Gosh! I don’t know if there is something special about the date December 6th — like the Ides of March, say — but I seem to have been astonishingly prolific on that date.

Here are the articles I wrote and published on 6 December in days gone by:

But where’s the pen?

This was about designing things by consulting the people who are actually going to use them. Radical suggestion, eh?

A bit of a tiff

6 Ways To Respond To Requests For Pointless Data

Levels In Computing? I Thought They'd Gone!

An Interview Concerning The Scrapping Of ICT

I interviewed Kay Sawbridge about the awful decision to get rid of a qualification that attracted lots of “takers”, especially girls, and replace it with one that most teachers, most students, and most companies didn’t want. A triumph of political posturing and meddling by people and organisations who in my opinion shouldn’t have been allowed anywhere near the curriculum. Perhaps now, after 6 years of losing students in droves , it’s time for a rethink.