I’ll be the first to admit it: Summer Holiday Tasks should finish at the end of the Summer holidays. But don’t worry, since it’s turning to Winter here, soon the Southern Hemisphere will be in Summertime. Therefore, I don’t see it as overrunning at all. In fact, I completed it before Summer even started. How’s […]
Month: October 2016
Illuminating Illuminations
I haven’t been to any illuminations for a number of years. Therefore it was a change to go on a weekend trip to see some. The ones that we went to see had a twist on the usual lights hanging from lamp posts or on fancy displays – they were on boats.
This Was A Triumph
Hello and welcome to the Aperture Science computer-aided Enrichment Center. Before we start, however, keep in mind that although fun and learning are the primary goals of all Enrichment Center activities, serious injuries may occur. For your own safety and the safety of others, please refrain from– dHJ5aW5nIHRvIGRlY29kZSB0aGlzIHRleHQu The Enrichment Center is pleased that you […]
User Acceptance Testing: The School Website – Retaliation
To be honest, I just wanted to write a title that sounded like a movie sequel. It’s not that much more exciting since the previous instalments about the new school website. However, since I highlighted all of my changes in yellow, the developer looking after our site made their changes in green with the text […]
OnePlus 2: One Year On
It’s been exactly one year since I received my OnePlus 2 (well, 366 days as it’s been a leap year). You don’t normally see reviews of phones a year after they’ve been made, so I thought I’d write a few things about it and how I’ve found using it. But first… Background Information I don’t […]
Remember: Security Groups Aren’t Dynamic
Today I finished setting up a folder on a share and restricted it to only allow certain people access. There’s nothing unusual about this; you’ve probably done it yourself. I’ve done it myself a large number of times too. What is unusual is that it took me two days to figure out why it wasn’t […]
I Had My Cake and (Then) Ate It
(I tried to do both, I really did, but I couldn’t). By the looks of it I think I may have baking fever. I just can’t get enough of cooking since I’ve learnt about the joys of it! (Actually, the truth is that since the last cooking escapade we still had a large amount of […]
Making Humble Pie
Except we used apples. And it was a tart. But we did make it. I starting to think now I should probably change the title to be something more accurate? I’m not getting off to a good start here, am I? Let’s try again… “You’re going to make a tart” is how I was greeted […]
CyberCenturion III – Practice Round 1
The practice rounds were sent out this week, which are the final set of images you get to play with before the actual competition rounds start. The main difference between these and the introductory round images is that there’s no answer key in them, which makes them seem closer to the actual ones that you […]
User Acceptance Testing: The School Website – Part 2
It’s been a few days since I sent off a list of things for the school website developers to go and fix. I didn’t expect to hear off them so soon considering the list was fairly long. However, I received this email in my inbox this morning:
The New Photocopier(s)
Since the staff had a new room, it was decided that a new photocopier would be put in there too. Well, I say decided, more forced… the old one was too wide to fit through the door. I will give credit to the previous main photocopier, it did 4 and a half million pages without […]
CyberCenturion III – Introductory Round 1 – Ubuntu
Following on from the initial images for the 2016 – 2017 CyberCenturion competition, the Ubuntu images were available earlier this week for everyone to have a go with. While I can complete the Windows images and fix them pretty quickly, I’m not so good on the Ubuntu ones – some of the students are though. […]