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Gmail is usually pretty good about spam filtering. But not at the moment. As of the last 2 or 3 days,the spam I know it caught before is now ending up in my mailbox. And I think I know why. The same thing happened over Christmas. Suddenly all the spam appeared in my inbox. . . . →Read More:Gmail and the periodic spam filtering failure I am sitting for the part one of the RSCDS‘preliminary teaching certificate. The part one is mostly theory and history,so involves a good lot of memorisation,with the hope that memorised facts will aid later deep comprehension. I am using flashcards to help me remember the facts. I have free software installed on . . . →Read More:Flashcards I am using to prepare for RSCDS preliminary examination I don’t normally take the personality tests on the web,but the personalDNA one looked more interesting than others with sliders,buckets and grid methods of rating the response. And it does not take too long.So,after the test I got qualified as a Respectful Inventor,which I am quite happy about. And it . . . →Read More:PersonalDNA:I am a Respectful Inventor After Soviet Union stunned the world with the launch of the Sputnik in 1957,USA allocated a lot of money to education,including foreign languages study. That had kick started a lot of research and produced some new methods of language learning. And now we are repeating that past again. As a delayed response to . . . →Read More:Back to the ’60s:USA government is ready to pay for language learning again Jon Udell is not happy about having to transcribe podcast URLs that iTunes displays,but does not allow to copy. While the general point about lock-in is good,here is a quick techie workaround in a meanwhile. However much iTunes may want to hide the URLs,at some point it has to actually retrieve something . . . →Read More:The techie way of liberating the podcast URL from iTunes Lose weight and learn DNA structures at the same time –sounds good to me. In yet another example of (sort-of) serious games,Dance Dance Revolution stepping game (or more likely the open source StepMania) has been adapted to use DNA base symbols as direction pads in a game,where correct dance sequence will cause . . . →Read More:Stepping through DNA:learning through dance steps Michael Baum reports on the survey of system administrators regarding their troubleshooting activities. It is an interesting summary,but something is missing. There seem to be a lot of questions regarding how the problems are handled now with the predictable answers of base power tools like grep,perl and Ethereal. What I don’t see is . . . →Read More:Re:How Hard is it to Troubleshoot IT Anyway? There is a lively discussion around the article by one of the authors of Freakonomics on whether the internet is good or bad to the publishing industry. My take on it is that the internet is bad for publishing industry as it was a year ago. But having to respond to the internet,has actually . . . →Read More:Comments on “Is the Internet the Publishing Industry’s Best Friend?” Both my wife and I borrow a lot of books from the library (great NYPL),but even with the generous renewal policies,sometimes the books get lost between two cards and we get overdue fines. So,I was very glad to find a link to LibraryElf (via LibraryStuff),which will take your library cards and . . . →Read More:Using library without worry of overdue fees with LibraryElf I like reading books. But the inventor of BedBooks must like reading them at least couple of degrees more. So,he sells books printed sideways. It has to be seen to be believed. (via LibrarianInBlack) In fact,if he were not selling them,this method would be a perfect candidate for the halls of ChinDogu. . . . →Read More:Strangest book layout yet:BedBooks | ||||
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