7/14/2006

The ResourceShelf newsletter out today provides a link to an article UK’s Resource Discovery Network Now Known as Intute – it is well worth a read. The same article also posts links to news about “Internet Detective” which Central TAFE hopes to utilise in its new online Information Skills tutorials on WebCT and the launch of a second ESL Virtual Training Suite tutorial.

Tomorrow I will be on leave for 2 weeks. Tim is coming home this weekend and we have a lot of catching up to do. He contracted a golden staph. infection after undergoing knee replacement surgery and it's been an uphill battle for 6 weeks while he's been in hospital fighting the infection. He's not out of the woods yet and will probably have to continue on antibiotics for 2-3 years. Currently he receives them intravenously but eventually he hopes to be able to take them orally.

Mum will also be home next week. She has had a pacemaker installed and has taken some time to recover. She has spent the past 2 weeks in a beautiful nursing home where she's had a room flooded with sunlight and nurses ready to run round catering to her every whim. It will be hard for her to come back to reality!

7/07/2006

Virus Attack

In spite of all I've read about the dangers of downloading files from unknown sites I stupidly downloaded a file earlier this week that infected my laptop with a Trojan virus. Fortunately I have an antivirus installed (why didn't that stop it?) and was able to clean up my files without having to reinstall the operating system.

Read the article Understanding Hidden Threats: Corrupted Software Files http://www.uscert.gov/cas/tips/ST06-006.html and make sure it doesn't happen to you!

Beatles Music

Still looking for Beatles music for my iPod I came across a suggestion to use these search terms “index of” + “mp3″ + “beatles” -html -htm -php. This was in an essay about advanced Google searching at http://www.cwire.org/data-mining-using-google/ so I was actually working at the time. There were several sites from where I was able to download free MP3 files and also some where they could be purchased ridiculously cheaply.

http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jul06/Mattison.shtml has an article about finding classical music but there are many ideas for finding music in all types of genres using a variety of search engines.