Blog from the Loft

This is a first of a long series of post, documenting my “experiment” of introducing and using Scratch with two young kids, G, a four year old boy and M a three year old girl.
First introduction
Taking in all I have learnt from other educators, I first introduce the Scratch environment simply by showing them the [...]

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So the web is buzzing with the “product transition” comments during the financial result calls. Cheaper iPod? Cheaper MacBook? What if it is nothing to do with hardware, but their new unlimited subscription based iTune music, or better still, video service?

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This has been a very Apple centric month. I finally upgraded my very first mac, a pre-Aluminium iMac from Tiger to Leopard. The upgrade process was very easy. The next morning, I discovered that my new iPhone is no longer recognized by iTunes ! It worked before the upgrade.
The problem only exists with iTunes. When [...]

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My iPhone just crashed. I clicked on the iTunes Remote app, the phone went to the “silver apple” screen, which I think is the restart screen. It stayed there for a very long time. I ended up doing the reset sequence — holding down the sleep/wake and the home buttons for 10 seconds or more, [...]

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Day 5 using the new iPhone. I love it. I thought about it before using the verb “love”. It is fun to use. it works. It’s sexy. I find myself using it instead of the laptop (which is already on) to check emails, for example. It works and feel better than the Treo. Typing is [...]

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Yes. I got one. Spent total of six and a half hours. Worth it? Yes. Weather was nice, a little hot but not too much. Apple staff were very nice. Especially Alex — She worked the line. Gave out (free) water, candy, went to get sunblock and more candy, even picked up a pizza for [...]

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I wrote a post earlier about PyTextile not working well in Django. James Bennet was nice enough to add some pointers to the issue. (Comments are working now on my Blog). Now that I am using textile more, I want to investigate and document the issue better.
Most importantly, the problem exists only with the0.96x version [...]

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