archive for April 2007

Stop Teaching Microsoft Word in Schools

Every year schools and colleges spend an exorbitant amount on license fees to foreign multinational companies such as Microsoft (one school quoted £60 000/year) for products such as Microsoft Word and Excel, despite the fact that open source software such as OpenOffice and Abiword exists which can be freely and legally downloaded by anyone.

Posted 29th April 2007 in E-petitions, with 2 comments

Scrap Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE) in secondary schools

I have recently been quite active in http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/, the Online Petitions Site from 10 Downing Street. This is the first of many blog posts that explains my views on certain aspects of our country and why I have petitioned for or against certain things.

Posted 28th April 2007 in E-petitions, with 0 comments

Apt-get kills KDE

Quite a few times recently, Donov has managed to render thinky, an old IBM thinkpad, unable to login. At the KDM login screen, you type a username and password, and you get back to the login screen.

Posted 28th April 2007 in Uncategorized, with 2 comments

Nokia 3330

<img src="http://www.worldcenter.it/imgprd/nokia_3330.jpg" alt="Nokia 3330" />

Posted 26th April 2007 in Life, with 0 comments

Holiday Booked

Hi all.

Posted 26th April 2007 in Holiday 2007 - Tallinn, with 0 comments

Side-stepping SingTel’s Bandwidth Caps

Are you a customer of SingTel?

Posted 14th April 2007 in Computer, with 0 comments