Anith Gopal

Microsoft have teamed up with 123-reg.co.uk to offer UK students the chance to get themselves premium Windows based hosting with a free domain name for only £1 per month. You need an ac.uk email address and a voucher code to sign up .

There is an interesting conversation going on in the comments of Mark Guzdial’s blog that I wanted to engage in a small part of that conversation in more depth than what fits in a comment.

A friend of mine, a teacher I have great respect for, took a week long workshop. Some of it went well and some of it, well, not so well. And they wrote about it

One of my former students contacted me via LinkedIn last night. Hearing from former students is one of the great joys in my life. I guess the first part of that is ego – I am thrilled to death that years after leaving high school they even remember me.

Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud computing platform allowing deployment of .NET applications with flexible scaling.

It’s that time of year again.

Have you seen those yoghurts that contain an unpronounceable micro-organism that has a beneficial effect on the well being of your digestive system?

  With all the buzz about Mix 09 last week, many may have missed that we just launched Microsoft Surface here in the UK. Marc Holmes just posted a blog where he talks about the launch of Surface and the the media coverage that the event generated.

A little while back I posted about a great new programme we launched which gives students free access to official Microsoft eLearning courses. To sign up you need a unique code which authenticates you as a student, the great news is these codes are now available (along with a bunch of free software) from DreamSpark

I had some time over the holidays to catch up on all of my New Yorker magazines, and I came across a fantastic article written by Malcom Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, Blink and most recently, Outliers. The article is titled “Most Likely to Succeed: How do we hire when we can’t tell who’s right for the job?” (Click here to read it.) (If you do read it, you’ll note that Gladwell spends a lot of time discussing finding the right quarterback for an American football team. Ignore those parts, or skip them, or whatever

I think I am getting old, as this year’s BETT show was a test of physical endurance to say the least. I think I am a few centimetres shorter, as my spine has compressed from standing all day, my knees ache, my ears are buzzing from all the background noise and I have a repetitive strain injury due to handing out flyers