Well, it’s been a little while – so I thought that with this Job’s Bus thing I’m doing at Claire’s school today I had better get ready.
One of the things that seemed to impress the kids last year was using a webcam to post them onto the internet. This was done on Claire’s laptop with [...]

I’ve found a pretty nifty (and free) program on the Internet called Desk Marker.
Basically it will allow you to turn your mouse into a desktop drawing tool so that you can annotate what is on the screen. What is even more useful is that when you move any windows around the screen after you have [...]

I was premature with the fixing of the squaking beast last week. The problem manifested itself this week again.
To fix the beast, I settles on copying the NTUSER.DAT file from the laptop next door, as the pupil profiles are identical over all the laptops. Let’s hope it works this time.
I suppose it might have been [...]

A new problem from the people at RM. When loading up Talking First Word, one of the laptops barfed with save file dialog boxes constantly popping up. This would happen straight away and not stop until you’d pressed ‘cancel’ a great deal of times.
After ‘repairing’ (I’m still convinced that it does nothing) Office XP, I [...]

So here I am back at CCJ and everything is normal. There was a log in the technician book asking for a form to add Internet links to the school’s intranet. So I reinstalled Dreamweaver on the development machine (a loose term – it’s an Intel 500mhz with 64MB RAM).
Anyway, I sat down and completed [...]