Yippee! I finally got the XP part of the mac to stop treating the projector as an extended desktop. Just in time for the arrival of the ebeam interactive whiteboard. It now works as I had intended all along. If only its XP personality didn't take quite so long to boot up and log on...

Today's ALBA install on my new split-personality MacPCBookProXP went swimmingly after circumventing the very fussy internal DVD drive (it seemed to want the disk to be surgically clean). Only after I'd transferred the necessary files to the network from my trusty old PC, which would happily try to read a Hob-Nob, did I get started....

Finally got my Mac back after an extended visit to the IT technician (thanks again Bob). It is now running both MacOS X and Windows xp (after a few wee difficulties that had to be ironed out) . It all seems very stable, and I should now be able to run all the software I...

Having been in teaching a while, I've taught quite a few pupils over the years, and been in quite a few schools. I've been at Hermitage for about a year now, so thought I'd have faded completely from the memories of any former pupils. To my great surprise, some have been in touch recently, probably...