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My Top 10 things favouriate learning sayings:
1
"Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradiation", Jacques Barzan, Columbia University.
2
"A man of learning is never bored", Jean Paul Richter.
3
"Age is only a number, a ciper for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it ...", Bernard Baruch.
4
"Wisdom is a reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk", Doug Larson.
5
"If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance", Derek Bok, Harvard University.
6
"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'", Somerset Maughm.
7
"You can learn good manners from the bad manners of others", Don't know.
8
"Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced", John Keats.
9
"Experience is a hard teacher becuase she gives the test first, and the lessons later", Vernon Law.
10
"The cost of education is a fraction of the cost that we would have to pay if we were ignorant and ruled by Kings and Queens", Don't know.
"We don't see (Microsoft) Windows as a long-term graphical interface for the masses".
Lotus Development official, while demonstrating a new DOS version of Lotus 1-2-3.

 

 

 

 

 

 

15 May 2001

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My week

Books
I'm just finishing my Mastering Computing book, and I must say that it's been a bit difficult to write as Computing now covers so many areas. I've included computer hardware, operating systems, programming, networking, distributed systems, electronic commerce, the Internet, databases, multimedia, WWW development, artifical intelligence, and lots of other things, but there still seems to be more to add to it. The big problem is going to be reducing it to only 500 pages. Not easy when I've already done 850 pages. Oh dear!

Computer Engineering

This is last year I will be teaching Computer Engineering, but I've developed a few presentations which are based around the current syllubus. If you're interested, here they are:

PC Architecture
PCI
SCSI
AGP


A picture of the inside of my PC. Oh, I took the processor out of it, so that I could get a better picture. Hopefully I'll be able to put it back in, and it will still work

 

They're a little large to download, but have a look, there may be a few slides which you might find interesting. Unfortunately the room which I lecture in is hardly the best place to give a lecture. It's either too warm and stuffy, or it's too cold. Oh, and it's right beside the student smoking room, so it's a bit smelly too.

Macmillan WWW site
I'm the Series Editor for the Macmillan (now Palgave) Mastering series, and I've just finished an initial draft the Mastering series WWW site. It's not actually state-of-the-art, but it's fairly tidy, and will allow us to expand it in the future, without too much effort. If you're interested, it here.

 

Current Favs.

Book:

 

Music CD:

Reveal, REM.
I've just bought it, but the Saturn Returns and I'll take the Rain and Chorus and the Ring sound great.

Song:

I'll take the Rain, REM.
A beautiful song about how love can go cold, just like the changing of the seasons.


Favouriate quotes-of-the-week

I've moved these into the text, so see here.

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