Posts by DaddyHoggy 191 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Nov 2011
"yes I never expected The Hobbit trilogy to aim for people over 40 (No disrespect intended) who want a Sherlock Holmes plot all the time."
Do you know what us over-40s wanted (well this over-40 anyway) - we wanted the plot (and characters) from "The Hobbit" - you know the actual book written by Tolkien - the author Jackson claims to adore and respect.
I stopped using Tesco as my ISP when I switched from dial up to fibre with Virgin (then NTL) 10 years ago.
I still use my Tesco accoubt via webmail interface. It has performed faultlessly for all those years and their tech help still helped when I couldn't log on after a password change (this is when I discovered the only thing I don't like - a 9 char password limit).
I thought I'd wait a few days to see if the two extremes in opinion had moved closer together - it would seem not.
I backed Elite: Dangerous on Day 1, the promise of an offline mode was right there on day 1, on the Kickstarter page.
My reasons for wanting/needing an Offline mode:
1) Despite what some people think many people don't always have Internet access (I work on a military base - access to the Internet is not authorised for apps like ED - I work inside what is basically a giant Faraday cage so no mobile signal - so I can't tether a phone even if I had the mobile contract that would allow that)
2) My home life is complicated (mainly for health related reasons) - game playing when it happens is in quick bursts and is often interrupted - you can't pause a persistent universe.
3) I often work away (some places have Internet, some don't) - so I could go weeks without being able to fire up ED - in that time the game I left behind could have changed dramatically (and given past experiences of other games - always for the worse!)
4) If Frontier go bust - we ALL lose the game - not sure why this doesn't bother everybody - if there was an offline version we'd still have that.
5) No offline means that we'll inevitably be dragged into a micro-purchasing model - "Buy stuff or we won't keep the servers running" - "Buy stuff or you'll find you're out-gunned, out-manoeuvred, out-played, etc..."
Finally, for those who are happy with the persistent online - good for you - but as I said - I pitched in on Day 1 of the KS for a game I now won't get - I also - over the rest of the time persuaded six of my students to jump on board too - they were military students - they also work in places where there's no Internet connection - so I feel like I tricked them too.
The one small saving grace for me is that I turned down the chance to buy a good gaming laptop at a bargain price about six months ago when I still had some cash - it turns out that this was a good thing to have done since, with no offline mode, it will/would never be used for playing ED...
My daughter has an Win 8.1 laptop and a Win Phone 8.1.
We can't get anything to stably sync between these two devices. Worse - the laptop recently fell over and had to have a clean re-install of Win 8.1. After it was finished I copied back all her personal files from her OneDrive - success I thought - but not so - it would seem that OneDrive didn't copy the files back - it moved them back - the OneDrive is now empty - her personal files are on her laptop - I can't see them on the phone any more and even though OneDrive continues to assure me the "My XXXX" folders are sync'd - it won't copy these files back to OneDrive itself and if I do it manually - they seem to - eventually - disappear again...
As she also has access to my Android tablet we now use Google Drive to Sync/back-up her files.
I'm pretty sure Europe agreed some time ago not to fire Plutonium* sourced Radioisotope thermoelectric generator into space - even for scientific reasons.
Given the Rosetta team managed to guide a space probe for ten years - using technology that was designed twenty years ago and actually get the thing there - you'd think these bright boys and girls might have considered these things - and given the lander doesn't have a RTG there are obviously reasons why it hasn't...
* Pu238 because it has a decent half-life, requires the least amount of shielding and yields the best power:weight ratio.
My Seiko Kinetic watch has been ticking over nicely for 15 years now. I wear it daily, so I presume the battery stays fully charged - but still 15 years is good going.
I did stop wearing it once for a week. After a couple of days the pointers stopped moving, but I gave it a little shake and they moved back to the right time and carried on where they left off.
As a time piece that I don't have to think about/interact with other than its actual function of telling me the time when I look at it - it's perfect.
I have a Kindle for all those times where an author offers a book for free and/or very cheap. If it's a new author it's a chance to see if they're any good - and if they are - I will seek out dead-tree variants of their work wherever possible.
Even "proper" authors do it sometimes - in last last couple of months I have downloaded free/cheap copies of books by Neil Gaiman and Robert Rankin, some of which I already have as physical books, others which I know I will eventually own as dead-tree variants too.
Actually, I suspect what will happen is that those authors with the best marketing campaigns via social media will garner the most votes once/if selected. If a few genuinely well written books also get published that will be a bonus.
Amazon don't care what actually gets published - only that it sells - and if a good self-promoter has already drummed up some potential business/sales (even for a dreadful book (i.e. 50 Shades...)) so much the better.
And only US Amazon account holders get to vote too (according to the article) - so that will skew what are seen as 'good' books too.
Finally, it's possible to polish an excerpt until it positively glows (I've seen it done) - even if the rest of the book lacks plot, story arc, character development, etc...
The tile layout helps her find stuff quickly she says, the bright colours and geometric patterns remain stable as she scans the screen*. - Android icon and (names) move around when she tries to read them she tells me - which is classic dyslexia.
And yes, I've heard of product placement (I presume the down votes were because people thought I wasn't?) what I was trying to indicate (without writing an essay) was that, as a father of an easily impressionable teen, seeing other teens (on a TV show) using Nokia Lumias sets their little minds a whirling with possibilities...
I presume Nokia/Microsoft got their product placement for exactly this reason.
And at the Uni where I work, I see more students with Android devices (I lecture on a tech heavy degree course) than anything else, but since the start of term I've notice more Microsoft/Nokia handsets than Apple ones for the first time.
Purely anecdotal observation of course - but I find it interesting - if anything it's nice just to water down the Apple v Android flamings a little bit.
* It took us forever to find a laptop where the keyboard didn't move around when she tried to type on it - all to do with spacing of keys relative to the size and shape of the typeface on the keys it turned out.
My dyslexic (teenage) daughter loves her Lumia 630, the layout helps immensely, she informs me, and she likes the commonality in interface between it and her Windows 8.1 laptop.
We (and by 'we' I mean she went 50:50 on the cost with us) also only paid £100 for it (SIM and contract free - now on a sub-contract off my wife's Three contract) when she declined the use of my wife's perfectly serviceable HTC Desire S.
I also noticed that in the new TV show "Glue" all the teen kids on that have Nokia Lumia phones - so I think the Lumia will find it's own market but it will be mostly amongst the teens - but teens eventually become money-earning adults...
Companies buy bulk cheap SoC cpus that be programmed to cope with a large raft of that company's embedded processing needs. If you can buy 10,000 or 100,000 of them at 10p each and they happen to have enough grunt to run something that, when it came out, would run on a 486, then that's just the way it is.
Moore's law doesn't just move the top end of the processing power along.
My daughter's Hudl stopped recharging - the microUSB port died (apparently this happens a lot to pre-Christmas rush Hudls). By the time I noticed it was almost out of charge - so I ported off what I could to the microSD card and then performed a Factory Reset - surprised that it didn't take very long - but since the battery finally completely expired a few minutes later, I didn't get chance to do much else with it.
It then went back to Tesco for a warranty replacement.
Have changed account passwords (as I had the admin acct on it, I changed hers and mine Google logins for example) - so hoping that even if this unit does get refurb'd, and the factory reset is potentially ineffectual, nobody will be able to login with the account details stored on the device.
Four years ago we bought a Wii for the family + Wii Fit + board + four controllers + loads of Nintendo (made rather than licensed) Wii titles.
We have also moved from a brace of DS lites to DSis and again a collection of games but that was also a few years ago.
As a family we have no interest in the Wii U and definitely not in the 3DS, but since there don't seem to be any new games for the DSi and decent Wii games are now rare we're not buying software either.
So, if we're typical of Nintendo's demographic I'm not surprised their profits have turned into losses - they haven't made anything we've wanted to buy for several years...
I used to have a Three branded Samsung Galaxy Ace and it was never patched ever in the two years I owned it. Three said it was Samsung not issuing updates. I had higher hopes this year as I now have an sim-free SIII mini, but that's stuck at 4.1.2 and Samsung (via email) said they're not releasing any more updates for my model...
And both the manufacturers and carriers wonder why people get frustrated and root their phones and/or try alternative Firmwares... <sigh>
The Highway Code stated when I took my test that you shouldn't undertake unless there's a speed differential between lanes - otherwise - for example - if lane 1 was free flowing but for some reason lane 2 suddenly snarled up - by your reasoning lane 1 should also come to a halt - even if there was no reason to - because they'd be undertaking...
My copy of the highway code had a little set of images which had two cars travelling in the middle lane - the rear of the two cars passing on the inside (lane 1) of the front car in lane 2, before itself return to lane 2 - that was classed as undertaking.
Travelling at 70mph in lane 1 and driving past a car that's doing 60mph in lane 2, is not undertaking as far as the Highway code (when I took my test) was concerned.
Tom Watson started tweeting about what was then an unnamed bill with an empty description on the Friday, he guessed it was DRIP that was going to magically appear on the Monday - and he was right - my own MP ignored all questions about the bill or about how he voted after the bill - so I guess he voted it through then...
So, if somebody breaks into your house, steals your iDevice and your Apple Mac, because they're in close proximity the iDevice will remain unlocked?
If you move house - will you have to start again about teaching the device's security that this is a safe area and it doesn't need to be locked?
Genuine questions because while context sensitive security sounds like a good idea if badly implemented it will be very annoying.
(And wasn't it revealed recently that Apple's record on security isn't that great - I'm thinking about the password system for connecting to WiFi hotspots was shown to be very flawed)
[I would quite like it if I didn't have to password unlock my S3 mini at home - i.e. it was connected to my home wifi, but did have to unlock it everywhere else - so I'm all for the concept]
A month ago we bought my 12yo a Lumia 620, it last 4 days and then died - refusing to charge, and no PC - not even my Win8 laptop could connect to it in this dead state. Amazon have agreed to take it back and have refunded the cash.
I've been waiting for reviews of the 630/635 before either buying another 620 or, more probably, a 625.
In the four days it worked - my 12yo liked the live tiles, she liked the dedicated camera button and the front facing camera...
We're on 3 as a network provider so if we went for the 625 she'd get 4G where available for no extra cost.
I like the idea of being able to install apps on the microSD card and all my spare cards are Class 10, so there's no extra outlay there if we went for the 630...
Decisions, decisions...
I was kind of hoping there'd be something to definitely push me back to the 625 or make the 630 the clear choice but there's not... I suspect cost will be the big driver, sub-100 v c. 140 for a sim-free 625 (since the 12yo is "going halves" with her own savings) - may be a wait a few weeks and see if the cost of the 625 comes down a bit more once the 630/635 hits the market properly...
@AskeBay are still insisting that Personal Details were also "encrypted" which is at least 'different' from what their actual statement online says which specifically says that the passwords were encrypted but makes no such claim over my personal details.
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AskeBay: @DaddyHoggy There is no evidence of any unauthorized access to personal or financial info, as it's stored separately in encrypted formats ^E 11:47am, May 22 from Attensity Respond 6
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They have so far ignored my follow up tweet asking to clarify that my personal details were 'encrypted' too - and if they were why does their statement only mention encrypted passwords.
Could all the forward facing speed cameras that are springing up all over the UK be modified to detect the signal from a mobile phone and take a photograph - if, when processed, the photograph indicates that the driver was using his/her mobile phone in a non-hands free manner, then use current legislation, already to available to law enforcement agencies to heavily fine said driver and issue points - if they keep doing it, they will eventually lose their license and be banned from driving anyway - thus, the issue of using a phone while driving goes away (for them at least)...
I tried to help Nokia/Microsoft out last week. My daughter switched from Android to Windows Phone 8, going from a (well behaved and loyal) HTC Desire S to a Nokia Lumia 620.
After a day of faffing setting the thing up (like not really understanding how the whole Parental Control thing worked - because the MS account I thought I'd tied to the phone thought I was 12 and not 42 for historical reasons - I was confused as to why I needed to ask my parent to give me permission to give my daughter permission to download Windows Apps... However, I digress...) my daughter got five days use out of the 620 before it bricked itself. (What it actually did was freeze completely, not even responding to the physical on/off button, after 20 minutes of cursing at frozen phone I gave up and removed the battery. On replacing the battery, nothing happened. Plugging it into the charger, give me a red bar battery indicator and nothing else. A day of charging and still nothing. Nokia (via Twitter) suggested their Software Recovery Tool, but the SRT and indeed Windows 7 or 8 refused to acknowledge the phone was plugged in via USB other than to tell me that the device had been disconnected (without it seemingly "connecting" to start with).
So, the phone's going back to Amazon who offered a no quibble refund. Unfortunately my daughter still wants a WP8 phone and although I'm hoping the set up will be easier I'm loathe to try another Nokia...
(Any suggestions for an unlocked Sim-Free, sub-£200 WP8 based on personal experience, gratefully accepted!)
I Tweeted @ThreeUK and linked to this article.
They linked back to their standard "Setting up a PIN" page.
I have pointed out that this article shows PIN is bypassed.
Fecking idiots.
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ThreeUK: @DaddyHoggy We offer the following advice to anyone who is concerned about security: po.st/BfQEdr
Original Message:
http://twitter.com/ThreeUK/status/459664401872986112
Having played with lots of different phones recently, my 12yo dyslexic daughter settled on a WP8 phone, a Nokia Lumia 620 because for her, the layout and integration of functionality made perfect sense (she likes her Win8 laptop too - go figure). She never really got on with my wife's old HTC Desire S, so for her to be enthused about a phone is encouraging (she's reached that age where she wants to increase her independence and has started to communicate via grunts and texts). So, I'll be hoping that when 8.1 rolls out to the masses it's not too different from what she has grown to love.
I use my @ntlworld.com email address to register for stuff I don't really care about. (such as Facebook)
When VM took over NTL they said I would get a @virgin.net account - either this never happened or I failed to jump through some unknown hoops to do so.
However, on this occasion, I'm glad, as the article suggested, this was limited to virgin.net accts as my NTL one is just filled with the normal marketing spam that I highlight and delete a couple of times a year.
My wife got an email (apparently) from mumsnet telling her to follow a link to change her password.
Problem is 1) following links in unsolicited emails that require you to change your password is obviously a big no-no 2) my wife doesn't recall ever joining Mumsnet...
Finding out today that Mumsnet really did send a blanket email to all 1.5M members telling them to follow a link to change their password leads to the following conclusions: 1) Mumsnet are silly for sending out the email this way 2) given that they did send out that type of email and that my wife got one from (apparently) Mumsnet even though she has never registered with them implies that the spammers/hackers have already started sending out spoof emails in an effort to exploit these mass panic email blasts from affected sites...
I used Lent as an excuse to stop using Facebook (several of my friends gave up Social Media in the run up to Easter last year and I thought I'd join them this year) - I've not missed it at all - and even in the month I've been away I think FBs continual changes make it less and less appealing to return!
A decade ago I used to spend a lot of time in Richer Sounds. I eventually settled on a huge Kenwood DTS capable amplifier, 5.1 and 100W RMS per channel and solid wood, beech veneer 5.1 Eltax speakers (my wife got to chose the finish as she said the front speakers were so large they were effectively pieces of furniture...)
We don't have a big living room and indeed from the sofa the 32" HD Toshiba TV we have is big enough for us (as in "it's all we have the space for") and, like the article writer, I find the standard TV speakers are not very good except for day-to-day stuff, as soon as we put on a film (irrespective of source - DVD, Blu-ray, External HD (plugged into BR player), Freeview HD box) then we switch on the Kenwood amp.
If we can't have big visuals we might as well have big audio!
I can't imagine replacing my Kenwood amp when it finally dies with a soundbar - I will be back to Richer Sounds and grabbing myself a new amp - this time with HDMI and ethernet/wi-fi connectivity too... (and 7.1, THX, etc...)
I recently gave up Facebook (and find I do not miss it at all) - having given up one Social Media outlet it should be relatively easy to give up another. If Twitter fills my Tweetfeed with ads or peppers its default web-page with the same I'll find alternative methods of access or, stop using Twitter too.
They're nice-to-haves, once they stop being that, then I'll just stop using them...
Most Scientific papers are submitted in PDF format (so it doesn't stand that they're written in Word by default) and if there's lots of equations TexMaths (a LaTeX plug-in) in LibreOffice works well, irrespective of whether you're editing your report/paper on your Linux based number cruncher or Uni supplied MS Office based PC and most academics long ago fell out of love with MS Word over its rather sorry Equation Editor in its early history and have not returned.
Edit: What eulampios said far more eloquently!
Thank-you. This sadly sounds like a self fulfilling prophecy though - students use MS at home so uni's rely on this fact and so use MS at uni because their future employers do, employers use MS because they always have and all the students leaving uni only know how to use MS products...
My 12yo despite her dyslexia seems to be pretty good at everything but wants to drama (mainly) - the school drama dept seems to be a good mix of PCs and Macs because they're taught the technical side too - lighting, music, choreography and the useful apps in this area seem to fall equally into both camps.
I guess I should also 'fess that I also work at a Uni - Cranfield - but being post-grad only most of our students have worked in the real world first and so, oddly (by your definition of a student), reasonably comfortable when presented with Linux or Android Virtual Machines that run some of our non-PC/MS based applications.
(And the big job for this summer is upgrading the last 60 PCs of my 120 PC lab from XP to Windows 7 - and then installing lots of Virtual Machines on them to run the apps we have that will only run under Linux/XP!)
If your Uni's presumption is that most students only want to use Microsoft at uni because they've only used/familiar with Microsoft products at home - then you've got about 10 years before my (currently) seven year old gets to Uni because she has no interest in PC/Microsoft at all - she's happy to do everything on her Android Tablet - which includes basic word processing using either the touch screen virtual keyboard, or, a Bluetooth keyboard.
I know several of my 12yo daughter's peers who only use Microsoft at school because they have to - but live in an App filled world of smart devices, be they, Android or iOS based. The slim glimmer of hope for Microsoft is that my 12yo has asked for a Nokia Lumia after her HTC Desire S expires as her best friend as one and loves it (apparently).
With regards to your point 3.
Ability to 'use' Microsoft != IT 'skills'.
My 12yo daughter uses Windows 8.1 and LibreOffice at home, Windows 7 and MS Office at school, she has a Raspberry Pi for tinkering with and is learning to use Scratch and program in Python (got to start somewhere) as they work equally well under Windows and Linux. At school (Year 7) they're teaching HTML now and Javascript next year - I'm hoping she'll be genuinely IT 'skilled' and not just 'I don't know how to use this because it's not a Microsoft product.'
The 'skill' in IT is being adaptable to changes in platform and/or taking your programming abilities in one language and developing them to fit the syntax of another...
What uni do you work at? Perhaps in 6 years time my daughter can look elsewhere...
Upvoted because I went down the Commodore route (C64->A500->A500+) before stumbling into the PC Market with a Win95 Dell P60 with 16MB of RAM, which I immediately upgraded to Win98SE 96MB RAM and a P90 (the most that particular Dell would allow me to upgrade).
(I still have two working C64s and A500s although that Dell is long gone...)
When I worked for the MOD we had an incredibly expensive data capture machine with an Internal SCSI HD. To get to the data you had to hook it up to a Win98SE machine with a certain Adaptec family of SCSI cards and refresh the SCSI bus, which, after a few seconds pause, the Win98SE machine found the internal HD of the Data Capture Unit and we could read the data.
This function only ever worked in Win98SE! When we upgraded our labs PCs to NT4 and some others to XP, we discovered that this option never worked under these OSes. The manufacturer of the Data Capture Device tried very hard to come up with a solution but failed. So we kept a stock of Win98SE machines, Adaptec cards and SCSI drives because we couldn't afford to replace £100,000 worth of Data Capture Device with the £250,000 latest version of it.
This loss/change of functionality wasn't done maliciously by either the Device's manufacturer nor probably MS - it was probably never even conceived as 'an issue' until it became an issue...
A quick look in the cupboard reveals my HP 800CT (Win95B), My IBM Thinkpad 300 (Dual boot Win98SE/Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon), Generic naughties Acer P4 laptop (XP SP3) - they all still "work" - but I accept that my HP and IBM basically don't work on the modern 'net any more (and so I don't connect them) and that, actually, the Acer, if I keep it on XP will be the most vulnerable on the 'net (and I've tried a few liveCDs of various Linux distros and none of them seem to work fully on it), so I will probably just stick to my little Asus netbook (Win7 Starter of course) that I'm writing this on and increasingly my Tesco Hudl using a Bluetooth keyboard.
I will miss XP, we had some great times together!
(My daughter's laptop is Win8.1 running Classic Shell - it's sufficiently XP like now for me to resist the urge to throw it down the stairs)
I'm pretty sure my first Sony Ericcson and Nokia mobes automatically underlined telephone numbers (and occasionally bank account numbers and such like) and email addresses in texts and, if highlighted, gave me the option to save to contacts/call/text/email - both these phones pre-dated the existence of the iPhone - so how can this be an Apple patent? I really don't understand...
Can somebody please try and explain this to me?
I've currently got a Dell XPS M1730 that is really on its last legs (before the 3yr warranty ran out it had had 2 new mobos, 3 'new' dual SLI 9800M boards, 'new' Blu-Ray drive, 3 new PSUs and a new screen.
And that screen is 1920x1200 and I will miss it when it goes (the screen, not the laptop) - having already moved to a really lovely Novatech gaming rig - but only with a 1920x1080 screen (and I already miss the real-estate).
However, if you like Dell and want a hi-res screen - look at the XPS 15 with a QHD screen (3200x1800): http://www.dell.com/uk/p/xps-15-9530/pd?oc=cnx9502&model_id=xps-15-9530
Oddly enough I worked at the Rutherford Appleton Labs in the early 90s. When some Gov't agency came to test the radiation 'escaping' from ISIS (where I worked) - they were a 'bit worried' about the dose - until, apparently, one of the guys cut out a square of turf and got them to test the soil underneath - which showed absolutely minimal radiation - the turf however continued to display higher than expected doses - all of course, as proved later, from the coal ash/dust from Didcot Power Station...)
We used the BBC iPlayer on the Wii for quite a while - it was OK when we had an SD TV, but looked pretty bad on the HD TV.
Now we just connect the Hudl via a micro-HDMI and sadly, it does a much better job of the iPlayer...
And you're right - actually connecting Wiis together was pointless (we did actually do it once - with a friends) and not being able to play DVDs was VERY annoying.
Although for me - the main gripe was I did use the Wii as a music player and after one firmware upgrade (to support SD cards larger than 2GB I think) - they also changed the format of the music that could be played on the console. From mp3 to aac. They didn't support mp3 as well - they just threw it away - leaving me with well over 1GB of unplayable mp3s - I was VERY cross about that.
The year after the Wii came out we bought one as a family Christmas present. Despite its age, despite its lack of HD output (but connected to a HD TV), it's still played with most weekends, and played on as a family. Mum and Dad (i.e. me and my wife) and our girls (currently 12 and 6) play as a family.
We're currently playing Sonic and Mario at the Winter Olympics (from Canada) to match current TV output from Sochi and the 12 yr thoroughly enjoys beating her old dad at the various "Lets Dance" games...
If it dies we will probably buy another one - if the price is right - but, unfortunately for Nintendo, we won't be buying a Wii U.
I'm still a bit miffed that there doesn't seem to be any new non-3D games for our collection of 3 DSi handhelds - yes - we still play on our DSi consoles - although pretty much exclusively linked Mario Kart, nowadays since there are no new games that are better (which in itself is rather telling...)
So, for us, the Wii was the right console for us, the family unit, we had no interest in the XBox or PS equivalents and we still don't...
If you're a business with perhaps 10 - 100 machines connected to your cloud facilities via 10Gb/s with VOIP, teleconferencing, online training, storage, backups all going via your Google Fibre connection then I'm sure Google can see the symbiotic (some would say parasitic) relationship as advantageous to both Google and the business using their services.
Tesco (.com and .net) have useless password protection. After the last breach I tried to change my password to a much stronger one. When it changed but I found I couldn't logon I contacted their Help. "Only use the first 10 characters of that password and you'll be fine..."
It was an unusual and inaccurate definition of the word 'fine'.
For me I was lucky enough to get a C64 in 1983 aged 12. I started with Commodore Basic (ah PEEKing and POKEing) then Simons' Basic, then assembler. Then in '89 I got an Amiga and started again (multi threading!). At Uni I did C, Smalltalk (Object Oriented, classes, inheritance) and (shudder) Ada.
I discovered I not a natural programmer, but will plug away if I'm interested in the end results. This stood me in good stead with the MOD when they gave me 100,000+ lines of FORTRAN 77 code to debug in my first year there... Now I have a curious 12yo daughter an RPi + Scratch + Python + PiCraft and as long as she can see the end result she's loving it.
The original name for Newcastle Polytechnic when it was becoming a University (now the University of Northumbria) - was...
City University Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- since they didn't use the 'u' in 'upon' in the Acronym, that would have been an interesting first test print run of the new letterhead...
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