A-rated school may be X-rated after hours
By QMI Agency A Florida school may be going from glee club by day to nightclub after dark. The Balere Language Academy in Miami — a charter school for kindergarten through Grade 8 with an A rating from Florida’s education department — is the address noted on flyers advertising the “Push It To Da Limit” party supposed to take place Saturday, reports the Orlando Sentinel. And it’s not the first after-hours party believed to have been held there. Parents, tipped off by empty beer bottles and the lingering smell of smoke at their children’s school,...
Read MoreWATCH: History of the Personal Computer (P.C.)
THE history of personal computers began in the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user’s requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals. Bucle up and prepare to take an exciting ride down memory lane via this documentary by famed technology journalist Robert X. Cringley as he tells us how the war for the pc begun. Part one of two: Part two of...
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Has the MiniDisc revival begun?
By Chris Stevens SONY is bringing MiniDisc back from the grave, soil between its toes and a blade between its teeth. The MZ-RH1 is was set for release in 2006. You might have thought the format was dead, but MiniDisc is alive once more, and it deserves to be. But why would any sane person think that? Back in the mid-90s, MiniDisc seemed like the logical replacement for the cassette tape, and perhaps even the CD. MiniDiscs were re-recordable, like tapes, but used a digital format that wouldn’t degrade with age. But unlike CDs, each MiniDisc came in its own thin plastic caddy. You could...
Read MorePersons of the week: Dwayne Caines and Robin Simmons
THEY are the guys who are forced out of bed at 3 a.m. to respond to a major incident of crime that often requires them to put on a brave face beneath hot lights and camera lenses wielded often times by a harsh media. For many years now, the names “Dwayne Caines” and “Robin Simmons” have almost been synonymous with the fight against crime in Bermuda and the Bermuda Police Service, for which they are employed. Mr. Caines, also known for his community work with his brother Wayne, studied journalism at University and works as Public and Media...
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