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Hi Richard! How strange and w

2008-06-15T16:04:10.679+02:00

Hi Richard! How strange and wonderful that you remember Holiday House after all these years :-) I remember it being played on Radio Scotland, and of course imagined that this meant certain stardom for The Catburgers. I don't seem to have a copy of it. We recorded it in London in 1987 at a session that should have been paid for by Dan Treacy of the Television Personalities. As it turned out, Dan never showed up, but Jowe Head looked after us and helped out in the studio. By the time we finally got hold of the reel to reel from the session, it was in a hopeless mess (rescued off the floor of Dan's flat) so the best we might have is a good cassette. I'll ask around the other band members and see what we can come up with. I do have a rough demo done in 1986, but I'd like to explore all other options before unleashing it upon the world! I have about a dozen other Catburgers tracks, which I'll happily send you if you want.

Good point Tom. The Linux ver

2008-02-14T20:51:43.993+01:00

Good point Tom. The Linux version of Picasa that I installed on the Eee pc had a Wine directory if I remember correctly.

Congratulations on an excellen

2007-11-23T18:56:29.219+01:00

Congratulations on an excellent and much-needed plugin! I'm having trouble with delegated OpenID. I'm http://robertjones.myopenid.com and have delegated http://www.jonesieboy.co.uk/blog to refer to that openid When I try to post a comment using the original myopenid url, all is well, but when I use my blog url, my blog (and yours) chuck back a "need name and email" error, despite the fact that the openid checker reports that my blog is a functioning openid. Any ideas?

Cheers Ewan. I read somewhere

2007-02-23T14:37:49.723+01:00

Cheers Ewan. I read somewhere else on the Net that I need to switch to a more table-based skin, and start from there rather than monobook. I'm muttering to myself now - I'll go away and enjoy the weekend :)

Can't disagree with you... I s

2007-02-20T23:25:49.155+01:00

Can't disagree with you... I see Ubuntu and Suse pulling away from the pack though, which should be a good thing as far as simplifying things for the average punter is concerned. The sad thing is that people just don't realise that there is a free alternative to Windows AND all the software that you have to pay for on top of it - an alternative that will do everything that 90% of computer users want to do. It feels sometimes as thought Windows and proprietary software are a tax on those lacking the inquisitiveness and technical ability to discover and use Linux.

I totally agree about the shor

2007-02-20T19:41:27.849+01:00

I totally agree about the shortcomings of on-line polls. This one was set up by Dell though! One has to assume that they intended to do something with the results of this exercise - why bother otherwise? Which distro? Well that's a question! I think the suggestion on the site is for Ubuntu, OpenSuse and one other. Kubuntu is my distro of choice :)

Spooky! I can't say I've noti

2007-02-18T20:30:07.159+01:00

Spooky! I can't say I've noticed the smell, but I know what you mean about the noise :) I'm trying to work out when they were manufactured - did you get them new, or were they things that had always been there in your house?

Hi Jeremy. I haven't revisite

2007-02-16T20:36:58.780+01:00

Hi Jeremy. I haven't revisited Pipes since my first post, to be honest. But just now I had another play, and came up with this pipe. It runs a search on the contents of all the rss feeds coming out of all the blogs in scotedublogs.org.uk. Does that seem useful at all David? I'm not sure myself!

It was Gordon's tip that broug

2007-02-13T21:46:29.009+01:00

It was Gordon's tip that brought me to the Cafe Bleu Ewan :) Cairngorm was great today Tess. Ptarmigan Bowl, Ciste Fairway, Traverse and Upper Cas all in splendid nick. The Lecht was slushy glue yesterday.

LOL! Sorry about that Tess.

2007-02-10T21:51:25.398+01:00

LOL! Sorry about that Tess. By day I'm a mild mannered maths teacher, but by night I take on a dark and sinister alter ego - web application developer! FreeMIS is a free, open source management information system for schools that I've developed. I noticed from my blog stats that quite a few visitors were coming from the freemis Web site, so I thought I should let them know what was going on.

It's a pleasure :) If you wan

2007-02-09T22:04:10.509+01:00

It's a pleasure :) If you want a quick view of who is saying what across Scotland, check out the front page of Scotedublogs.org.uk - oh I just noticed that your blog is already stored in the system, so I guess you know about it already :)

Great idea David. I'll give i

2007-02-06T08:33:55.940+01:00

Great idea David. I'll give it a go tonight on my creative mp3/video player.

Another great idea of mine tha

2007-02-05T22:18:50.320+01:00

Another great idea of mine than someone else had already ;) The wiki looks really useful. I wonder what the smartest way would be to tie them into UK/Scottish standards? It feels like there ought to be a web2balicious tagging way of doing it.

Hi Dan. Now I get to it, I se

2007-02-05T20:48:12.132+01:00

Hi Dan. Now I get to it, I see that you are already planning to do what I was going to suggest - getting them to plan a lesson. Is the audience too disparate to create groups of teachers from the same subjects? It would be great if they could bring along a real topic they are about to teach and then work on how the whiteboards could enhance the teaching and learning for that topic. The key, if we agree with what the DFES study says, is to keep the focus on learning and teaching methodology rather than on technology. Low level use of whiteboards might sound like "how could we use that drag and drop thing here" whereas high level use would sound more like "we should incorporate an opportunity for peer assessment here - could the whiteboard help with that?"

Thanks Don. There was indeed

2007-01-31T21:13:02.759+01:00

Thanks Don. There was indeed a huge amount of counting going on!

Cheers John. Hard to comment

2007-01-30T22:19:50.308+01:00

Cheers John. Hard to comment on the madness vote - I think in hindsight that it was a great idea, but that maybe just proves that I'm bonkers :)

Cheers Ollie. You weren't on

2007-01-09T22:09:44.485+01:00

Cheers Ollie. You weren't on there!?! That's a disgrace which I have fixed :) It'll be half an hour or so before the system gets around to updating from your rss feed. Any feedback you can give as a user of the system will be very helpful. Also we need to publicise this as widely as possible once it has the remaining bits of functionality in place, so if you could help with that when the time came it would be great :)

Hi Emina. You blog is actuall

2007-01-07T16:41:07.798+01:00

Hi Emina. You blog is actually very interesting - I've added it to my feed reader :)

Excellent! I've asked one of

2006-12-18T22:59:45.981+01:00

Excellent! I've asked one of my classes to come up with a Scottish reply. Hopefully we'll have something to post before we break for the holidays.

Thanks Tess - i agree complete

2006-12-15T19:40:22.145+01:00

Thanks Tess - i agree completely that a pile of links to long posts is not helpful. I really think, though, that the articles I pointed to earlier do a great job of explaining feeds. Nonetheless, I'll try to write something this weekend. Are you sure you don't want to do it yourself though? It sounds as though you have lots of good ideas about how it should look :)

Well ooookay. If you all insi

2006-12-15T15:39:34.944+01:00

Well ooookay. If you all insist! I must disagree with you though, Tess, when you say that links mean nothing to readers. How could anyone have made it to my blog without understanding how to click on a link? I'm not quite sure what you are all looking for. If you want to know how to use feeds, I feel like I said it all in the previous post - blogs produce lists of recent posts (and comments) in a format that can be interpreted by software. These lists are called feeds. You can subscribe to these lists with software called feed readers, or aggregators, so that you see any new posts from one page instead of having to trawl around all the blogs you like. That's it basically :) I'm not trying to avoid writing the post - I would just like a bit of advice before I start. If you want to know the technical details of feeds - RSS, ATOM etc and how they actually work - we'd need to start with HTML, then XML, then talk about Web servers, then get a basic understanding of how a Web application works. Then we would maybe be ready to look in detail at how an RSS feed gets produced by a blog and interpreted by a feed reader. I can certainly explain all this stuff, but I'm not sure you average blogger, let alone "beginning blogger", would be interested!

Cheers Tess. Looks like snowb

2006-12-14T08:41:16.734+01:00

Cheers Tess. Looks like snowboarding is still ahead, BTW ;) I'm glad you have found this useful Jim. I'm hosting this myself, and am using Wordpress with a modified version of the 3K2 theme. Security concerns prevent me going into any more details about the hosting in public, but if you email me - jonesieboy at gm@1l.c0m - I'll tell all!

Glad you found this useful GM!

2006-12-11T19:16:53.757+01:00

Glad you found this useful GM! I'll be talking about CoComments in my next post - it helps you to keep track of all the comments you post on other blogs.

Cheers Ollie. Great idea. I'

2006-12-10T16:29:09.510+01:00

Cheers Ollie. Great idea. I'll keep going with this nascent series of posts, and we can talk to David and Ewan about putting something together on Exc-el.