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What a difference a few years makes

A few years ago I went into PCWorld with my wife looking for a laptop for her. She had her heart set on a mac, (because they looked so beautiful), and nothing was going to change it!

You're off for just one day and...

Well, I'm pleased to say that I am surplus to requirements at school now. It's pretty obvious if the last two days are anything to go by.

The iPad emerges

So, Apple have finally taken the wraps off their long awaited tablet PC and called it the iPad. It's around 4 times the size of an iPhone, but looks in essence exactly the same as it. Just bigger!

Decisions, decisions...

As I've previously said we've launched an iPhone App for the school website. Brilliant idea - but it seems to have a few bugs at the moment. Several people are reporting that it loads, then quits before it can be used. I've found the same issue too.

App 'y Daze

Woah! What a crazy 24 hours this past day has been. And all because Apple have approved and published an app I had been quietly working on for the school.

Domain Mapping Time

Oh the joy! It's the fun of Domain Mapping once again. Why is this such a time consuming process? And why when I domain map to a blog does the formatting of the site always go wibbly wobbly for the first few hours of the changeover? Let's see how it goes today...

Update: It's all done, without any hassle. It was a smooth transition (helped immensely by the fact that 1and1.co.uk now give access to change CNAME details). So, all done, website domain mapped and up and running. 

Lovely Jubbly!

BETT2010, my thoughts

I was going to write a long (and more than likely waffling) post about BETT when I returned from London last night, but in the end I felt too tired to do much of anything really. In the meantime others have blogged their thoughts, but I've finally got around to writing my personal thoughts, and I've listed several other blogs that have already put their feelings about BETT online at the end of this.

You can't stop them learning

So, I struggled into work this morning (the "school closed" text message arrived whilst I was driving, and I was concentrating on not sliding off the icetrack - sorry road - I was travelling on) to discover just the DHT and caretaker there.

Social Messaging Muppet

Social networks are great - they can keep family members miles (even continents) in touch, they can be used as a great Personal Learning Network, or even as a way to continue teaching when a school is closed due to bad weather.

Morphic Thinking

It's a strange world, when you can come up with an idea for your annual visit to the BETT exhibition, only to discover that another educator has had exactly the same thought, at what would seem like the same time!