Re: Freelance cooperatives (was: Recruitment Consultant Database)

2003-03-01 Thread Patrick Carmichael
u suggest; groups who had different agendas derived from work in education or international development. The mailing lists with the wranglings are archived; not sure what's happened to them recently or how productive they've been. Patrick Carmichael ---

n-a: FormMail replaced due to security flaws (fwd)

2002-04-09 Thread Patrick Carmichael
nms chalks up another conquest on the road to world domination. Patrick Carmichael Lecturer in IT Education School of Education University of Reading Reading RG6 1HY http://www.reading.ac.uk/~ems97pc -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:59:43 +0100 (GMT Daylight

Re: Bolloxia

2002-02-18 Thread Patrick Carmichael
r my phone extension (i.e. its the one I never have to ring, even though it's written on the phone which is in front of me for most of the day). Patrick Carmichael

Re: Low budget applications

2002-02-02 Thread Patrick Carmichael
* Perl. There's been an on-and-off debate about Perl in Education/Not-for-Profit organisations on the Advocacy list. Patrick Carmichael Lecturer in IT Education School of Education University of Reading Reading RG6 1HY http://www.reading.ac.uk/~ems97pc

Re: Publicity Stunts/Advocacy Suggestions?

2001-12-03 Thread Patrick Carmichael
If you're alluding to Reading FC's descent towards the Unibond League, then that doesn't actually apply to me ... Wimbledon fan, man and boy ... so .. oh yeah .. right .. OK, point taken. PC On Sun, 2 Dec 2001, Anthony Fisher wrote: > > Arrange a football contest with teams of > trained came

Publicity Stunts/Advocacy Suggestions?

2001-12-01 Thread Patrick Carmichael
what possible advocacy activities a.k.a. shameless publicity stunts might be worth a try? That don't involve my getting arrested? Any suggestions? Patrick Carmichael Lecturer in IT Education School of Education University of Reading Reading RG6 1HY http://www.reading.ac.uk/~ems97pc

Why Linux on Acorns ...

2001-11-21 Thread Patrick Carmichael
I know about Castle - and also about the continuing efforts of Acornies in schools to keep them going. I reckon Castle's main achievement is to have a decent web browser - 'Fresco' was a bit iffy and several schools around here ditched Acorns solely on the basis that they couldn't use them for W

Re: Your Advocacy ideas

2001-11-21 Thread Patrick Carmichael
ut is Phil Jones who runs the 'Linux for Schools Project' (http://www.lfsp.org) and has used Linux as the basis of a school network. Patrick Carmichael

Re: Beautiful Algorithms

2001-10-21 Thread Patrick Carmichael
XML parser which rebuilds any XML document as indented (i.e. 'unordered list') html (ho hum) and (more exciting) secret sharing algorithms for use in distributed data systems. Patrick Carmichael > However I do see beauty in one of the less efficient sort algorithms > (bubble sort

Re: The best film of all time?

2001-09-17 Thread Patrick Carmichael
1900 Heimat* The Third Man Brazil More recent, but maybe not classics Truman Show Pleasantville *Does this count? I know it's 14 hours long but you *can* see it all in one go sometimes. Patrick Carmichael

Re: rewarding tasks

2001-06-28 Thread Patrick Carmichael
'd like to know a bit more about my currently unsuccessful effort to lure someone with adequate programming and information architecture skills to work for a pitiful salary, then drop me a line - or if you know someone who might be interested? Email me back directly rather than replying to the list Regards Patrick Carmichael