Dec
06

A demonstration that sometimes things are not what they seem…

….Take a look at this picture of Wallace and Grommit for example.  Just a nice, straight forward picture of the lovable duo. Or is it?  Because, if you know what Steganography is, you may then suspect that there is more to this picture than meets the eye! If I told you there is another image …

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Sep
24

Great Teachers’ BLOGs

OK, so I am going to try and post up any useful or interesting resources I find on the net which are concerned with teaching, or pedagogy if you’re posh. These could be blogs which I have found (and I have found a few good ones) or useful software, or great teaching sites – there …

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Sep
23

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Gary Oldman? Nah, mate – Alec Guinness!

So, as I often do when a remake comes out (that is, one that looks vaguely interesting and perhaps worth watching and not Arthur) I decided to watch the old 1979 mini-series of John LeCarré’s spy book, ‘Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy’.  Starring Alec Guinness as George Smiley (I love Alec Guinness), and Bernard Hepton as …

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Sep
21

Great albums you may have never heard #6 – The Wicker Man OST

I guess that most people who come to read this post have seen the classic 1973 horror movie The Wicker Man.  It is a film which is in my top 10 favourite films of all time, and I don’t expect it to be going anywhere soon.  Written by Anthony Shaffer and directed by Robin Hardy, …

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Sep
20

Googledocs Rocks!

So there are many, many different online collaboration apps out there these days.  For presentations, Microsoft’s Powerpoint is available as an online version, or for something a bit different there’s Prezi, which builds a presentation which is designed a little like a mind map.  This post though is about Googles offering, simply called presentation and part of …

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