Archive for 2005

Fierce blogging

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

Performance arts event sets up a public blog to get audience feedback.

Floppy discs in Open Access centres

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

Download a handout for students on organising folders in My Computer. Saves all that stress with failing floppies.

Bricolage

Sunday, May 22nd, 2005

“Alternatives to the ‘monolithic’ VLE, including public domain and open source VLEs, are emerging strongly. Some, such as ‘blogs’ and ‘wikis’, are completely different avenues to electronic publishing and collaboration and can be relatively inexpensive. Although UK universities seem to be surprisingly reluctant to spend less rather than more money on technology solutions, one can [...]

Special graph papers

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

Thanks to Jeremy for this Web site…

Print Free Graph Paper

Seems to have a good range of patterns including polar and log-lin. The metric rulings are on the right, and seem short of smaller divisions (i.e. 20mm/2mm isn’t there). The isometric papers could come in handy for 3-d drawing!

GIMP on Windows ME

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

Use an older version of the GTK+ libraries to run the Gimp 2 on an ancient laptop under Windows ME