Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Simon Robinson
How I Use RSS To Make My Life Easier | The Edublogger
I’m really into RSS — a RSS power user may be an appropriate title since I grab every RSS opportunity to make my life easier and maximise my ability to interact effectively with others.
This is where it’s at. In fact I would go further [...]
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Posted on August 17th, 2008 by Simon Robinson
If anyone is reading this please leave a comment and tell me you’re not one of these people. Please.
it takes little work to get people to divulge their passwords over the phone. One survey, by security consultants PentaSafe, found that two-thirds of commuters at Victoria Station in London would give their password to a pollster [...]
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Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Simon Robinson
A Texas school district will let teachers bring guns to class this fall, the district’s superintendent said on Friday, in what experts said appeared to be a first in the United States.
[From Texas school OKs gun-toting teachers - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)]
Has anyone ever heard of anything more preposterous? If you browse the article [...]
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Posted on August 10th, 2008 by Simon Robinson
Cam Twist Step 1
Originally uploaded by coach_robbo
We video chat a fair bit in our household. Both sets of my son’s Grandparents live interstate but through Skype we can have “virtual visits” at least once a week. Super nice. As the “Little Ticket” (as he is known) has become more mobile however the issue of keeping [...]
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Posted on August 10th, 2008 by Simon Robinson
coachrobbo’s Network on Delicious
Originally uploaded by coach_robbo
The new and improved version of Delicious, one of the oldest (and my fave) social bookmarking services, is out. It has been well talked about all over the web so it’s not necessary for me to go into mind numbing detail (do a search on “delicious 2.0″) but I [...]
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