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Translating Government Spin on Education?
re: BBC NEWS | Education | Professions ‘reserved for rich’ Top professions such as medicine and law are increasingly being closed off to all but the most affluent families, a report into social mobility has said. Potential translation: The state of education in the UK has declined so dramatically that the majority of people who…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-21
13:37 – it's that time of day # dropsafe is going down in a few minutes for an upgrade; don't panic. # Hmm "A network problem or firewall is blocking all connections from your web server to Akismet.com. Akismet cannot work until this is fixed" # @c0t0d0s0 much sympathy; have been there too. Took 5…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-20
Cornish County-Mounties Cock-up Cook-out http://is.gd/1F2bS – am more worried they are scanning FB for potential miscreants / leads … # http://twitpic.com/azjma – Fitting the hard disk into the cement. # quote: “the music business should be about making music, not shipping plastic disks”; thus publishing shouldn’t be about shipping books? 🙂 # http://twitpic.com/azm46 – 35Gb…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-19
@darrenmoffat real; i would need a wii for the latter. in reply to darrenmoffat # I’ve been wondering about the footprints for maybe 35 years: http://bit.ly/CmVPN #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-18
Duckworth Lewis on Video: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/8153693.stm # live on video http://qik.ly/Y9aC # Dear #qik; I can’t work out on Android how to upload videos recorded in “offline” mode. Advice? Link to help webpage in Application? #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-17
@CliveMKing complain to the school that the teacher does not know the meaning of the word “weal” ? in reply to CliveMKing # # “We had joy, we had fun, we were all working at Sun … ” – [insert your own ending] # The reason I keep comments open is that you can have…
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python and django: i are am teh learnings – a review of learning django
Pymine is underway at last, and learning Python has been quite the experience. Python as a language is marvelously clear and concise (although I wistfully miss the “swashbuckling” qualities of Perl) and I can well see why it is so popular in enterprise deployments; Django has in 48 hours replaced a few thousand lines of…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-16
warm figs, liquid honey, creme fraiche and some crumbled speculoos – more yummy. 🙂 # @nrosier they are relatively rare, but obtainable. Not part of the national consciousness – other biscuits take that role. in reply to nrosier # Kent Police clamp down on tall photographers — http://is.gd/1zPyb — v.silly, sad # http://twitpic.com/afw1t – Batons…
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The Time Has Come To Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO – Not
Techcrunch is publishing some real rubbish, nowadays: The Time Has Come To Regulate Search Engine Marketing And SEO Imagine, if you will, that the entire Internet is contained within a single continent. That continent is filled with countries, states and cities. Each jurisdiction is autonomous, relying on visitors to cross on to their turf to…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-15
http://twitpic.com/abhyd – Lunch with darren # reminder: IF YOU ARE BEING RIF’D FROM SUN UK, PLEASE ADD TO THIS TODO LIST / CHECKLIST / POST http://is.gd/1yBcL # http://twitpic.com/ac8bf – New joists being installed # Arrived Today: The Duckworth Lewis Method. Ripped. # strawberries for breakfast. and espresso. yummy. # live on video http://qik.com/video/2196865 #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-14
@stephenfry may have killed both #pingwire and #twitpic? force-amplification effect. new #CDoS attack – Celebrity Denial of Service # #Tesco have an API? http://bit.ly/JL5AX I wonder if it lets me see my purchase history. Via @https://twitter.com/adriana872 @carriebish #vrm #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-13
I see great lolcat possibilities in qik: http://www.qik.com/video/2178608 #