How I got attached to Thunderbird
We’ve all done it – you send an email saying “I’m attaching my essay/file/picture” or whatever, and then if you’re lucky, 30 seconds later, you realise that you’ve sent it…
1984 comes to 2010 – schools, IT and BETT
Spent the afternoon at BETT yesterday, a trade show for educational technology. One reason for going was to drop in on Andrew Holdsworth’s Percy Parker’s Flying Bathtub, just published by…
Why your Wii board might be worth £11,000
Wii board helps physios strike a balance after strokes Amazing article in the latest New Scientist about how the data supplied on foot pressure from a Wii balance board is…
More PowerPoint pain
I guess it’s almost official then, now that it’s a story on the BBC news site: PowerPoint presentations really do suck. Click here for some wonderful examples. My favourite ‘worst…
Wirelesslessness
For the first time in 7 years, I’m without wireless broadband at home due to some fault with the phone socket, or maybe a squirrel eating the cable. After the…
Only connect…
As I’ve remarked before, it’s not often that this blog does exactly what it says on the tin (music, dance and IT), however today was one of those days when…