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Scratch-ing an itch

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Sorry for the awful pun. It had to be done.

For those who don’t know, Scratch is a programming language geared primarily at younger children. We use it with our S2 classes (around 12-13 years old) although I am aware of many primary schools who also introduce it to children [...]

Pipes test

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I’ve just made an attempt to use Yahoo Pipes to merge my feeds and publish them to facebook. This post is a test to see if this import works, and if so then I should have a new Note sometime in the next couple of hours.

I didn’t have much [...]

And a new Chrome extension

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After yesterday’s post I’ve gone and found another one. I’ll add these details to that post for completeness, but:

Super Google Reader

This plug-in adds an extra drop-down menu to Google Reader which does a few things, but chief amongst these is to automatically download the entire post for blogs [...]

What browser plugins/extensions do you use?

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I’ve not done a geeky post in a while so I thought I’d rattle one off while I have a little spare time.

My current browser of choice is Google Chrome, although I confess it’s not 100% compatible with every site at present. Zemanta‘s WordPress plug-in, for starters, [...]

BT Home Hub 3.0 – one major annoyance

BT Home Hub 3

We just “upgraded” to a BT Home Hub 3.0 after having some problems with the old version 2 which kept losing settings (including the password). It looks nice, but don’t believe the press that it’s the “most sought after router on the market” or however they worded the hyperbole. [...]