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Welcome to 25 days of blogging
Regular readers of the Web Services blog may have noted that post frequency is a little biased towards me… well over the next 25 days, more of us will be blogging about a variety of topics in the run...
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Xmas Digital Art Wallpapers
We are very close to the Christmas holidays again and I thought it’s about time to decorate my desktop while counting down the days. I’ve been browsing the web to see what is available and I found some...
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Flickring candles
If you’re planning on taking a few snaps this Christmas with that new camera/phone, here’s a little bit of fun you can have with them… Flickr is probably the best known on line photo managment and...
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More calendars to watch
We’re not the only kid on the block this December so be sure to check out some of these other advent calendars: 24 Ways If web design is more your thing then you could do worse than following 24 ways...
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Rollerblading Grandad USA
Jeff Dornan – better known as the “rollerblading grandad” is well known on the streets of Ormskirk and Southport. He has a Facebook fan group and earlier this year hit the news when he was prosecuted...
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Green is the new White!
Liverpool city centre is to have the city’s Greenest most environmentally friendly Christmas tree ever to celebrate the city’s Year of the Environment. The project comes after the city has basked in...
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Sunday 13th – The Nightmare Before Xmas
A christmas version of the story of the three little pigs and the bad wolf. The Three Little Pigs are trying to escape the Big Bad Wolf on Christmas…with disastrous but hilarious results, they decide...
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Times a changin
Christmas has changed for me over the years, from the excited, little, fresh-faced kid with Subbuteo (and tube of UHU glue) to the worn-out parent, with the jaunty paper hat and half-empty glass of...
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Merry Christmas Everybody!
I started working at Edge Hill around the same time IT Services launched the GO portal and there was talk in the office the first Christmas about how many people would be logging in on Christmas day....
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Chill out at Edge Hill
Yesterday I drove to work. I made it in, just. This is the photo I took of St Helens road on the way in (I took it on the timer, honest). St Helens Road It was a blizzard by the time I walked from the...
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Google Street View
I was right – it took almost three years to arrive in Ormskirk, but this week Google launched Street View across most of the country including Ormskirk. Argleton might have been wiped off the main...
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Argleton Revisited
So this is how I spent my Friday off work: Radio 4 at 10:30am, Saturday 18th September 2010.
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He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone
At IWMW last week I ran a BarCamp session titled “Slate My Website… and Your Website?”. As I explained on the IWMW blog, the format of the session is based on Nick DeNardis’ EDU Checkup and consists of...
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Can you tell me how to find Topshop?
A couple of weeks ago my Twitter Search alerts for “Ormskirk” picked up the following: I was intrigued so searched Google Maps for “topshop near ormskirk” and sure enough, not one but two mystery...
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Return to Argleton
A few months ago I got a very curious phone call from Lawrence Grizzel, a producer for Punt PI on Radio 4. He was interested in doing an episode of the Steve Punt show about Argleton, the town that...
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QR Treasure Hunt
Yesterday, Learning Services launched their Code Breaker Challenge – aimed at getting new (and returning) students to find their way around the facilities and try out a bit of new technology along the...
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This weekend I was down in Bath for the third weekend BathCamp. One session was about RFID and ended with a performance of Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” using a bunch of RFID tags....
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Street View trike on campus
Back in March, Google added Ormskirk – and most of the rest of the country – to Google Street View. Today we were visited by the Google Street View trike to take imagery of the Ormskirk campus. Unlike...
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Lego Printer
While the problems we’ve been experiencing with printers over the last couple of days are no laughing matter, this Lego® printer is quite cool: I know this is so before-the-summer but I thought it was...
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No more kissing under the mistletoe!!
I have heard this warning before in the last few years from conservationists but it appears now to be a more serious issue; the future supply of traditional English mistletoe is under threat. Why I...
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Dreaming of a White Christmas
I wonder how many of you this year have visited a bookmakers and put on a bet for a ‘White Christmas’, not many I would imagine or maybe I’m completely wrong, one thing I do know however is as its more...
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How do I know if it’s Christmas?
Its Christmas eve. Are you excited? In less than 24 hours Santa will have been, scoffed his mince pie and glass of port and gone on his merry way. So just how long do we have to wait for Christmas? If...
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Web Services Go Greener
You may have noticed fuel prices going up. You may also know that Web Services are now located in the Durning Centre and that the building has received an award for its power saving features. Ever...
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Argleton goes national!
It seems Argleton just won’t die! Late to the game behind the Ormskirk Advertiser, Mister Roy’s visit and my post about the village some 13 months ago, the Daily Telegraph yesterday revealed the...
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Continuing my very occasional series of videos from unusual lectures, here’s a clip from a Math(s) class at Biola University: Via The University Blog.
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