Last night, 111 people (mostly kids, a couple of members of staff) took part in the 2008 'Thrill the World' record attempt for the largest number of simultaneous people dancing the 'Thriller' dance.

Overall, there were more then 3,700 people dancing around the world, in the USA, Canada, Germany, Ireland and many more.

If anyone is interested in seeing our school do the dance, take a look at the youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fczVxyzxGwc...

localzuk

I've been thinking lately about school phone usage and wondering why we aren't moving to VOIP in schools.

For example, at the moment, if we wish to call our LEA or a local school, we have to dial out via a PSTN line and pay a call charge. Whilst at the same time we have a perfectly usable high quality fibre-optic internet connection. Surely introducing a VOIP phone system across schools would be fairly simple - I could outfit all our local schools with suitable Asterisk based systems...

localzuk

So, now that it is out, should I go and buy myself an Xbox 360 and GTAIV?

Or should I be my normal self and wait until it undoubtedly appears on PC? What do people think?

localzuk

I've finally got my Tuxedo card topped up and have just went on a mini-shopping spree and bought myself a few 'new' games on the EA Games site.

How easy! All you do is choose what you want, enter your card details and voila, you can download the games! I like technology!!!

*Goes to play C&C TW: Kanes Wrath, Medal of Honour Airborne and SimCity Societies*

localzuk

All the recent chatter about the various space missions, ion thrusters, potential for giant balls of metal to crash into the planet etc... has made me think. Why do countries such as thr USA, UK, Japan etc... all run individual space programs, and only occasionally collaborating (such as the international space station).

It is plainly obvious that full collaboration creates amazing advances so why don't we do it more often? And why don't we do it with other industries?
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localzuk