Microsoft Fun, Free Friday!
0530hrs and my alarm goes off with an unwelcome screech – it’s time to get up ready for Microsoft’s Fun, Free Friday event held on it’s campus at Thames Valley Park, Reading.
The event was designed to demonstrate some of the technologies Microsoft brings to the education sector including everything from Live@edu through to XNA [...]
Excuse me, I’m British!
The British are good at, and famous for, a great many things. Over the centuries we’ve established ourselves as world leaders in politics, education, tea-drinking, football hooliganism, and Euro-scepticism; however, the one thing we are the very best at – untouchable by any other nation on the planet – is queuing.
Yes, that most frustrating, [...]
My thoughts on Foursquare so far
I signed up to Foursquare some time ago, but it was only after reading a fantastic blog post by Katharine Robinson (@thesourceress) that I decided to give it another look, and actually have a proper go at using it.
Katharine touched upon the user interface in her post, and this is something that I want [...]
My problem with exams…
I am, amongst other things, a second year IT student at the University of Reading in the UK. This time of year for me, and thousands of other students, is a nightmare as we prepare for the onslaught of exams. Exams are something that have been deemed necessary by the ‘system’ at practically every level [...]
Get Latest Tweet PHP Code
Just under the title heading of this blog is a line displaying my latest tweet, however it doesn’t quite do what I want. I got the code (displayed below) from Joost de Valk’s blog; it will convert mentions into links, but not hashtags and URL links – something I would really like it to [...]
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