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When Peter Crouch was recently asked 'What would you be if you weren't an England football player?' he replied 'A virgin..' Changed my perception of the lanky one..

God this is going to sound soooo Stalinist (those who know me will testify it's out of character)(at least i hope they will...) but the library version can't be used in schools only in the library or at home. The school edition which Ireland have subscribed to is very different to the library edition, lesson plans, interactive curriculum games, study guides, curriculum mapping, etc. etc. Adam

Hi Chris, the awards night is still the Wednesday (13th) as far as i know - just had a shufty at the website and it's saying the 13th.

Looking for some advice in getting up to speed with the breed of linux (debian i believe) that comes installed on the eepc (900 series). Can anybody recommend a decent book that covers the basics such as file system, installing apps etc - have a reasonable technical ability (ex MCSE, CNA) but treated Linux a little like swine flu in the past. Cheers Adam

The original Stig was Perry McCathy but he blew it when he revealed it was him in his biography. Shumi was used just for this one as he was the guest and as others have pointed out Ferrari are quite protective of the FXX's. It was fairly obvious when it went 7 seconds quicker than the Gumpert that somebody 'special' rather than the normal Stig was driving. The normal Stig has been one person since McCathy and is a fairly well known 'antipodean' GT driver...

It was run as part of an hour in school session, mostly for primaries i'll see what i can pull together. Give me a week or so!

Unfortunately this is a recurring issue as most publishers will operate using DRM to track usage and so even removing the image instantly will not generally change the situation legally. The advice that Russ gives is spot on but having been drawn into a discussion with a group of secondary schools and their LA ultimately there is not a lot that can be done as ignorance is no defence. The LA group in question had two secondary schools pulled up, both challanged it and were presented with details of where the image was lifted from, when it was done and how long it had been present on the school web site without permission... So it makes sense to challange it to make sure it is genuine if nothing else. To back up what localzuk rightly states - the rule of thumb is if you can't see any copyright information then assume it is copyrighted and only use resources that you can produce a license for. We ran some twilight sessions last year on copyright as part of our e-safety campaign, if this is something people want then let me know and we'll fire them up again.

Experience from another school where bizzarely they created the entry in wikipedia about the school but it constantly got vandalised by pupils and ex-pupils (although i don't think they experienced an axe-wielding librarian), subsequently the network manager was tasked with constantly monitoring it and ammending where necessary (appropriate use of time..?Mmm..). The school had editorial rights removed on the article by wikipedia due to 'consistant editorial abuse' even though they were the originator, so be careful if you don't get into this crazy situation.

Apart from sounding like an impossible dream, has anybody come across these guys? Memory4Teachers Would like to hear from you if you have (or equally if you haven't..). Cheers

Not sure if you are looking at hardware or software but this is v cool.. Prezi - The zooming presentation editor

HTC Diamond pro which is currently winging its way to the 'great' carphone warehouse in the sky. Vodafone don't have any in stock locally to replace it with so looks like i'm getting a HP ipaq Data Messenger (!!?)

The most amount of members logged on whilst simultaneously eating a banana?

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Hi Dos_Box, Do you know who we would approach about exhibiting (if it's not too late..)? We have (finally ) managed to start development on a Moodle federated search mechanism and single sign-on for Britannica and really could do with a platform for 'proper' users to look at and comment on it, either filling us with happiness or dispair at our efforts.. Hope you can help, or at least point me in the right direction.. Adam

It's a HTC touch pro.. Great phone apart from the battery life and occasionally not wanting to ring (which is a blessing sometimes)

Can anybody recommend a good book! Nothing by Bill Gates please..

Bl**dy Windows Mobile phones that our 'IT' manager insists we have as Blackberries are just 'fashion objects' What's the point of having a phone that's battery doesn't last a whole day and then either refuses to ring or crashes when somebody calls you??! Arggghhhh... Now where's my 6310..

If you are using firefox then look for Hypewords in the plug-ins. Their translation tool translates in situ as well as some other very cool customisable things such as highlighing a word on a web page and it then performs a search across content repositories such as Britannica, Wikipedia or straight Google ones. The Hyperwords Company Best thing is it's free and i believe they are to release a version that works on any browser or text based docunment (Word etc.) Hope that helps, drop me a line if you want more info.

Downloaded the demo of PSN, only thing to say is that Father Christmas better deliver..

Thanks SYSMAN_MK - I did read through the HT survey and thought from personal experience that they might be a little off... which seems to be the case with the small amount of feedback already.

Just a quick, non scientific one but what are peoples feelings as to what computer to pupil ratio's are like? We all know what the government say but what is it like in the real world?

22nd Dec - first day after schools break up..

This made me chuckle, wonder if we will have parents complaining that their children are getting home late... Employees sue for unpaid Windows Vista overtime ? The Register

The reason Queenie was on the Google logo.. Google searches high and low for answer to Prince Philip's query during royal visit - Times Online Well worth the read as Google ended up with a little egg on their faces, from the Duke of Edinburgh of all people..

Have a looksie here: accueil: Universalis Junior If it looks of interest to the MFL dept let me know and i'll arrange trial logins for a month or so. No idea of price unfortunately as our French cousins have only just chose to inform us of its existence, one company and all that.. Adam