A techie’s view

Title: Beautiful movie from Minden High School

Date: “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”

QT_WritePoster_XHTML
(’Click these words to Play’,
‘movie-poster.jpg’,
‘http://www.mindenhigh.com/ldick/media/moviegroup1.m4v’,
‘640′, ‘360′, ”,
‘controller’, ‘true’,
[...]

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Tables: HTML or Images
The first two tables below that you see below are constructed using HTML.

NW
North
NE

West
M
East

SW
South
SE

NW
North
NE

West
M
East

SW
South
SE

These next two tables are the same two tables above, only using a screenshot instead.

I don’t know about you, but I reckon the first two tables look better.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fphilhart.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F02%2F15%2Ftables-to-table-or-not-to-table%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Tables%3A+to+%26lt%3Btable%26gt%3B+or+not+to+%26lt%3Btable%26gt%3B’;
[...]

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The Teaching of Mathematics – a Rant
 
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My Experience of Maths as a Child
When I was a child at school, I learned my maths from teachers with a wide range of understanding of the subject. I was fortunate in that one of my teachers in kindergarten taught it extremely effectively.
As my schooling went on, my understanding [...]

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Why Use Skype?
 
I use Skype as a low cost video-phone.
My partner and I use it to chat with our very dear friends in England about once a fortnight. Being as it uses the Internet, and our friends are also using Skype, it costs us nothing. The cost of making an ordinary telephone call instead just [...]

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Software Crashes – Some Causes and Suggested Remedies
Introduction
This page has been written in response to some of my clients who experience repeated crashes with software. The sequence in which these causes are described come in no particular order.
It summarises my experience over the course of the last 20 years.
Causes and Suggested Remedies
Under-powered computer
An under-powered computer [...]

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