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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 9

Today in Spanish class we covered… A Note on Gustar Gustar always needs the pronoun. Dan le gusta comer.   Tomar vs Coger Tomar (to take) is synonymous with coger (to catch). Coger is used in Spain,...

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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 10

Today in Spanish class we learned… Quantities mucho = much / a lot muy = very muchos/muchas = many Normally tengo mucho and estoy muy. A, De and En a = to / at de = of / from en = in / on / at...

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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 11

Today in Spanish class we learned… A Note On El When talking about days of the week etc, use el to say on. El fin de semaña = the end of the week The Past Tense: El Pretérito o El Pasadado AR verbs: yo...

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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 12

Today’s Spanish class was mainly spent talking and revising previous material, so just some random vocab today. Random Vocab pologne = Polish relámpagos = lightening trenos = thunder mariposas =...

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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 13

Today in Spanish class we learned: Random Vocab Sobrar = to be left over / to remain Recalentar = to reheat lima = non sour lime fruit limon (amarilla) = lemon limon (verde) = lime picar = to chop /...

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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 14

Today in Spanish class we learned… Estar Present: yo estoy = I am (estar) tu estás = you are (estar) él está = he is (estar) nosotros estamos = we are (estar) ellos estan = they are (estar) Past...

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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 15

In today’s Spanish class we learned some vocab: Random Vocab predicir = to predict sequía = drought bomberos = firemen las fincas = farmers sombria / parabas = umbrella nieve = snow la lluvia = rain...

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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 16

Today we learned… Sentarse (to sit) Present: Yo me siento = I sit Tú te sientas = you sit El se sienta = he sits Nosotros nos sentamos = we sit Ustedes se sientan = you (all) sit Past: Yo me senté = I...

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Starfall Math

Starfall.com started out as a free educational resource for teaching children reading through phonetics, but has since grown to add a paid math section, “Starfall Math“. The Starfall math section is...

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Fixing the Brightness Problem with HP Laptops… Finally

I’ve been using my HP Pavillon DM1 laptop for almost a year now and it has proven to be the perfect laptop for working while travelling the world. It’s both lightweight and powerful. But it has had one...

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Cryptanalysis of Sapparot

I’m posting some of my old cryptography notes online to make them more easily available. Here’s an attack I came up with against the Sapparot algorithm. The attack is pretty simple and was already...

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Wildcard Subdomains in Apache

When developing websites I like to have my development environment mimic production as closely as possible. Directory Depth Issues In particular, I like files to have the same relationship to the...

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Mark Forester’s Autofocus System Revisited

I’ve been doing a 5 week block of full-time work on Calcatraz. I wanted to make sure I would be as productive as possible, so I decided to do a trial of Mark Forester’s Autofocus System. I’ve used it...

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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 6

Today I learned… ER verbs o es e emos en Aprender (to learn) yo aprendo = I learn tu aprendes = you learn el aprende = he learns nosotros aprendemos = we learn ellos aprenden = they learn Comer (to...

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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 7

Today we learned… Reflexive pronouns / verbs Reflexive verbs end in se. lavarse = to wash (hands, etc) ducharse = to shower cepillarse = to brush (teeth) acostarse = to go to sleep afeitarse = to shave...

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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 8

Today we learned … Future tense Ir a + infinitivo = going to … yo voy = I’m going tu vas = you are going el va = he is going nosotros vamos = we are going ustedes van = you (all) are going Examples Yo...

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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 9

Today in Spanish class we covered… A Note on Gustar Gustar always needs the pronoun. Dan le gusta comer.   Tomar vs Coger Tomar (to take) is synonymous with coger (to catch). Coger is used in Spain,...

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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 10

Today in Spanish class we learned… Quantities mucho = much / a lot muy = very muchos/muchas = many Normally tengo mucho and estoy muy. A, De and En a = to / at de = of / from en = in / on / at...

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Spanish Lesson Notes: Day 11

Today in Spanish class we learned… A Note On El When talking about days of the week etc, use el to say on. El fin de semaña = the end of the week The Past Tense: El Pretérito o El Pasadado AR verbs: yo...

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Tweet at Exactly the Right Moment with Buffer and Tweriod

When you tweet can have a big impact on the impact your tweets have – how many retweets, mentions, follows and clicks you get as a result. But how can you figure out the best time to tweet? And how can...

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