English Over The Sleeve

I have finally got round to thinking of all those poor people who use wide screens to read my blog. You see, those people see a really messed up title bar. The poor guys.
In other news, I’ve just bought myself a 19″ wide TFT…

Anyway, a perfect opportunity to try out my latest plugin :

This is not a serious poll; you can stuff as much as you like (please do - it will make me feel good ), so don’t base any serious (or otherwise) market research on these results…

Is it OK for them to go out alone without warning those in charge? Should there be anybody in charge anyway?

How mature is a 13 y.o.? How about a 17 y.o.? Is it reasonable to lump them together, as ‘teenagers’?

Why does the relationship between a teen and an adult so often go wrong? What is it about authority figures?

Answers on a postcard.

(this post inspired by apophenia, and by a /. discussion a bit like this one (i.e., I can’t find the link I wanted, but this came up in the search…))

That’s what I’ve been. Remiss.

Let’s have some news.

• I have updated Wordpress to the latest version - at last.
• The preparations for camp are going well; as it’s a geek camp, we’ve created a wiki where the youngsters can participate and sumbit ideas as to what they want to do. I don’t know how many people have visited the wiki since we opened it - but the stats from the host that has the wiki (and a few other things) have gone through the roof, comparatively.
• The parent’s PC now has a Beta version of Kubuntu Edgy, with no Windows at all. This is rather pleasing to me, as I was getting rather fed up of having to support Windows, about which I know less and less.
• About that PC - why the hell can’t I get the spdif port to work? No spdif = no DTS, of course, so it’s a right royal pain…
• I tried to upgrade my own PC to Edgy. The upgrade wasn’t successful. So I’ll wait until the stable version is released (on the 24th, I think).
• On my camps, we take lots of photos, and upload them to a webserver every day, so that the parents can look at them. Obviously, that means that someone has to sit down and get them to a reasonable size for web viewing. That person has been replaced, as the T-shirt would have it, by a very small shell script : jpgshrink
• I’m stll looking for someone to employ, I think. So if you have experience of French summer camps, and if you’re a bit of a geek, then drop me a cv macdo10{at}free.fr.

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Anybody going to www.writely.com from today will be directed to the new ‘Documents and Spreadsheets’ Google page.