Monthly Archives: July 2015

Code making and breaking activities in Scratch – part 1

Posted on July 29, 2015 by blogmywiki

When I was a kid I loved making codes and still vividly remember my brother teaching me about simple substitution cyphers; I’d write messages and he’d then try to break them by looking for patterns and common letters like E … Continue reading →

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Another music in a different kitchen

Posted on July 25, 2015 by blogmywiki

I’ve long wanted some sort of solution for centrally storing and serving music for listening around the house. There are all sorts of commercial products (like Sonos) out there, some eye-wateringly expensive even without any storage, plus numerous open-source projects, … Continue reading →

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Fip has moved

Posted on July 20, 2015 by blogmywiki

As you may know, I love making little internet radios from Raspberry Pi computers – mostly so I can listen to the wonderful French radio station Fip. Fip plays a mixture of jazz, left-field rock and pop, classical music – … Continue reading →

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Accept no substitutes

Posted on July 16, 2015 by blogmywiki

It’s the end of term in most schools today, and I’d like you to take a moment to think about the supply teachers. (Vested interest declaration: reader, I am one.) Nobody loves a supply teacher. The class teachers (usually) have … Continue reading →

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How to get Word to paste unformatted text by default

Posted on July 12, 2015 by blogmywiki

This is something that drives me mad. Why (oh why) do word processors (Word, Open Office) paste formatted text by default? Almost always what you want to do is to paste unformatted text, so that it matches the font of … Continue reading →

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