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Microsoft Office XP Standard for Students and Teachers


Microsoft Software

The core packages but you will have to provide proof of educational status. This can be installed on the home computer by parents if the children qualify.


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£52.99

StarOffice 6.0


Sun Microsystems

Since being acquired by Sun from the German authors this has been steadily improved with the help of the millions who used the free version. Some system builders are now providing this as the package instead of the MS product at ten times the price.


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Norton AntiVirus 2003 (new version is Norton Antivirus 2004, asin: B0000B3A4U...


If you don't use one of the anti-virus packages you are taking an increasing risk of having your computer invaded. The results can be unpleasant.


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Writing biography

28 October 2020

‘You write a biography from the vantage point of where you are: your gender, your race, your class. It's not a love affair or a marriage: it's a job. You're not writing autobiography; you're writing about some other person, usually a dead person. You can only access them in as far as you have materials and witnesses to allow you to access them.  Read more

'After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes, is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, it is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.'

— Gertrude Stein

19 October 2020 - What's new

October 2020
  • ‘Get on top of the computer program Final Draft. It's expensive and buggy, but it's the industry standard and for a first-time screenwriter like me there is something magical about the way it makes everything look like a Hollywood movie script. The other thing I have learnt is, the better the scene the less of it there is on the page.
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Writing biography

28 October 2020

‘You write a biography from the vantage point of where you are: your gender, your race, your class. It's not a love affair or a marriage: it's a job. You're not writing autobiography; you're writing about some other person, usually a dead person. You can only access them in as far as you have materials and witnesses to allow you to access them.  Read more

'After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes, is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, it is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.'

— Gertrude Stein

19 October 2020 - What's new

October 2020
  • ‘Get on top of the computer program Final Draft. It's expensive and buggy, but it's the industry standard and for a first-time screenwriter like me there is something magical about the way it makes everything look like a Hollywood movie script. The other thing I have learnt is, the better the scene the less of it there is on the page.
  Read more