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And has been since Friday afternoon, I’ve just been too busy to blog.

I have found a wonderful site by a Microsoft employee though, Raymond Chen’s ‘The Old New Thing’ at http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/. It’s chock a block filled with little stories about why Windows works (or doesn’t) the way it does.

The really scary thing is that I don’t think it’s a spoof.

Have a listen to the 10 demos on the site

I think I’d vomit if I heard this kind of thing on the radio here.

If I remind you of the last entry…

“I’ve also been roped in to present a Power Point thingy about rebuilding Harlesden”

Well, I made it, and half-presented it, and then we won! Woo hoo! £500… for the school. Oh.

Yesterday was the second Tuesday of the month – and that means Windows Update day, and some Office ones. I also started detecting another wireless network – open and unencrypted – from my bedroom. Interesting… [thinks evil thoughts, but not really]

For those waiting for Part 3 of the great OfSTED story, they said we were one of “the most inclusive schools the inspection team had ever seen.” So there!

I stayed up to 3am on Friday night… working on a database for IT GCSE. Yeah, Access is hard work, though I’m actually fairly happy about it now. Relational databases, who would have guessed they could be so much fun?

I’ve also been roped in to present a Power Point thingy about rebuilding Harlesden, god knows how I got into that one, especially as I seem incapable of even *spelling* Harlesden correctly! (Yes, it’s right here, I checked.) Apparently, the conclusion ‘we’ came to was to simply demolish the whole area and start again from scratch. Not quite sure how the residents would feel, but there you go…