Archive for December, 2005

Ubuntu 5.10

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

The CDs dropped through the letterbox the day before the last day of 2005

Picture message

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

This ended up in the inbox

Dusk

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Wet dusk does streetlights, digital camera

Christmas eve

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Chilling out

Standard deviation recipe

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Draft of SD notes for study pack

Chi-square statistic and test

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

Draft notes on how to calculate the well-known statistic

Cool or crap?

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Zeldman’s article from 5 years ago asking for usability in web design is updated and given a new home – some change for better

Writing about charts

Friday, December 16th, 2005

Excel on projector helps provide rapidly updated charts to trigger discussion

Wikis in school

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005

MeatBall wiki page about educational uses of wikis and other links

100 words

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Read all about it coursework: a useful list

MP3 interview – Simon Wheatley

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

Podcast interviews – DIY Studs Terkel?

Planet transit times 2006

Sunday, December 11th, 2005

The transit time of a planet can help you find the planet in the sky and can help plan observing trips

hohoho

Saturday, December 10th, 2005

Stan’s Cafe and others start the hohoho web site dedicated to unusual christmas lights

Out of focus

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Mistake leads to interesting image

Casio calculator

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

fx-83ES defaults to maths mode with surds and fractions

Celestia

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

Expecting nice pictures from freeware astronomy package

Pie charts

Sunday, December 4th, 2005

MS Excel or any spreadsheet on a projector with whole class questions

Dr Gonzo’s theme

Saturday, December 3rd, 2005

Wordpress theme uses tables layout with light styling and one main file