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How computers work, for children.

Posted by windsandbreezes on April 26th, 2010 under beautiful things, techynerdstuff  •  6 Comments

Have you ever wondered how computers work? And have you asked someone?
A lot of grown-ups do not understand how computers work, so I suppose if you did ask someone, they’ll have told you something helpful like “I don’t know love, why don’t you ask Daddy” or “Computers are very clever. That’s how they work” or, [...]

Design CVs

Posted by windsandbreezes on April 25th, 2010 under techynerdstuff  •  No Comments

If you google hunt curriculum vitae and related information on the internet, a couple of things happen. You get a lot of career advice sites coming back at you; you get a couple of wikepedia sites and then you get some image results.
At some point, you will probably arrive on this page via the image [...]

What goes around comes around…

Posted by windsandbreezes on March 2nd, 2010 under techynerdstuff  •  No Comments

I remember vaguely about 20 years ago I used to have an Atari 1200XL. I wrote my first code on it at the age of 13. It did something funny involving a line. My mother was really impressed. It was effectively copy and paste code; I think it was about 10 lines of BASIC that [...]

another programming language

Posted by windsandbreezes on November 11th, 2009 under personal, techynerdstuff  •  No Comments

So, for my sins I have experience writing assembler (beat that), Java (hmmm) and that other stuff what’s it called, Visual Basic (cupla versions ago, let’s not brag about that) and am in the process of looking at possible Masters options. I can sort of battle my way around some php but with quite a [...]