Archive for the ‘Computers & Internet’ Category

We have 2 computers, used mostly by my progeny and me. Progeny (aka multitasking millennial) called me to say that her computer was slow and she couldn’t do anything on it. Fine, I said, I’ll look at it when I get home. The PC was clearly sick, with a process (sass.exe) hogging the CPU and […]

My first foray into commercially hosted websites was when I started to move my Interactive Mathematics site off our institution's server about 18 months ago. I took the recommendation of a colleague and bought space on GlobeDomain.com's servers. At first, things went well. The support (by a couple of Indian guys) was excellent and they […]

After all the hassle and wasted time of viruses on 2 computers, I sat down to catch up on a mountain of jobs. I turned on the computer and "pphht" - accompanied by a burning smell. Uh oh - not good. After some elimination, I realised it was the Maxtor HDD. It was still under […]

"Weaving the Web into Teaching and Learning" Cunningham, C and Billingsly, M © 2006 Pearson Summary Review I'm not going to write much about this book because basically, I was not impressed. The problems: The book is disorganised - it is neither a coherent treatise on Web design nor on teaching and learning. It mixes […]

I went to an interesting series of talks on art and technology at the Singapore Science Centre yesterday. The opening talk was by the highly-cerebral Tosa Naoko (土佐 尚子). She showed a movie about the ZENetic Computer which she co-developed. ZENetic Computer attempts to teach the user about Zen Buddhism, Japanese culture, ink paintings and […]

An article in the Dutch site, FontysOnline (the article has disappeared, unfortunately), bemoans the plans of the Dutch government to reduce the number of math hours in schools by 30%. The aim, as far as I can work out, is to allow students to choose either a social science subject ("nature, life and technique") or […]

A high school senior started SurfYourWork.com as a school project and sold it for $1.25 million a few years later. From Missouri Conservative [no longer available]: Adil Lalani was still in high school when he conceived the idea for SurfYourWork.com, a free, web-based school management system that lets teachers and administrators post assignments and other […]

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How come when you pay a bill via Internet banking, the message is: Please note that the organisation may take 2 to 3 working days for the payment processing. Oh yeah, that's right - the bank can make $$ on your money while they are waiting for it to "clear". Another banking scam... See the […]

Further to my JIT Learning post about forums on the Web... I came across "Lissa Explains" - started by an 11 year-old who hid her Website from her friends because she didn't want to be seen as a geek. Now, at 17, she gets 'several million' page views a month - must be getting pretty […]