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Preserving the Past

A while back I wrote a post about an old school website that I had built many, many years ago that was still available online. Since writing that post the site has - as I feared - finally disappeared from the Internet. I had a feeling it would, and I was looking at ways to preserve the work within it.

10 years with Typepad

Well, who would have thought I’d still be writing a post here after all this time. Yes, ten years. Ten years of putting thought to keyboard and recording all sorts of crazy things over the past 3,654 days.

This was the first post I wrote on here…

Chocolate Frogs, Alleyways and Castles

Yesterday I took my daughter and a friend of hers to the Harry Potter Studio Tour experience for a birthday treat. We travelled into - and then back out of - London before reaching the complex at Leavesden. We travelled by East Midlands Trains and a double decker bus and not, unfortunately, via the Hogwarts Express and the Knight Bus.

It's the weekend

It's Friday afternoon, and the August Bank holiday weekend beckons. So, let's just have a look at the checklist for this weekend then.

Time for the Happy Dance...

...following an email that arrived tonight;

There's only one thing that I've ordered from RS Components...

...that'll be the Raspberry Pi then. Whoooop!! :o)

A blast from the past

I was having a clear out of my study, and whilst looking through my "man tin" of bits and bobs I came across a blast from the past. A little longer than an iPhone, but narrower and thinner, it was an essential item back in the days.

When the wind changed

The title of this post is based around a quote from the Disney Mary Poppins film. You may remember that before Mary arrives at the Banks' house to take over nannying duties and sort things out, the wind changes direction first.

Visitors, Discussions, Questions and Answers!

Last week at school we were honoured to welcome both Dughall McCormick (@dughall) and Jenn Lucraft (@jenn_lucraft) into our building as they came to see our ICT provision.

New year. New start. New attitude.

2011 - A year of unbelievable ideas, suggestions and flawed thinking from the Department of Education, and in particular from Michael Gove and his Chamber of Ofsted.

The Call

We knew it was coming. We just didn't know when. I suppose we were lucky that it has been deferred for a year - they wrote to us and said our results meant they wouldn't be coming until at least September 1st 2011. Well, it's September 12th and today we got....<shudder> that phone call.