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artpod

  1. @PivotalEllie that was a good article to read before getting to school. Food for thought :)
  2. @WalkingAwake that's a good quote.
  3. Writing school reports, not feeling bitter at all. Actually, also watching GP qualifying at Monte Carlo.
  4. really enjoyed first 2012 river swim yesterday goo.gl/s4n1D an amazing place and nice deep water
  5. Orange crescent moon, blue sky, a few stars, warm. Very beautiful outside. Bivvi this weekend a must.
  6. Thanks for the vest @CR_UK - I'm looking forward to wearing it on the 4th June for the Kent Roadrunner marathon twitter.com/artpod/status/…
  7. TEA text editor running on ubuntu, along with scribus, inkscape, gimp, filezilla. Loving open source software :)
  8. thinking of some ICT classes where children make text adventure games. A little challenge setting up but could be fun.
  9. googled SOLO taxonomy..interesting ( learningandteaching.info/learning/solo.… ). What's the Wild geese analogy - a few years since I read Foucault's Pendulum
  10. Impressed with son's bowling on the common earlier, length and line, getting a bit quicker too. Hope he gets a go in the school team.
  11. @cosmiclaire wow, what company! Thanks for the ff... and of course consider yourself reciprocated, #ff for Essex observer @cosmiclaire :)
  12. Confused. Resizing vector graphics / exported PNGs to be best viewed in print. Inkscape taking ages to export isn't helping.
  13. youtube's 500 internal error message...'A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation' :)
  14. Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived - The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla via @Oatmeal
  15. Running the kentroadrunner.com for Cancer research UK. Could you help me raise some sponsorship? justgiving.com/DSheppard :)
  16. Do the trion:z products 'work'? Quite pricey and wondered if there's a good reason to buy, beyond the hype.
  17. thanks @deKay01 I'll add that as an option, I'm also thinking about having a category on the blog for setting of chess challenges perhaps.
  18. school chess club in the doldrums, any teachers who run similar got any ideas? I enjoy it, can play okay but not well enough to 'coach'