Today is Holocaust Memorial Day. I found out about a little known event in the Second World War that connected war-torn Nazi Europe to a mid-western state, Iowa. The finding of the story was pure accident.One of the happy accidents that come from searching for one thing on the net and then suddenly coming across [...]
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I accompanied my wife to the doctor’s today. On the noticeboard there was a statement that made me think. This Thursday morning there is no surgery because they are doing staff training. On the notice it said one small statement “TIME TO LEARN”. I have recently retired from my position as a local authority mathematics [...]
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In the wake of the SOPA/PIPA issue, here are my ten reasons the internet must remain uncensored: (1) Our lives are now immersed in the free flow of knowledge.. no government should dictate what constitutes the knowledge that we have the right to receive. (2) The internet is a network of immense size and possibility [...]
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Every year at this time I try to include a post about a man who I am so proud to say shares the same birthday as myself (15th January) the great and never to be forgotten Dr Martin Luther King Junior. This year I have been fortunate to come across a video that has a [...]
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I must admit that I knew very little about Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) until I followed a link to a site about a potentially powerful computer studies breakthrough called Raspberry Pi following a conversation I had yesterday with my brother. The latest post on the site started as follows: On January 18, Raspberry Pi, alongside many [...]
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Two years ago this week I was embarking on the first full month of writing for this blog. I had a few posts that had picked up some following. On 10th January a huge earthquake hit the Island of Haiti. The world stood by as shocking pictures appeared nightly on our television screens. The total [...]
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Yesterday (January 8th) was the 65th birthday of David Bowie and would have been the 77th birthday of Elvis Presley. It was also one year exactly since Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, who represented Arizona’s 8th congressional district since 2007 was shot in the head by a would-be assassin near Tucson. On that Saturday [...]
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This morning I followed a link in Facebook to a new article in “Education Nation” by Professor Chris Dede called “Give Students Mobile Devices to Maximize Their Learning Time“. In the article Professor Dede states that mobile devices have six senses: 1. Knowing where you are 2. Interacting with networks 3. Sensing local content and [...]
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I have been reading some wonderful things this morning on the net. My day usually begins (after a quick breakfast) with a look at Facebook, Google Plus, my blog dashboard and of course Twitter. Today I found two really interesting things on Face book that made me think: Here is the first of them, an [...]
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I am setting out on my first year of retirement. It is an interesting, if daunting, change of life circumstances. There are opportunities as well as the possibility of many many problems and of course there is the need to adapt to a new routine, being at home a lot more and feeling that I [...]
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