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Archive for November, 2005

A city is not a tree :: Christopher Alexander was a visionary architect and philosopher. This Web page summarises one of his better known books. Much used by computer scientists. ::

Cold Europe? :: Current mapping and arithmetic lead to predictions of colder climate ::

Measuring bloodstains with Photoshop :: PhotoShop or similar image editor provides a way of measuring a scanned image accurately, but you need Pythagoras... ::

Why we have timetables… :: Multitasking doesn't work very well ::

Digital divide: Southern Africa :: Some projects in Southern Africa aim to reduce the impact of the digital divide ::

The Life of Galileo: Brecht play in Birmingham :: David Edgar re-translates and prunes the German theatre classic: Music and a stark stage, more space for the theologians ::

AlphaSmart 3000 arrives :: Minimal instant on keyboard usable on trains and allows capture of text in meetings and in odd corners of time. ::

Number questions :: 50 questions at level 1 and 2 on Number ::

Course planning: Tinderbox :: Tinderbox - soon for Windows - is worth the money, deep software ::

Writing for the Web: Paul Ford :: Use a spreadsheet to write each idea in a cell with a heading.... ::

Christ Church, Oxford :: This tomb shows a very scary painted figure and an old style horroscope. The place must have looked totally different when the walls were polychrome murals and lit entirely by candles…. ::

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