Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Well, MS can’t be all bad, can it?
clipped from newsinfo.inquirer.net
The laboratory is using Microsoft Vista, but Dunleavy promised the school that when he visits the village again next year, he would bring along a Microsoft Version 7
What was then a small school in a depressed village began to change
He gave us fund for school [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Monday, 29 September 2008
DUDE.
clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk
Pictured: The punk rock turtle with a bright green mohawk
Shell shocked: The Mary River Turtle is having a Green Day, but his hairdo is just algae growing on his head
The Mary River Turtle has become a popular figure with Australian environmentalists who say the endangered creature is being further threatened by Queensland State [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 24 September 2008
These look almost as cool as the Star Wars ones.
clipped from studenthacks.org
Posted by: Kat on: Monday, 22 September 2008
This is officially the first Tala Ko blog post written on my netbook. :)
While I’m not wireless at the moment, I did manage to compile drivers for the wireless card using this guide. I was a little apprehensive at first, because I don’t often use the command line. I was afraid that I was going [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Saturday, 20 September 2008
Pardon the corny title. :) Yesterday, I was able to buy an MSI Wind U100 with some money from a savings account that my dad started when I was smaller (thanks, Dad). I needed to be more mobile, and he agreed that a laptop would be a good investment.
I’ve named it Teacup, after the ones [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 18 September 2008
“In Uruguay the parents wait for the kids to go to bed so they can use the laptops. So you saw people move to rural communities… so their kids could take advantage of [the laptops]. In Rwanda the families brought electricity to the schools so that the kids could keep using the laptops.”
I find that [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 10 September 2008
So, society – specifically, a perceived lack of support from parents and teachers – is to blame. That doesn’t surprise me, but the study and its results do add fuel to the fire.
clipped from www.sciencedaily.com
New research by a team that includes vocational psychologists at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) indicates that the self-confidence instilled by [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Monday, 8 September 2008
… not that we didn’t know that already. But it’s nice to have scientific proof.
clipped from news.bbc.co.uk
Musical tastes and personality type are closely related, according to a study of more than 36,000 people from around the world.
“One of the most surprising things is the similarities between fans of classical music and heavy metal. They’re [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 3 September 2008
I’m writing this post from Google Chrome. Can I just say how happy I am, that although it probably resembles Vista more, the title/tab bar reminds me of Ubuntu? *sniff*
I first read about Chrome this morning, when a co-worker brought it up. I had a lot of fun reading the comic (learned a lot, too), [...]
