A graduation ceremony at the National Hockey Stadium on Thursday 27th May marked the end of citischool's third year. Started by Tom Bulman, the scheme “where young people are citizens and citizens are teachers” engages students in a range of action learning experiences in work places and citizenship activities across Milton Keynes, for 15-16 year…
A major new feature has now been added to ROSTRA, the premiere news dissemination agent. Each ROSTRA, or cluster thereof, can have a library of commonly-used media (still images or QuickTime movies) that authors can use in their stories, if they either don't have suitable images to upload with their material, are unable to upload…
Trustees of the OU Foundation today visited KMi to learn of the research projects that are gaining income and prestige for the University as a whole. The visitors included Lord Alf Dubs, Martin Hall and Joan Armatrading, together with existing Trustees Michael Woodall, Brian Wolfe, Penelope Hughes-Hallett and Dr John Drysdale. Projects were demonstrated by…
Currently the only external (outside the OU) use of ROSTRA, UK ice hockey eZine The Puck Stops Here has reached a milestone of one hundred thousand story hits. Edited by KMi's Chris Valentine, the website has been running since mid-July 2003. TPSH was launched as a replacement to an earlier, hand-crafted eZine called Benchwarmer but…
An update on the Eolas/Microsoft patent situation that could require significant changes to the way plugins are used in web pages. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has invalidated a claim to Web browser technology central to a case against Microsoft, a move that could spare the software giant from paying more than half a…
The Hon Richard Godber, High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, today visited KMi. The Sheriff is Her Majesty The Queen's representative in the County and the office dates back over a thousand years. The system of appointing Sheriffs reflects the antiquity of the office. It is the responsibility of each High Sheriff to provide the names of…
CitiTag, a wireless location-based multiplayer game designed to explore spontaneous social interaction and novel experiences in city environments, was due to undergo multiplayer, real-life testing today. Alas some technical problems meant that only four out ten iPaqs could contribute to the first trial! The hardware consists of a GPS receiver, to provide positional information, connected…
This article is a must-read for all web designers who use any kind of active content (Flash, QuickTime etc) on their sites. Bruce Lawson investigates the changes that you'll need to make as suggested by Microsoft, Macromedia, Real Networks and Apple if you plan to continue delivering seamless Flash or other plug-in content to the…
Just found this website paying tribute to the computers of yesteryear. Related Links: Obsolete Computers Museum
US Democrat Presidential hopeful Wes Clark has embraced the Internet and is heavily into blogging. Many of his policy documents are available as PDFs, his entire website is also available in Spanish and there are a number of blogs. A volunteer TechCorps runs the site for him providing “a framework for involving open source software…
