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Living the dream…
I remember being at primary school some years ago when our head teacher at the time, Mr Francis, announced he was moving on to a place called Pastures New. “What an odd sounding place,” I thought “I wonder where that is?”.
Very soon I’m about to find out, for I too will be going there. I [...]
DIY is the road to thrift…
As I’ve written before, I’ve had experience of working in two very different schools. One a staunch supporter of RM and its Community Connect management tool, the other a distinctly ambivalent RM customer preferring the more vanilla approach to network management (the only RM product was SmartCache 2).
In the time that I’ve been away from [...]
My HTC Desire & Me (or I…?)
Rather unlike our summer I’m going through a bit of a creative dry spell. In an attempt to kick-start the old creative juices I thought I would write a brief review of my thoughts after a month with my HTC Desire.
I have the ‘exclusive’ black version only available in the UK with Orange; however, the [...]
Twitter Etymology
You’d have to be living inside a dark shoebox at the end of the bed of a hermit who lives in a cave under the sea on a planet a million light years away not to have heard of Twitter at least in name over the past few months. With any service like this a [...]
IT – Where do we go from here?
So, the much loathed emergency budget has arrived and as predicted education could suffer cuts of up to 25%; I predict that, with swingeing cuts to be made – and IT (read: network, rather than curricular) not being seen as a frontline department, the IT budget within schools will be far too tempting for [...]
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