Thursday, September 23, 2004

Rather than using Microsoft's Internet Explorer, I have been using a new browser called Firefox. This has just reached version 1, and is way cool!

Firefox - Rediscover the web: "The world's best browser just got better. The new Firefox Preview Release is the award winning preview of Mozilla's next generation browser. Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely, and more efficiently than with any other browser. Make the switch today--Firefox imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so you have nothing to lose."

Friday, May 14, 2004

The first in an occasional series, here are some reminders about writing ....


  • Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
  • Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
  • And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction.
  • It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
  • Avoid cliches like the plague (they’re old hat).
  • Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
  • Be more or less specific.
  • Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
  • Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
  • No sentence fragments.
  • Contractions aren’t necessary and shouldn’t be used.
  • Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
  • Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it’s highly
    superfluous.


    Hope that this helps!

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Mozilla Thunderbird: "Mozilla Thunderbird - Milestone 0.6"

Friday, March 05, 2004

Skill: National Bureau for Students With Disabilities - Quiz - DDA Part 4 - how clued up are you?: "Disability Discrimination Act Part 4 - how clued up are you?Do this quiz"

ICT Procurement and Purchasing: "ICT Procurement and PurchasingSummary: Ensuring that inclusive design is taken into consideration within procurement and purchasing."

This article contains information about the need to consider the rights of disabled people to access ICT when purchasing equipment - useful for both the coursework project on how people with disabilities access ICT, and also, how the law affects people using ICT.
AbilityNet Factsheets : "AbilityNet’s Factsheets and Skillsheets have been written by our specialist team of assessors and give detailed information on a wide range of technology, services and organis"
Search results: "ICT and Disability: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)In December 2002, as a part of our 'Meet the Champions' series and a part of our special feat"

Monday, February 23, 2004

The Register: "Philips subsidiary Polymer Vision has unwrapped - literally - what it claims is the world's widest yet thinnest, most flexible TFT LCD panel."
Flexbeta - An MS Office Alternative: OpenOffice.org 1.1.1b Reviewed - Page 1: "An MS Office Alternative: OpenOffice.org 1.1.1b Reviewed"
The Israeli Post Office Break-In: "Last week a story came to life in Israeli news about a computer heist in an Haifa branch of the Israeli Postal Service, successfully stealing 56 thousand Shekels
The Register: "Trojans as spam robots: the evidence"

Friday, February 13, 2004

OSNews.com - Exploring the Future of Computing: "Mandrake 10 beta 2: A Personal Account By Eugenia Loli-Queru, submitted by Olivier Magere - Posted on 2004-02-12 19:20:06Cooker is a test distro and Mandrake has come up with the i"

Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Wednesday, February 04, 2004

The Register: "AMD still has Intel licked on mainstream desktop processor performance, beating even Intel's newly released 90nm 'Prescott' Pentium 4."

About Me

The one problem that I find as an ICT teacher is that all these kids get in the way of my interaction with the computers