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English Language Teaching has moved

By miguel | Published: January 24, 2008

If you are looking for ELT, the site can now be found here: * http://miguelbengoa.com/elt and here: * http://miguelbengoa.com/elt/babel-placement-test/ Many thanks to all the staff at http://www.futurequest.net/, especially Bob, his anonymous technician and Melissa, without whose help I would not have got to bed last night! Most importantly, thank you to all our visitors who have remained patient during [...]

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new look

By miguel | Published: January 21, 2007

This weekend there has been no posting of music as my wife and I have been moaning and groaning through a dreadful Cypriot flu. All that I have been able to do is sit in front of the computer and aimlessly break things.

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Spammed

By miguel | Published: January 8, 2007

Incredible and amazing! After less than twelve hours of having the video tests on the site I have had a record number of visitors leaving an improbable number of comments – in the hundreds. All of it spam. Akismet, an anti-spam plug-in is now activated: < ?php akismet_counter(); ?> and should start learning what is and [...]

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podpress video test 2

By miguel | Published: January 7, 2007

This is a second test, using a different file format: “flv”. This file is much smaller, so dial-up friendly (small enough to stream in my dial-up in TRNC) and should be compatible with nearly every browser, with flash installed – as have 98% of all browsers. If you can see the player, then you have [...]

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podpress video test 1

By miguel | Published: January 7, 2007

This is a test to check compatibility of file formats and video palyers. You should be able to: Play the video in the player Open and close the player Play the video in a pop up [maybe this is disabled in your browser Download the video and play it in your favourite media player Find the video in iTunes – [...]

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