Welcome to my website. I am currently running a code club at Paignton Library and Information Centre. I am also looking for employment that will hopefully make more use of my skills. I have made a few changes to this website layout. Posts now appear on the website below this home page. You can now…
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My current OU course is The Sun, this is a Level 1, 8 hour course. Course description quoted below. “The Sun dominates our lives by defining our day, but how much do you know and understand about it? This free course will help you to explore the workings of the brightest star in our…
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NFL 2018 WEEK 7 FIXTURES Please click here.
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NFL Week 6 results can be found here.
Continue readingHour of code 2018
This year the Hour of Code will be the biggest and best ever. There is so much I can’t wait to share, and it starts with a special video! Creativity is our theme for the Hour of Code this year. Hour of Code during CS Education Week, December 3 – 9th. Students worldwide…
Continue readingNew Changing Places facility now open in Paignton
I am sharing this to help spread the word on this new facility. New Changing Places facility now open in Paignton News Release PR7796 – published on 15 October 2018 Paignton sea front has now become one of the most accessible tourist places in the country following the opening of a Changing Places facility….
Continue readingSharelatex – LaTeX in the cloud.
I am starting to undertake more and more work using LaTeX as it has some really nice formatting features and allows me, in general to just get on with the content of a document, while still maintaining a professional looking layout for documents. I have recently found a website called Sharelatex which is now…
Continue readingLyX 2.3.1 released
LyX 2.3.1 released (note taken from website) Paul Sutton First Maintenance Release in 2.3.x Series: LyX 2.3.1 released. September 16, 2018 We are pleased to announce the release of LyX 2.3.1. This is the first maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. LyX 2.3.1 is the result of on-going efforts to make our stable version more…
Continue readingCode club week 4
Fourth Code club session is this Saturday 20/10/2018. Paignton Library.
Continue readinggedit – text editor
Following my recent Debian 9.5 install, I was looking for a nice text editor. It seems since I last saw this gedit has had a major overhaul. Well done to the development team. Lot of what look like nice features. I have set the colour scheme to dark. Some of the menu options are…
Continue readingFire damage
On Wednesday there was a big fire in Torbay Road. The fire apparently started near the chip shop and spread the flats above. A few photos taken today (Sunday) are below. Devonlive report gives more details.
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