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The glass ceiling again…..

I am helping out a friend of mine who asked for advice and I asked if it is ok to put it out in the blogosphere and see what advice it can comes up with….
Hi folks, sorry to bother you but I am helping out a deaf colleague of mine whose first language is [...]

[ More ] April 11th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted in Deaf |

Fill yer boots!

Came across this advert on disabledworkers.org.uk…
What are they doing?
Role reversal of the famous scene with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore from the film “Ghost” but the guy is having a hard time trying to lip-read pottery instruction from the lady?!?
Are they both pleased to finally have TalkbyText installed on their handset…..
Or, they are elated to [...]

[ More ] February 26th, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in Deaf |

Geeky question – just to get my appetite going….

Hiya all
How do you get a machine which is dual booted for Windows XP and Ubuntu Feisty Gibbon to have a shared folder between them platforms?
More blogs to come…..

[ More ] January 29th, 2008 | 10 Comments | Posted in Personal |

Synthetic phonics

My alarm bells was ringing after watching ‘Dispatches’ on Channel 4 last nite. The documentary is entitled “Why our children can’t read“.
The background reading leading to this documentary:
“According to Government statistics, a fifth of youngsters leaving primary school can’t read and write properly. That means they have not reached the benchmark reading age of an [...]

[ More ] October 23rd, 2007 | 9 Comments | Posted in Deaf |

Just a boring and geeky blog announcement

This blogsite is now webcam and gravatar-enabled.
I am using Riffly plug-in for Wordpress. I edited the php code to omit the ‘inappropriate’ option to make an audio comment (no brainer, really!).
You can create your own gravatar profile, via the website. Your mug/artwork/pixelwork will appears next to your comment. I’ve positioned it so that the “speech” [...]

[ More ] October 22nd, 2007 | Comments Off | Posted in Technology |

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