Here You have :

• The programmeProgramme Study Visit Tomelloso 2010
• Material and info required Material Needed and Participants info

Tutorials as per following list. If you work in the workshop or elsewhere in school and want Ricardo to come by there, please let him know (in advance). Please note that afternoon tutorials have been moved up by half’n hour, hope that is ok.

10.00  Yoo Jin

10.30   Song Jie

11.00   Charlotte

11.30   Basmah

12.00  Elina

12.30  Nik (not sure if this was your slot?)

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2.00   Ananth (not sure if this was your slot?)

2.30  Ingrid

3.00   Manon

3.30   Mazin

4.00   Maria

4.30   Ariadna (not sure if this was your slot?)

5.00   Conner

   The panto programme was finally finished tonight. I dropped it off at the hall at around 08:30pm after typing in the huge cast list. It would appear that there are over 40 characters in this production. A number of the cast have more than one part, but even so. I was quite pleased with job, and I just hope everyone else is as pleased with it.

   The facebook issue took another turn today. I added an ex-work colleague, who immediately sent me a suggestion to add the very person who is the cause of my dilemma. I am now of the opinion, that I must add this person, and then in a week or so amend my settings so that they do not show on my profile. Then maybe, in a month or two, I’ll then ‘un-friend’ them. Is that not the most bizarre phrase …… ‘un-friend’ …… what on earth does it mean ????? Anyway it is now done. Hopefully I’ve done the right thing. Only time will tell.

   This could be the last rehearsal tonight. Then again tomorrow could be the last !! They don’t usually have a rehearsal on the Tuesday. It’s kind of tradition that they have a rest and an early night, as it the last one they’ll get for 4 or 5 nights. It’s now 10:40pm, and there is no sign of the eldest. I can see it being nearer midnight … no wait a minute, that’s him now. It would appear that there is no rehearsal tomorrow after all. I have the programme details …… what I thought was going to be an A4, 4 page, single fold booklet, now looks to be turning into an 8 page booklet !!!! Bit of a challenge, but at least I get my name on the credits.

   Now, how to be diplomatic with facebook. Someone I work with, has added me as a friend. Unfortunately, I am not too keen on adding this person. so how do I diplomatically ignore their request, without causing offense. I don’t want this person commenting on everything I say/do on facebook (have already fallen into that trap once). I have been told to add them, and then, after a week or two opt to hide them. Mind you, whatever I do could be a potential disaster.

We will be having group tutorials and discussions in the form of all-working-together sessions. Please bring everything you need to work on your projects as well as your latest drawings, models, videos etc. We will go around and ‘visit’ you while working to give advice. The time could also be used to ask us about any software or ‘how to’ questions, so please be prepared.

See you all tomorrow at 10am in the unit space.

   Eldest is back from rehearsals. Quite a bit earlier than I expected. But guess what !!!! No programme details !!! I’ve asked to go and see them tomorrow, to get the details. If I don’t have them for tomorrow evening, then I do not think it will get done in time. There will be a lot of typing and error checking, especially the children’s name. Parents do get worked up if their offspring do not get a proper mention. I have the design done, and I suppose I could get the scene/act list from the script, but I want to get it right. I’m beginning to get a reputation for this.

   Youngest has just gone to his bed. He dropped off to sleep at around 05:30pm, but that was too early. He had not had his tea, and if he had gone to bed then, then I could see him being awake very early again.

   Right …… need to sleep!

I often get asked when should you start thinking about capturing risks?

For me I always believe that risks should be captured from the outset of a project, so a good time for capturing joint risks is during the kick off to the project. However, this does not mean that you should not capture risks beforehand, if you are aware of them.

Remember this is my view and there is no hard and fast rule as to when you begin to capture risks, however this is the technique I use, since it is early in the project.

Don’t forget, any risks identified should be assessed for impact to the schedule and built in, if they are deemed to have an impact from a time perspective.

Risks should then be managed throughout the project on a weekly basis and categorised in terms of impact.

C’est un billet rapide pour dire que le programme des TechDays 2010 vient d’être publié et cette année il y a beaucoup de modules sur les produits 2010 de Microsoft.

Le programme est sur cette page.

Hab mal wieder etwas daran gearbeitet. Der Film wurde jetzt nicht über eine “screen-capturing” software aufgenommen sondern entstand duch Speichern jedes Bildes wärend der Berechnung.

Im Video sind erstmals 54000 Partikel simuliert! (mein persönlicher Rekord )

PhotoSpeak

Wer  schon immer die Bilder seiner Freunde animiert haben möchte findet in PhotoSpeak ein ideales App dafür. Das Programm erkennt automatisch das Gesicht und animiert es entsprechend. Mit einer Audioaufnahme ausgestattet bewegen sich die Lippen des Bildes entsprechend. Ein wirklich interessantes App das man sich nicht entgehen lassen sollte. [AppStoreLink]

Blower

Das kleine App produziert durch einen gewissen Ton Schallwellen, welche einen Luftstrom bilden. Hierzu ist ein lauter Lautsprecher von Vorteil, weswegen bessere Ergebnisse mit dem iPhone 3GS erzielt werden. iPod Touch-User müssen leider darauf verzichten. Das in der Beschreibung vorgestellte Ausblasen der Kerzen funktionierte in unserem Test nicht sofort, aber der Luftstrom war deutlich erkenn- und spürbar. Das Programm ist weniger durch seine Funktionalität bemerkenswert als vielmehr für die Kreativität und Möglichkeiten, welche die Entwickler hier zeigten. [Link zum AppStore]

Ice Age – Dawn Of The Dinosaurs

iPhone-Spiele für Kinder sind nicht besonders zahlreich. Klar gibt es Renn- und Zeitmangementspiele aber diese sind nicht extra für Kinder aufbereitet. Hier tritt das Spiel Ice Age zum gleichnamigen Kinofilm wohltuend hervor. Das kleine Vorzeiteichhörnchen Scrat ist sowieso der heimliche Star der Filme und kann nun hier gesteuert werden. Spiel, Spaß und unterhaltsame Stunden. [Link zum AppStore]

]]> http://tonyhuby.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/the-weekend-at-last/ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 23:14:25 +0000 Tony http://tonyhuby.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/the-weekend-at-last/

   A lot was achieved at work today. It’s getting close to the month end, so there a lot of reporting to do. And, as it is getting close to the end of the year, my stats spreadsheet needs updating for next year. Fingers crossed I have got it right. I really should document the damn thing, but I just never remember. It has grown from a single sheet of weekly numbers, to a 8 sheet workbook. I’m quite proud of it really. No one else has a clue how it works, they are just grateful it does. If I sat down and took it to pieces, I’m sure I could make it a lot easier. Some of the formulae I think could be simplified, and I’m sure I could tidy up the look-up tables, but at the end of the day, it works !

   I started work on the panto programme tonight. Hardest thing was getting the picture in black and white. For some reason my copy of Photoshop Elements 2 is playing up. I have a strong suspicion, that the twain drivers have corrupted, as a few times tonight, the thing has hung up when initialising. I think I may have to reinstall it at some point.

In my experience whilst working on various high level projects and programme, across a variety of different industries and specialised areas, there are a number of areas which can affect the success or failure of a project / programme.

1. Scope Statement or Project Initiation Document (PID) are not baselined and agreed by all the required stakeholders, including the project board and project sponsor.   It is crucial that for any project to be successful that the requirements in terms of what should be delivered at the completion of a project are defined.  After all, a project is set up to meet a specific goal within a given period of time.  I would also suggest that the project be broken down in to stages and after the completion of each stage the scope statement / PID be reviewed by all stakeholders including the project board and project sponsor to determine that this still provides the required project outcome.  If changes are highlighted as part of this stage review then the project change management process should be followed to understand the impact across the team and to determine whether this has an impact on the budget and schedule.
2. Communication is key to the successful running of any project.  You should determine who are your stakeholders, including customers, suppliers and colleagues.  Interactions between these various stakeholders should be understood and a communications plan should be put in place, which documents these relationships and what responsibilities each of these stakeholders has to the successful completion of the project / programme.  You should involve members from the business as soon as possible in giving early visibility of the software solution being implemented, as well as running regular update forums or roadshows, to ensure that everyone across the business is aware of the project / programme and is aware and understands the impact.  This ensures that they feel involved in the success of the project / programme and also stops the “chinese whispers” spiralling out of control and causing resistance to the change.

salut les jeunes,

rendez-vous vendredi à 20H15 à la chapelle afin de descendre sur Moutier pour notre intergroupe !!! voilà, c’est tout !!!

für alle übervorsichtigen gibt´s hier die info www.kaspersky.com

Individual tutorials in the following order:

10.00   Ingrid

10.30   Yoo Jin

11.00   SJ

11.30   Charlotte

12.00   Mazin

12.30   Manon

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2.00   Elina

2.30   Ananth

3.00   Basmah

3.30   Conner

4.00   Nikolaos

4.30   Maria

5.00   Ariadna

3040709    การประเมินโครงการและการประเมินผู้เรียน    Programme Evaluation and Students Assessment

การประเมินผลลักษณะและรูปแบบของการประเมินผล กลวิธีการรวบรวมข้อมูลและวิเคราะห์ข้อมูล พิจารณาแนวทางในการตัดสินเกี่ยวกับคุณภาพของการประเมินผล ตลอดจนการรายงานผลการประเมิน

(Structure and strategy of evaluation; types and models of evaluation; strategies for collecting and analyzing evaluative information; avenues for judging the quality of evaluation; considerations involved in reporting evaluation results.)

(3040709 จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย)

shoeboxes for Blythswood

The after effects of filling shoeboxes – wearing the leftover wrapping paper – all good fun!

Wasn’t the Gang Show great? I hope you enjoyed it too. I do hope to see loads of you at our County Carol Service and The Macmillan Concert in Duns – see ‘Dates for Your Diary. Sorry the blog has been a bit quiet of late – our lives are just so busy!  As you can see I’m playing with poll buttons so do please vote!

I’ve been taking a look at the Girlguiding UK website including the Senior Section pages. Read about the Driving Standards Agency(DSA) Arrive Alive programme, check out the Guiding Guides to…. section (all about managing your money, street safety to name a couple), about using your Guiding on your CV, Look Wider and other resources

There’s a new resource called ‘Me in Mind’ – it’s just launched and I have a copy! Me in Mind is all about dreams and goals, healthy living, relationships, help and support, and most importantly, having a laugh!  It’s a vibrant resource with loads of activities to get everyone thinking about mental health in a new, positive way, whether in a group or on your own. It has been approved by Changing the World partner, the Mental Health Foundation and there is an accompanying badge, which can be worn in both sections.  Maybe we can have a go at it next term

And what about our ‘Mountain-Top Moment?  What shall we do?  Do you have any ideas?  We’ll be planning when we get back in January, probably the 13th,  so do have a think.

A few YLs have been asking me if we have any plans to run the ‘Young Leader in the Unit Team’ event again as they weren’t able to come.  If we were able to run it again sometime would you be interested in coming along?

Vote now!

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Over the past few days I haven’t had much luck with certain bits of technology that I rely on rather heavily.  For reasons that may become clear my eyes currently feel as if they have the texture of sandpaper meaning this may be a short post indeed.  We’ll see.

It all started on Saturday when my mobile phone received a good soaking after I’d been out in the torrential rain.  It switched itself off and stayed that way.  Having experienced this problem before, however, I was not worried.  I removed the phone’s battery and SIM card, placed them in a warm place and, along with the phone, gave them some time to dry out.  My attempts at telephonic dessication seemed to have worked as by Sunday the phone could be switched off and on again.  Rather than allowing me to make calls or send texts, however, all that the phone would do while switched on was display the demand “Insert SIM.”  I had inserted the SIM and I have to say that I found my cheap, dated mobile’s lack of courtesy offensive and infuriating.

If you’re thinking something along the lines of “this doesn’t sound like such a big deal,” you’re probably right.  The prospect of having to go through the hassle of getting a new SIM and a new number or having the old number transferred was just frustrating me.  My previous phone and card inexplicably self-destructed back in July and despite diligent backups to various devices and numerous e-mails I’m still having occassional trouble getting in touch with people and people continue, or so they tell me, to phone the old number.  Also, because I have a pay-as-you-go phone (I don’t need and can’t really justify the expense of a contract phone as well as having been burned savagely by my last contract) it’s not that straight forward to get a new SIM and transfer my old number.  I don’t get paid until tomorrow so I was putting off making any calls or ordering a new card.

About an hour ago I decided to have one last go at reassembling my phone and, much to my surprise, it now works absolutely fine.  I’m not sure how or why it happened.  Perhaps it has something to do with the threats of graphic violence I’ve been muttering shouting at my laptop since about 5pm yesterday evening as I attempted to bring an end to the worst act of rebellion any one of my machines has ever subjected me to.  I’ve had to devote just over 16 of my last 18 waking hours to this and for most of today I thought I was fighting a losing battle.  I even got out of bed at 1am this morning to spend two bleary-eyed and fizzy-headed hours pushing buttons and cursing softly while listening to the soothing strains of a snoring spaniel.  “So,” you might interject “what precisely was the problem?”

Somehow my computer was infected with a Trojan Horse that pretends to be an anti-viral programme, flashes all sorts of false warnings up about non-existent infections and constantly directs the user to a website purporting to sell the updates necessary to fix this problem.  The longer you try to ignore these messages the more frequent and numerous they become.  It stops you from opening any other files of any type on your computer and renders any anti-virus or anti-spyware software already present about as much use as tits  on a boar.  As if that’s not enough if you continue to refuse to provide whoever is behind this programme with credit card details it then begins to open up windows displaying websites offering viagra and other prescription drugs.  Then it starts to get really nasty by directing you to pornography and bombarding you with so many warnings, adverts and promises of unspeakable filth that you can’t even check your e-mail.  I’d name this particular Trojan code but, like some characters in a book I once read who were afraid to pronounce the name of an evil wizard, I fear that doing so will somehow allow its wrath to be revisited upon me.

My encounter with this virus was frustrating and frightening for a few main reasons.  First, I am incredibly careful about what you might consider my computer’s hygiene.  I keep all my malware and firewall protection updated, conduct frequent scans and I am scrupulous about what I will view or download via the internet as well as my inbox.  I’m pretty sure I worked out where I picked this infection up, but I can’t prove it.  I won’t be visiting that site again.  Second, I need my computer on a daily basis to do my job.  I don’t have an office at the university where I teach and I live over an hour away.  Lesson plans and notes can be made with pen and paper.  When I read I use a physical text about 75% of the time.  Those aspects of my job wouldn’t be affected disastrously if my laptop suddenly turned into a piece of junk.  That being said, I tend to get between 20 and 30 e-mail a day that need some sort of response.  I often need to send files to people, or download files they’ve sent to me.  Electronic journals from the library play a big part in what I do as does the expediency of being able to search through the catalogue before visiting the place.  With a computer that wouldn’t allow me to open my own files, check my e-mail, download files or safely send them to others my days would grind to a halt.  That prospect was freaking me out.

On top of these two legitimate reasons for anger over my computing present and despair regarding my computing future I also noticed a third aspect of the the situation that was bothering me.  This Trojan Horse virus I’d picked up was, in terms of its presentation, dumb and unspectacular.  From what I gather plenty of people have been taken in by this scam, but when I started to get warnings from an anti-virus suite I knew I’d never downloaded I new something was up.  This led me to discover that my actual software had been disabled and allowed me to start addressing the problem before it reached its worst thereby saving myself some time in the end.  The fact that this piece of malicious programming was so blatant in its arrival but so powerful once on my machine really pissed me off.

What pissed me off even more was its complete lack of what I’d call the Hollywood factor.  Given the amount of time I spend on my computer and the things I do with it it’s probably surprising I’d gone as long as I did without getting a serious virus.  Part of me always knew it was very likely that yesterday was inevitable.  Without realising it I’d always imagined that if and when my computer was infected I’d wind up with some sort of stunning visual confirmation of the fact as the hacker or hackers behind the virus taunted me with their power and presence.  So throughout my cursing at my computer for the better part of the last 24 hours I kept expecting to see a skull and crossbones like the one that accompanies Jeff Goldblum’s viral hack of the extraterrestrials’ computer system in Independence Day.  Instead I kept getting poorly spelled warnings about non-existent threats, offers of viagra and pornographic pictures that, while offensive, weren’t threatening.

Don’t misunderstand me.  I’m glad that I was able to recognise and solve this problem.  I’m happy that I’m not going to have to come up with a way of replacing my laptop.  I just think it might have been a bit more fun had there been some sort of coded apparition that I could have banished with a final keystroke as I quelled the destructive rebellion that almost rendered my computer entirely useless.  Then I could have felt more like some sort of conquering warlord of the technological realm.  Instead I feel like an anal retentive button pusher. . .

. . . I’m also worried that a new washer-dryer will be delivered to my house tomorrow.  It will be too big for me to beat into submission.

Voici le programme de littérature pour la série littéraire en classe de terminale, celui-ci peut se résumer en 4 grands domaines, 4 œuvres et 1 film.

Domaine 1 : Grands modèles littéraires – Modèles antiques

• Œuvre à étudier : L’Odyssée d’Homère (Chants V à XIII), traduction Philippe Jaccottet, édition FM/La Découverte.

Domaine 2 : Langage verbal et images – Littérature et cinéma

• Œuvre à étudier: Les Liaisons dangereuses de Choderlos de Laclos (toute édition de poche).
• Film à étudier: Les Liaisons dangereuses de Stephen Frears (version de 1988).

Domaine 3 : Littérature et débats d’idées – Grandeur et misère de l’homme

• Œuvre à étudier: Pensées de Blaise Pascal. Liasses II (Vanité), III (Misère), IV (Ennui), V (Raisons des effets), VI (Grandeur), VII (Contrariétés), VIII (Divertissement) ; fragments 11 à 129, pages 70 à 124. Édition de Michel Le Guern, coll. Folio (n^o 4054), édition Gallimard.

Domaine 4 : Littérature contemporaine – Œuvres contemporaines françaises ou de langue française

• Œuvre à étudier : Fin de partie de Samuel Beckett.