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  • Archive for May 8th, 2008

    Clearing the Ground

    Thursday, May 8th, 2008

    The Vanuatu National Training Council (VNTC) recently presented their vision of an industry-driven training regime here in Vanuatu. The approach is based on what they call Competency Based Training. In simple terms, this approach is aimed to help people learn relevant and useful skills, and importantly, to be able to earn formal recognition for skills [...]

    Stop Bad Errors

    Thursday, May 8th, 2008

    I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04, which comes with the most recent beta of Firefox 3.0. The new version of Firefox has a number of interesting features, not the least of which is a set of measures to reduce drive-by infection of PCs.
    If they wander from the beaten path, people now see a big red [...]