) If you are looking at that page you may be wondering what that Quick Thoughts bar is at the top of the page. Let me explain…
Cool Image Resizing
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on August 22 2007 at 19:08
This is cool (not just the resizing bit—wait until the end for the object removal part, which is what really impressed me):
And not directly related, but while on the subject, some cool SVG stuff:
Why BBC iPlayer Is Actually Irrelevant
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on August 22 2007 at 19:08
Well, not actually this site (anymore), but its a timely representation. Like an old friend returning, Suprnova.org
I Was Wrong About Google Suggest
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on August 21 2007 at 21:08
When Firefox introduced Google suggest integration into the search bar I have was quiet sceptical that this was at all useful and wouldn’t, in fact, get in the way. I was wrong, it’s pretty damn useful, just not really for speeding up searches. It is useful for quickly doing sums (Google suggest includes Google’s calculator) and checking spelling. I very rarely found it useful for actual search though, apart from the one or two times it’s helped me find the proper term I’m probably looking for. Anyway, I was wrong, govna
[Incidentally, as far as improvements to the Firefox search box go, Second Search is the best]
Encrypted Post 2007-08-21
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on August 21 2007 at 21:08 You can decrypt this if you're friends
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Encrypted Post 2007-08-02
Posted
on August 2 2007 at 21:08 You can decrypt this if you're Hmm
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Encrypted Post 2007-08-21
Posted
on August 2 2007 at 18:08 You can decrypt this if you're Me
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Some Follow Up, Some New Stuff
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on August 1 2007 at 18:08
A collection of a few things which have caught my attention and I can’t really be bothered to from into fully coherent posts, given how long they’ve been lying around waiting to be posted as it is.
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