Monthly Archives: May 2008

links for 2008-05-27

Posted on May 27, 2008 by gareth

BSL multi-channel signs A collection of BSL multi-channel signs from Redditch Deaf Club (tags: bsl sign language multi-channel)

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Garden Hose – A BSL story (/homework!)

Posted on May 26, 2008 by gareth

As we had a half term escape from my sign language course this week, we were given a monster homework. Translate an entire story from English to BSL. Here is my attempt – see if you can work out what … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-05-17

Posted on May 17, 2008 by gareth

Splashtop Instant-On Desktop from DeviceVM Linux embedded on a motherboard so you can surf the web (and other things) almost immediately from turning on your machine. Can have your ‘main’ OS start up in the backround if needed. (tags: linux … Continue reading →

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Modification and intensifiers in BSL

Posted on May 16, 2008 by gareth

A really common way of differentiating things like speed, weight, size, etc in BSL is using non-manual features (NMF) such as modifiers and intensifiers. For example, when expressing the speed of someone cycling, I would use a single sign to … Continue reading →

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Compound signs

Posted on May 16, 2008 by gareth

I’ve mentioned compound signs in a previous post but I’ve studied them recently on my BSL course so I thought I’d go into a little more detail. A compound sign is one that is created by combining two (or more) … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-05-16

Posted on May 16, 2008 by gareth

OnOneMap Property search engine with a difference (tags: googlemaps map property house) Geek And Poke Web2.0 related cartoons (tags: humor humour web2.0 cartoon funny)

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British Computer Society struggles to use computers

Posted on May 13, 2008 by gareth

I got my BCS membership renewal yesterday and went through checking my details. It was quite interesting to see my phone numbers represented in the form 4.42E+11. Wow, that would be embarrasing if it was a computing-related society. Oh, hang … Continue reading →

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links for 2008-05-10

Posted on May 10, 2008 by gareth

How To select fastest mirror in Ubuntu Ubuntu has an automated way to help you pick the fastest mirror. From ubuntugeek.com. (tags: ubuntu linux mirror howto)

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Replacing Python on a Battlefield 2 server

Posted on May 7, 2008 by gareth

Lately I’ve been doing some work (I promise it is real work) with Battlefield 2. The server part of the game has a cut-down version of Python built in so that you can interact with it, modifying aspects of the … Continue reading →

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Online tools outside and inside the firewall

Posted on May 7, 2008 by gareth

The one thing that really frustrates me about most online tools is that I can’t use them for work – confidentiality and other boring reasons stand in the way of me using twitter to talk about confidential IBM things, Remember … Continue reading →

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