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Stolen Van Gogh & News Source Accuracy

I was reading about the stolen Van Gogh painting yesterday on BBC News website and some other sites and noticed inaccuracies in some articles.

Yes, School IT Lessons Were Dull

The BBC reported yesterday on the Royal Society's forthcoming report of IT education in UK schools which comes to the conclusion that IT lessons are dull. This dullness is putting children off of computing careers.

Experimental cooking, work plan and things I didn't know.

I wasn't sure what to have for dinner earlier. I had some chicken to cook, some left-over Sharwood's tikka masala sauce and some mushrooms. I decided to experiment and try making those ingredients into a burger. A chicken & mushroom tikka masala burger. It was yummy.

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Factorial Number System & Permutations

The other day, while working on my survey of register allocation based software watermarking techniques, I learnt something new about numbers: the factorial number system.

Baking Brownies & Conference Paper

Today I baked some brownies; I cheated slightly by using a pre-made brownie mix. Betty Crocker's Chocolate Fudge Brownie Mix only needs to be mixed with 45ml of water and baked for 25 minutes in the included cardboard tray. Simple. I divided it into 6 small brownies and they're yummy. It cost £1.12 in Sainsbury's.

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Meatball curry

Today I made meatball curry. I thought it was yummy. I used a recipe from About.com.

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Wrestling with Drupal Breadcrumbs

Since I first installed Drupal I've had issues with the menu system and breadcrumb trails. Out of the box they don't do what I'd expect them to do.

For those who don't know what a breadcrumb trail is: look above this post - it's the links that show you the path from the home page to the current page (it should say "Home > Blog > Wrestling with Drupal Breadcrumbs"). They allow you to move back to the parent pages of the current page easily.

Pictures, site problems, reading

I couldn't access my website this morning and I was planning to add more content and forward pages from my old site (using 301 permanent redirects). It turned out that t35 hosting's MySQL was down - meaning that everyone's websites, including t35.com, were unable to access MySQL databases.

My First Blog Post

This is my first blog post on my new blog, which is part of my new website. I'm migrating my old site (whoyouknow.co.uk) to this site as the domain makes more sense for personal stuff about me.

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