Jul

4

Victory at last

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One of the perils of teaching is having to endure the odd day of INSET (a fine example of trying to force an acronym when it’s not needed: ‘training day’ would be so much more self-explanatory) where members of staff demonstrate some of their weaknesses as teachers in front of the entire teaching body of [...]

Jul

2

New high score

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Steve may not be doing quite so well as me at Excite Truck but I’m guessing his high score on Galaga is somewhat greater than my 55510. He did, after all, spend much of the 1980s playing its BBC Micro equivalent. In other news, I had a premature attempt at an online game of Mario [...]