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Jun 142010
 
The New York Times bans the word "tweet"

The New York Times, one of the most respected and widely read newspapers in the world, has recently announced that it has banned the use of the word “tweet” (ie. a Twitter status update) because apparently ‘”tweet” isn’t standard English, “and standard English is what we should use in news articles”‘. However, what is “standard [...Read more...]

Jun 042010
 

If you are a hard-working blogger with limited funds, you may quickly notice that WordPress is inexplicably eating your webspace quota with massive amounts of files in the wp-content folder.  What the heck? A quick examination of the wp-content folder reveals the culprit: thumbnails (or possibly even excess plugins!). For thumbnails, one can disable future [...Read more...]

May 312010
 

IB Biology exam revision has historically been an issue around exam time due to the lack of legitimate resources–for instance, there are few decent textbooks for IB Biology specifically, and there is essentially only one notable study guide. More or less, here are the current book resources available to IB resources: (course companion and study [...Read more...]

May 292010
 
Lockerz rant/FAQ

I trust many of us have recently heard about Lockerz and its (in?)famous “redemptions” where you can get free stuff for apparently little work; you merely login and answer a question a day. It does cause one to wonder if it is too good to be true. After all, there are poor bloggers (cough cough) [...Read more...]