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Front or pending?

Saved on 06/10/2007

I've added another switch to override the default in your email to weblog Prefs. I did this because Helen, the Head, at Bodnant Infants, Prestatyn posts little snips to her site, while Jemma, the nursery nurse, bulk posts dozens of pictures, and wants then to hang in the pending news items for her to...

Front or pending?

Tea making

Saved on 05/10/2007

Yesterday, I sent out a link to my l o n g how to email to weblog. I wish it wasn't so long. To email to your site, you just need to do that, email to your site. That's pretty simple.Tea making

Expert email to blog

Saved on 04/10/2007

Finally, I've cleaned up the how to for the email to weblog interface. It was a feature, now it's an interface.Now, you can easily (I hope) figure out what else you can do with the interface, that is, if you're using it already. If you're not call me, or mail me. If you want a site like this call me...

Expert email to blog

Creating PDFs

Saved on 03/10/2007

Here's a tip that I just emailed one customer, Kersey Primary in Suffolk. She wants to create a PDF of her school brochure which is a Word doc.I'm not sure with Word, I don't have it, I believe there may be an export function to export as a pdf. Regardless, this is the other way, the way that I use,...

Creating PDFs

Yeuch

Saved on 03/10/2007

Children find Jamie Oliver's school food hard to swallow, say inspectors: "Schools which have marketed their menus have done much better."Anybody can be sold. My 9 year old daughter complains of the grumpy staff, putting tomato sauce on her beans, and of baked beef lumps, fried, breaded fish that's 'squishy'...

Yeuch

The Huffity Puf Man is real

Saved on 02/10/2007

Huffity Puf Man. He huffs and puffs. We know, we saw him.In Ironbridge. On The Iron Bridge which is...

The Huffity Puf Man is real

Cabbits aren't real

Saved on 02/10/2007

They're an impossibility. Though this doesn't convince everybody. Ryo-Ohki a manga character and isn't real either.Half cat, half rabbit, cabbits look cute though, huh? Here's a nice cabbit story.Why am I writing about cabbits? Because it's a hot topic amongst children today. Teachers need...

Cabbits aren't real

Delicious post

Saved on 01/10/2007

From Glendale with love. This post is dripping with understated beauty. You really want to click those thumbnails...

Delicious post

Careful with everything

Saved on 01/10/2007

Is it link bait or is it a real news item? Of course, I think it's a real item, nevertheless, I'm taking the bait and linking to it.A list of tips for staying safe for parents, for children from Warwickshire's Glendale Infants. I added to the comments that parents (and teachers) should ensure all computers...

Careful with everything

Morning blogging

Saved on 28/09/2007

I see the Deputy Head at Pudsey, in Leeds, working at 6.45am. Posting a large photographic news item about their open evening which brought back past pupils from over 13 years ago. (I also see many past pupils emailing the school through the website, which they wouldn't have done were it not an excellent...

Morning blogging

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