It seems that this is old news generally, but I found Mario Paint Composer on the Internet yesterday. It was actually due to a YouTube video (why the hell I ended up looking at a Rick Astley song I still don’t know). Of course, there is not one but two composer programs emulating the features [...]

The education sector has by far the most potential to steer and promote the direction of open-source than anything else in the UK. So why has Becta waited a year to whinge about Office and Vista instead of doing what it’s there to do – lead?

Since Thursday, Jason and I have been working on a project to bring a little nature over to the St. Peter’s website. I got the call on Thursday asking me if I could source a camera to take in to the school. Apparently a nest had been found outside one of the classrooms, and the [...]

I’m always up for lazy tools. And as Jason has been asking me about podcasting, I thought I’d have a go over at my ‘tool’ website. A simple record with Audacity followed by a visit to the podcast RSS Feed generator and I was away within minutes. I joked with Jason that we should do [...]

I was running a system upgrade for Junior Librarian today, and came across a couple of computers that refused to run the update provided by MLS. After clicking the ‘Update’ button, you could receive the following dialog boxes: Update: here err=53 and Software Update: File not found: vb6stkit.dll (53) To resolve this to install the [...]

The webcam software didn’t want to start when I needed it! Bah!