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!

Mozilla Thunderbird: "Mozilla Thunderbird - Milestone 0.6"

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"

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"

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"

Mozilla Firefox - The Browser, Reloaded

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

Israel deploys nuclear arms in submarines



news about the current colflict in the middle east

Designing web pages - the clean and simple way!

The CSS challenge

Hot on the heels of a popular web design demonstration at CSS zen garden, No Sight At Night has launched their own redesign challenge, asking designers to create new looks for the site using cascading style sheets (CSS), with all submissions licensed under a Creative Commons license for others to share.

Details of the Single Award ICT GCSE

Edexcel : Qualifications : GCSE

Details of the Applied ICT course

Edexcel : Qualifications : GCSE (vocational subjects)

Identity Theft

A worrying trend - keep your details safe.


The Register

A stupid thief:

The Register

Extending your browser Part I

A web browser, "out of the box" does quite a lot, but there are always some cool little extras that it would be nice if it did do, too.

Here are 2 add-ons that apply to both IE and Mozilla.

1) The Stumbleupon toolbar. This works on the idea that most people only visit a relatively small number of web sites, often on the recommendation of a friend. This tool bar suggests sites to you, and allows you to rate that sites that you visit - in time, the suggestions that it makes become more and more appropriate to your profile. (I find that I want to go back to around 70-80% of the sites that it kicks up!).
To get it, you go to the website, and click on the link - as simple as that, for both IE and Mozilla.

2) The Google toolbar. This adds all the functionality of the Google search engine to your toolbar, and then some. Extra features include News searches, pop-up blocking(!), search-within-page and site, search-term-highlighting, and integration with Blogger.com (this site).

You will need to download an exe file (a program that installs the toolbar) for IE. For mozilla, go to mozdev (The mozilla developer site), and select the link installation. This will take you to the page with the different versions on it. Select one, and choose install. This will install automatically, and become available when you restart Mozilla.