Archive for February, 2009

Twitter Mosaic

Sue Waters (@suewaters) shared a link on Twitter a short while ago to a site that generates a mosaic from either your Twitter friends or followers. Click here to see my twitter network displayed as a couple of mosaics! You too could have a mosaic made up of your Twitter friends or followers by clicking [...]

Coldplay – Life In Technicolor ii (HD)

This latest Coldplay video made me smile. Show it to your children, they’ll love it! Presented in HD (720p high definition), made possible by the YouTube HD Code Hack courtesy of My Digital Life. If no video is displayed, it’s probably because YouTube is blocked by your establishment’s web filtering policy. Sorry!

Tech Forum – February 2009

My colleagues and I are hosting a schools’ technical forum this afternoon at 15:00. I put together a Wordle image of the agenda items which clearly shows the topic of the moment. Non-UK visitors may wish to see what BSF (Building Schools for the Future) is all about by clicking here. Secondary/high school technical staff [...]

Crossing the Line: Gone

Crossing The Line: Gone from Nick Bennett on Vimeo. A fascinating tale of an American who moved to North Korea. Thanks once again to SwissMiss for sharing.

SIMS and Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Capita announced at the last LA Software Update Seminar that they are considering using the Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Engine to power SIMS reports in the next decade. As a result, SIMS may well be migrated to MS SQL Server 2008 in spring 2010. The first reports to use the new engine will replace those [...]

Return of the Red Dwarf Posse

Credit crunch? Economic downturn? Who cares! Red Dwarf is back! Written and directed by Red Dwarf co-creator Doug Naylor, the mini series contains a two-part episode entitled Back to Earth. This will be followed by behind the scenes show The Making Of Back to Earth and rounded off by Red Dwarf: Unplugged, which promises to [...]

Detailed Data Security Guidance Delayed

Further to my previous post on Data Handling Security, Ray Fleming (UK Education Industry Manager, Microsoft) has posted on his blog information pertaining to an additional, detailed guidance document from Becta. Ray reports that the document, which contains specific information on MIS data items and levels of security, was originally due for publication in December [...]

Passion is a Fantastic, Transferable Skill…

Dan Woodman, the Microsoft employee who famously had a tattoo of the company’s unofficial Blue Monster logo, has been laid off as part of the 1400 redundancies announced in January 2009. The Blue Monster was created by cartoonist and professional blogger Hugh MacLeod. In July 2008, Dan posted about his love for Microsoft on his [...]

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