Graphing Google
Now you can plot mathematical functions right on the search result page. Just type in a function and you’ll see an interactive graph on the top of the search results page.

Now you can plot mathematical functions right on the search result page. Just type in a function and you’ll see an interactive graph on the top of the search results page.

Today is Pi Day! Enjoy: edit: Actually it would be yesterday wouldn’t it? 3.14 and all. Oops 🙂
A post I’ve been meaning to write for many months… Battles: I have had my battles with Internet filtering in the past, but I’m now the man in charge. Every school I have worked in so far in my opinion has had an old fashioned ‘head in the sand’ view to filtering and acceptable use…
Ed Balls has, well, sorry, had the balls to ditch SATs for 14 year olds in England. I can’t quite describe how elated I am! Ignoring last years fiasco, these tests have narrowed the curriculum, the teaching opportunities and pupils enthusiasm for the subject for years. The league tables that accompanied them often narrowed a…
So today Google announced that they will be introducing their very own Google Chrome OS. This follows in the wake of excellent the Google Chrome web browser which was released last year. Designed initially for netbooks, it appears that the OS will effectively be little more than a web browser. The beauty of this is…
Back to back snow days – what more could you want? Busier trails today that I could actually run. Distance: 14km. New squares: 8. New peaks: 1. New Trigs: 1. Looking back over Greenfield to Alderman’s. SD9903. Climbing up Alphin felt a little like Everest today. Such lovely conditions brought a queue of people…
Snow and ice, a first trig point, and a bump to the head! Distance: 13km. New squares: 5. New peaks: 1. New trig points: 1. SD9807 takes in the Saddleworth village of Delph. I almost always take the footpath along the river, rather than the high street. It’s quiet and another nice bit of industrial…