Monthly Archives: May 2009

Bing Search – the Decision Engine?

What a strange phrase to use – a decision engine. Personally, I find search most often not for decisions but for information, yet perhaps, to inform a decision, somehow! Anyway, today we get to hear the first about Bing. Its going to be Microsoft’s new search engine, replacing what was MSN Search, then Windows Live [...]

Gordon asked me to post this…

A little message… Thanks Gordon

Links for 2009-05-27

How to Import and Display RSS Feeds in WordPress • Perishable Press An interesting and detailed post about importing RSS to WordPress. I will try and use these suggestions in the next release of this website. smush.it! Image optimizer to compress images – found from http://perishablepress.com (tags: tools webdesign firefox image compression)

$1000 Buys More Power than the Entire Human Species

Found this this evening, is it amazing and impressive or worrying? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDLIwlzkgY]

My House – A Sketch

I’m sure I drew something like this in a Product Design GCSE lesson once, which is strange, cos I drew my product design lamp before I drew this. Enjoy – its a scribble of mon maison (although, I think they call it chez nous or something like that!) Rob Parker Original! UPDATE: By the way, [...]

ROB… NEW

New, just a little play… Its a bit dodgy, but I think it could be good. The photos are taken from my flickr – click on the Elsewhere tab at the top to get to it!

Very sad revision

This page of Geography revision makes me really sad everything I read it. Makes you realise what a mess of the world we are making and that something needs to be done about it. Yet at the same time, you feel pretty powerless.

Edexcel Geography B Pre-Release Cairngorms – Download!

The full, colour Edexcel B Geography Pre-Release material on the Cairngorms is available to download here. Enjoy it! And if you want to know, it came from here.

Natural Disasters – Links for 2009-05-13

Natural disasters and extreme weather | World news | guardian.co.uk Good coverage of various recent natural hazards (tags: geog hazards haz guardian) BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Animated guide: Volcanoes BBC series of guides on causes of natural hazards (tags: geog hazards bbc bbcnews volcanoes)

Geography Hazards – Links for 2009-05-11

BBC – GCSE Bitesize – Tectonic plate boundaries BBC tectonic hazards info (tags: geog hazards bbc) S-Cool | Earth's structure Very good info about hazards (tags: geog hazards) Internet Geography All sorts of geography and hazards info (tags: geog info hazards) Geoscience Australia – Natural Hazards Home Very good site for information on hazards and [...]