Posts by Robigus
6 posts • joined Wednesday 12th May 2010 11:22 GMT
Keep a 10 year old handy
I had a look and they weren't released. As I stood up and moved away from the kitchen computer, my youngest slipped into the seat and was watching the page and refreshing. He nearly exploded with excitement when it changed within seconds (and nearly went hypo but that's another story). Managed to bag a 16GB as a surprise for wifey - his excitement blew the surprise out of the water though.
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Nexus S
After what seemed like an eternity waiting for ICS, I received my Jelly Bean update OTA last night on my Nexus S.
I was already used to it as my Nexus 7 came pre installed with it - at least - it probably did. SWMBO swiped it and I've barely seen it since, and as I haven't been bombarded with "How" and "it's rubbish because" and "stupid thing" and "why doesn't it" etc, I can only assume that Jelly Bean functions well.
Medtronic Veo
My son's pump has got a limiter that prevents large boluses of insulin. We've set the level quite low deliberately.
The comms to upload the data through the USB connector needs to be ruddy close (within a few inches) to make a connection, and the connection needs to be initiated from the pump itself. (Don't get me started on the Java applet that "requires Microsoft Windows (TM) and Internet Explorer"). VirtualBox, you were sent by Jupiter Himself.
When his blood glucose goes very low, the pump shuts down to prevent background insulin from going in.
Having met with the manufacturers and had conference calls with their development department and having harangued them at length about my need for a Bluetooth interface, I have a few degrees of scepticism about this article being aimed at their devices.
Salt sowers
I hate to be pedantic, but the whole "Romans sowing salt on the land" after the defeat of the Cartheginians is widely perceived to be untrue, so to make assertions that the Romans actually did so is pushing it a bit.
Still, it made me read a story about cloud computing though - so who's the sucker?
I taught it
In a secondary school.
I went straight from Industry, mainly databases, C++, C# etc.
What I learned, was the the whole of the syllabus can be summarised as "How to teach Microsoft Office".
Other teachers were well-meaning, but mostly clueless. Virtually all types of system/programs were referred to as their MS name (Excel etc.), there was no knowledge of anything else, and to be fair, it just felt pointless learning. You are constrained by the system and the syllabus, and the system says that MS Office is the world.
There was one part of the GCSE course where the kids had to do programming. MS Office to the rescue! Record a macro and watch it create your code for you. We even had videos on loop showing them how to do tasks. They could watch and imitate the clicks. No thought required.
We were preparing students for the monotony of dreary desk jobs.
Summarise the GCSE - open MS Office, press F1 - it's all there.
*Sigh*
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Old school
"The extent of airbrushing meant that when we subsequently encountered real women we were surprised to find they had nipples and pubic hair"
Wow! They must've had Photoshop Clockwork Edition.
