Posted on August 2nd, 2007 by russell.dyas
As Kermit the frog once said “It’s not easy being green”. There has been a lot of news recently about ICT companies going green, and with the introduction of WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive), green computers and green initiatives by Google (http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/125302.html), it looks like it will not ease off. But can a [...]
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Posted on January 14th, 2007 by russell.dyas
EduGeek.net @ BETT & Changes
It seems like the EduGeek.net Technical Help stand at BETT 2007 has been a great success. I am sure all of the admins will have a proper de-brief at sometime in the future and plan for next year
Not managed to get down to the show [...]
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Posted on May 30th, 2006 by russell.dyas
This month I will be mostly travelling…
This month seems like I am spending lot time travelling (now my better half might say that is a good thing) while I don’t mind travelling worst it being cut of with no internet access on trains why cant train operators roll out more wi-fi on their trains.
I’m currently [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2006 by russell.dyas
Well made plunge and moved this blog over to wordpress as the backend instead of B2Evolution consent spam driving me nuts. But advantage with word press comes with some very good anti spam plugins so hopefully wont see as much.
Move took bit of coding but got it to work thanks to lot of help from [...]
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Posted on May 3rd, 2006 by russell.dyas
On the We Media feed a blogger summed it up well and my feelings of how blog and old media.
The blogger said that he watches news thats one source, he reads blogs thats another source and talks to his friends and family his new source.
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Posted on May 3rd, 2006 by russell.dyas
Just read this on BBC We Media blog…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wemedia/2006/05/top_to_bottom.html
[quote]
The day has broken up for lunch and between the canapes and desserts, people are digesting the morning’s discussions.
The feeling seems to be that we have heard a lot from big media. It has been a morning of chiefs talking about the future of the media, the need [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2006 by russell.dyas
You know when you set out to do a job and what you end up doing is completely different to what you planned.
The other day after my top 30 podcast post I decided to look through my Ipodderx.com list an delete some of them that I did not listen to as much.
Anyway guess how many [...]
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Posted on February 6th, 2006 by russell.dyas
This article on SANS made me laugh…
Bush visit nationals security agency to see latest technology that is fighting computer crime
Here is photo from news article from Washington post…
Now look at this site http://securitywizardry.com/radar.htm
That’s right they use Talisker Security Wizardry Portal a service that is maintained by volunteers…
SANS Article
Washington Post Article
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Posted on February 5th, 2006 by russell.dyas
Well I have been told off by Mark http://www.simps.co.uk for not updating my blog….
So I am sorry with work and one thing another not been online as much…
Well this caught my eye last week 50+ ways of using rss for educators…
http://www.teachinghacks.com/2006/01/15/50-rss-ideas-for-educators/
Anyway will get round to altering layout like i said while back honest…
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Posted on January 24th, 2006 by russell.dyas
Well managed to work out how to record skype calls using mac…
To do it must use soundflower and linein to redirect sound then use audacity to record calls…
Now with linein can set it so that it uses one channel i.e left hand channel now I just need to work out how to set skype to [...]
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