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Caffeine gives me a migraine.

These logos might not be used by others, but they should give an indication of the designer's capabilities.

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We don't have a microwave on account of the fact that the government can control your thoughts through the microwave emanations.

Unfortunately, my wife doesn't like it when I use the kettle to heat milk. Ay up.

Bit of a long shot, but I'm looking to buy a hot chocolate maker as a Christmas present for my wife, and wondered if anyone on here had any recommendations?

A couple more odd spellings here, Featherstonehough, pronounced Fanshaw, and Cholomondley, pronounced Chumley. Don't you simply love English names?

Resolved: Once the classroom temperature had risen above freezing the printer began functioning again.

One of our departments bought a full set of genuine toners for this printer last week, or two working days ago, and already we have an error message asking us to replace the yellow toner. Knowing the teachers who use this particular room I don't believe that all the yellow toner has been used in such a short period, and that the message is wrong. I can't seem to find anything through the printer properties control panel, and I can't scroll through the actual printer menu, as it won't allow this until I replace the toner cartridge. Anyone come across this problem before?

here's on from the BBC then...BBC - Peston's Picks: Why the Treasury won't illuminate 2010 bank pay

Can you provide the stats for that, please?

Corporation tax rates in the UK are still relatively low compared to other EU member states as a whole. One of the companies in question is Vodaphone, and is estimated to owe £6billions (that's not a spelling mistake) in tax, a figure that HMRC doesn't dispute. It's fine you saying don't buy their products, but they can't put themselves above the law, or for that matter, the ordinary tax-paying member of the public who generally pay their taxes.

Not having a go at you teejay, but if some companies paid the taxes they owed instead of salting the money away offshore, we wouldn't be in quite the mess we are. Private Eye | Official Site

Our LEA group of secondary schools will be moving to a Sharepoint based learning platform over the coming 18-24 months and all 'branding', as MS refer to it, will have to be done in house, unless we want to retain the default design developed by our managed service provider. This is something completely new to me. I've had a look on the MS site, and at Sharepoint Designer, but until I get a virtual sharepoint site up and running I won't be able to have a play. Does anyone know of any useful sites out there which could get me started in on redesigning the look of our site?

Edugeek is going behind a paywall like the Times?

I'm afraid that Sky+ HD is out of the question at the moment with two daughters at university, unless I could get the box free without having to take up the HD subscription. I'll borrow one of the RCA connectors from work and see how it works.

I've just attended a full day's training for our new LA learning platform, OpenHive, and as we were going through the basics early on we were shown the forums where staff, technicians and the provider could exchange ideas. The trainer from the company, i2q, said they wanted to make this forum as much like Edugeek as possible, with a light touch regulation. There was no question from the assembly of techies, teachers and SLT asking what Edugeek is. I think that's pretty cool.

I'm looking to upgrade my front room tv from the crt model it currently is to an LED. My current setup requires that I have two SCART sockets in the back of the tv, one from the (old) Sky+ box, and one to a DVD recorder/5.1 receiver and I can't afford to upgrade the entire package. The LED tvs I've seen only have one SCART socket, but plenty of HDMI sockets. I know that I can buy SCART to HDMI cables, but will that effect the quality of the signal?

Top row, second from the left - Track Technology Systems Interactive Whiteboard Mounts - Product Photos This is the Promethean flame logo which should be illuminated if the board is powered up. Holding the tip of the pen near this logo (when it's on) should start the calibration process. Right-clicking on the ActivBoard icon in the system tray should also give you that option. I've sometimes found that if I go into My Computer, right-click and select Manage, then click on Device Manager (in XP Pro at least) and look for Human Interactive Devices (HID) in the list then selected the Update Driver option from the right-click context menu and followed the instructions to update the driver(s) that this has sorted the problem for me.

This may be a little off the wall for what you're asking, but I found this talk by Sugata Mitra - Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education | Video on TED.com gave plenty of food for thought. I appreciate that the link to this has been posted on Edugeek before.

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I was born in 1953, and I'm also 57.

don't have an iPhone myself, but it may prove helpful to others iPhone 4 lock screen bypass discovered | Technology | guardian.co.uk

If I heard Mr. Cable correctly, he stated that it didn't matter how much you'd paid in NI contributions, everyone would get the flat rate £140; and in a reverse of the decision to means test Child Benefit, this proposed new pension wouldn't be means tested in order to save administrative costs.

One of the ways I got the English faculty interested in producing work for the VLE was in the run up to study leave and the exam period. Revision plans, possible questions and other reminders could be accessed 24/7 (and often are). It allows for two way communication between staff in school and pupils at home. Various problems could be ironed out, nerves calmed etc. The ability to see individual data on these pupils could then be correlated against expected results and those actually gained. One result you would expect is that those pupils who were most conscientious would get better results, and visited the online material most often. However, it appeared that the majority of pupils spent time online revising (they could of course have simply logged on and realized Coronation Street/East Enders were on and left the machine to watch them). Results have improved over the past two years this scheme has been run, and indeed exam results for the whole school are the best ever. In English it would be fair to say that those who were expected to do well did so, but there was an improvement in those who were marked down as getting a borderline D for example and gained the extra marks to climb up a level to C. I’m sure that our school is not alone in spending time concentrating on these “borderline” pupils, pushing them to achieve a higher mark and make the higher grade. What can’t be disentangled is if teachers pushing these pupils in conjunction with the online help led to these results, or if teaching alone was responsible for it all. The statistics show that the online revision material was used heavily in the run up to the GCSE exams; I’m responsible for the VLE, I don’t teach, but I believe that use of the VLE played some part in these raised results. It’s one of those things which can’t be proved or disproved without study over a longer period. It could also be that the quality of the last two years’ Year 10/11 cohorts was higher than in previous years. It’s very difficult to measure value for money in education when developing a young person’s self-esteem and life view.