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Making Timetables

One of my responsibilities at school is the generation of the timetable. It is a job that is at once incredibly frustrating and yet incredibly rewarding when it works. I’m in that particular head-space now and while I have a timetable that generates, it is ugly. There are minimal considerations taken into account at this […]

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Media Sharing at Home

A while ago, my laptop screen’s backlight gave up on me. The rest of the machine works perfectly. I’d always wanted a setup that would allow me to watch media in the lounge as opposed to the office. We have a relatively old CRT television (definitely not HDTV capable) but it does have auxiliary RCA […]

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First Experience with a Mac OS X Server

Our school is going to start a BYOD programme in 2014. In 2013 the goal is to get an iPad into the hands of every teacher in the school and to provide them with training. This will allow us, I hope, to move more easily than some schools have done into a scenario where each […]