Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 08:33PM We have decided to have a Christmas Bash in the department in honour of the festive season. I've just spend half an hour fiddling with Photoshop to make the poster. Find out more here.
Link Wednesday, December 3, 2008 at 09:16AM One of my students has noticed that some institutions are now selling advertising space on their sample exam papers:
http://consumerist.com/5100958/teacher-sells-ads-on-tests-to-cover-printing-costs
I told him that I've got a few companies lined up for mine:
Rob
Just got an email from "Hutchinsons Resit Revision Aids". They have told me that since students who work on sample papers don't tend to fail the exams, they now wish to withdraw their advert....
Life Tuesday, December 2, 2008 at 10:25PM Ed Dunhill from Microsoft came to see us today as part of the Inspiration Tour. He gave an excellent talk to a whole bunch of students. One of the things he showed us was Silverlight and Deep Zoom. This is wonderful. A bit like Photosynth, but you can create your own images into which web users can zoom and zoom and zoom. And zoom. Don't take my word for it, have a look at the Hard Rock Memorabilia site.
If you want to make your own Deep Zoom pictures you can download the Deep Zoom Composer for free here.
Monday, December 1, 2008 at 08:39PM A quick reminder to anyone at Hull who reads my blog. That's both of you...
Microsoft are coming to see us tomorrow. They are taking their Inspiration Tour on the road and will be giving their presentation starting at 2:15 pm in the Physics Large Lecture Theatre, which is in the same building as the Computer Centre, but up the big stairs and all the way to the back.
Be there, talk is of some free T shirts....
Rob
Tomorrow is now today, if you see what I mean. Microsoft will be here today, Tuesday 2nd of December at 2:15 pm in Physics Large lecture theatre.
Life 
