Month: December 2005

Spam is, unfortunately, an issue. As a site becomes popular, it starts to attract more and more unwanted attention from unscrupulous people who want to add their unwanted advertising, usually through weblog comments and discussion board postings. What’s the point? Basically, the more links to a site there are, the higher its Google pagerank, and […]

Last night I was in Mariposa, in the Yosemite foothills, and stopped into a burger joint. It was a typical family-run place, with $5 meals and the kind of welcoming, friendly atmosphere mixed with slight distrust that you only get in small-town America. There was a big TV in one corner showing the game, and […]

Apologies to anyone trying to get hold of me for the next couple of days. I’ll be on the road – or rather, in the air – travelling to California. My connectivity there should be pretty good, so I’ll be back online by Monday.

An odd one this afternoon. Can anyone recommend any good free or open source exam grade management software aimed at a university level that will record as much of the following as possible: Initial, resit and final test scores Any changes to those Weighted averages Additionally we’d preferably like it to transform scores into grades […]