Xtra-Google bundles all the different Google services on one page. Take a look – its quite impressive just how many different services Google offers these days.
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A system of marking exams that is aimed at making the process faster and more efficient is being introduced in the UK: Pupils’ complete exam scripts will be scanned into a computer file by the company managing the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (AQA) examination board’s computer marking, Milton Keynes-based Data and Research Services. Candidates’ . . . → Read More: Marking of GCSE’s to be partially outsourced to India I bought an Airport Express yesterday to stream music from the 500-odd CDs that we have on loaded into iTunes on our Macs to the stereo in the lounge. When at first the installation refused to work (unusual for Apple – everything is usually very easy to set up), I assumed that the problem . . . → Read More: Think I found this a little late, but it makes an interesting read: …It started when the government, in the midst of an economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence . . . → Read More: The rise of… Sometimes I despair of German polititians. Do you have to ask why Germany has the weakest economy in the EU, with more unemployed than at any time since the Weimar Republic in the 1930′s, when leading members of the government tell the public at large to boycott German companies? Reuters 2005-04-17: India, Pakistan Leaders Hold Talks After Cricket. By jingo, I’m glad to see they still remember their British colonial heritage! Nothing like a jolly game of cricket to get the peace process moving again.
Weight of one Sony digital dictaphone: 69 grams. Unverhältnismäßig. Which is an expression we seem to use disproportionately more often in German than in English. It means disproportionate. I mentioned before that the local council is fighting graffiti by allowing artists to paint high quality “graffiti” in places which get vandalised. The previous example is still in good condition, but here is another example, also in Oberursel, on the road to Schmitten. Only a few hundred metres from here, you can see . . . → Read More: Medieval “graffiti” The office where I am currently based is largely constructed using glass, except for the outer walls. We have glass walls pretty much everywhere and in the central area, around the reception desk, the lifts and floors are also made of glass (frosted, in the case of the floors – they are the . . . → Read More: Glass house I wasn’t going to comment on yesterday’s royal wedding, but then I found this delightfully irreverent description of the BBC and ITV coverage of the event in the Scottish Sunday Herald. Here’s a taste: … the wedding itself must be counted a modest success. The bride didn’t scrub up too badly considering she’d spent . . . → Read More: The Royal Wedding |
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