Catshanghai

Our new house is full of fresh, cut pineapples at the moment. We are using fruit to improve the smell of our home by filling the rooms with a sweet fragrance while gathering all the bad odours that have accumulated over three months of renvoation. Local refurbishment projects are very cheap compared to Europe so [...]

Here is the copy from my weekly ICT column in the school newsletter.
I have seen students use lots of different tools and methods to take notes when they are researching information from the Internet.
The most common method I have seen is to copy and paste extracts on to a Word document. There is nothing [...]

e-Qaeda (washingtonpost.com)
Video interview with Evan Kohlman about the use of the Internet by terrorist groups.
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ITWALES.COM - Welsh woman wins case over email spying
This is a story about a Welsh woman called Alison Love who won a case against her employer after they had been spying on her personal Email.
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It has taken us two months and cost us nearly $25 000 USD to refurbish our new appartment near Nanpu Bridge in Shanghai. The project has not yet finished, but this is what we will get for our money.

Design and project management
Complete gutting and rebuild
New plumbing and electric wiring
New bathroom and kitchen
New bed
Fitted walk-in wardrobe
Underfloor [...]

We saw these really funny, but dark blank CD designs at a stall outside Bridge8 near Jianguo Xi Lu. Each CD only costs 10 rmb. I think they make great presents and I might get the whole set to give to students as prizes. The designs remind me of the logos on The Thing’s t-shirts [...]

China’s Great Firewall turns its attention to RSS feeds
“reports have been popping up from our readers and around the web of not being able to access FeedBurner RSS feeds as early as August of this year. More recent reports tell us that the PSB appears to have extended this block to all incoming URLs that [...]

I have been trying to run Windows XP as a virtual machine from Virtualbox using Ubuntu Feisty as a host. It works pretty well. I have access to most Windows XP services, including Web access, the CD/DVD drive and the sound card. Itunes even works. My big problem remains that I can not access a [...]