Sunday 20 October 2013

Really??

Someone used the 'don't enrage me, engage me' article on Friday to try and explain why learning technologies are causing our children's learning problems. I was so cross, how can this be intelligently put forward when you consider the how and why you use something?. Don't blame the hardware, blame the headware.

Saturday 19 October 2013

Funny How We Do It Cause We Have No Choice

Microsoft’s founder has officially admitted that the puzzling Control-Alt-Delete key combination used to access the login screen was a mistake. In his speech at Harvard University, Bill Gates revealed that it was a mistake. This process was supposed to be performed with a single button.



Gates pointed out that this wasn’t entirely Microsoft’s fault. The matter was that the designer of the IBM keyboard refused to provide the software giant with a single button.

At the moment, Windows XP and Windows 7 still use this combination, while Windows 8 uses it as a shortcut for locking the computer or accessing the task manager.

Thursday 17 October 2013