[Year 12 IT Apps] Announcing acarait.com (Mark KELLY)

Mark KELLY kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
Tue Apr 10 19:34:14 EST 2012


Try visiting acara.it (ciao, bella!)

Getting any 4-letter top-level domain name is nearly impossible these days
unless you're willing to spend big money.

On 10 April 2012 12:12, Lee, James q <lee.james.q at edumail.vic.gov.au> wrote:

> Some musings:
>
> Is it just me, or does acarait.com sound like a-carrot.com? ;)
>
> If you are or want to pretend to be an Italian national (shhh), you could
> register a name with a .IT suffix (you don't even need the com).
> So Mark could register VCE.IT or ACE.IT?  or MARK.IT for his own personal
> use? ;)
>
> James Lee
> http://www.mrlee.it
> VCE VET Printing & Graphic Arts (Desktop Publishing)
> Mill Park Secondary College MIddle Years ICT, Web Design & Game Programming
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>   1. Announcing icarait.com (Mark KELLY)
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>   3. Re: [Year 12 SofDev and itapps] Announcing        icarait.com
>      (Andrew Shortell)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 23:11:21 +1000
> From: Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
> Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Announcing icarait.com
> To: "Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List"
>        <sofdev at edulists.com.au>, "Year 12 IT Applications Teachers'
> Mailing
>        List"   <itapps at edulists.com.au>
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>
> Hi all*
>
> Please ignore this post - it may only become relevant in about 3 years, if
> federal government national curriculum IT plans continue unabated.
>
> Realising that I was lucky to grab the domain name vceit.com before it
> was registered by a cunning oriental numerologist, I decided to
> future-proof myself against the Australian Curriculum before it dumps
> itself on us all with its full pedagogical majesty.
>
> So, I took advantage of holiday lethargy to register *acarait.com* before
> the only remaining choice was *
> AustralianCurriculumAssessmentandReportingAuthorityInformationTechnology.com.
> *
>
> So, soon you will be able to visit the ACARA-enabled vceit.com site by
> typing *acarait.com*.
>
> Your first visit to acarait.com might seem *remarkably* similar to your
> previous visits to vceit.com... changes may occur as soon as I find out
> what ACARA is, exactly.
>
> Actually, I don't really care too much about what ACARA IT includes, as
> long as it has a *glossary.*
>
> And there's not too much databasing.
>
> And there's some 21st century content such as media editing.
>
> Come to think of it, I *do* care about what ACARA IT includes. You might
> want to get your sixpence worth of input in while they're still listening.
>
> Keep enjoying the sunny days while they're here
>
> Mark
> --
>
> * Especially *you*, the cute, shy lurker at the back - yes *you*, the one
> with good ideas who has always *meant* to start posting here, but has so
> far been too scared to do so.  Post now. It's quiet. We don't bite.
>
> --
> Mark Kelly
> Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area McKinnon Secondary College
> McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia Direct line / Voicemail: +613
> 8520 9085, Fax +613 9578 9253 kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au VCE IT Lecture
> Notes: http://vceit.com
> Moderator: IT Applications Edulist <http://www.edulists.com.au/>
>
> --
> An E-flat, a C, and a G go into a bar. The bartender says, "I'm sorry, but
> I can't serve minors."
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 23:25:34 +1000
> From: Mark KELLY <kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Announcing icarait.com
> To: "Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List"
>        <sofdev at edulists.com.au>, "Year 12 IT Applications Teachers'
> Mailing
>        List"   <itapps at edulists.com.au>
> Message-ID:
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> Of course when I mentioned the announcement of "icarait.com", I actually
> meant "acarait.com".
>
> It was a slip of the something-or-other whatchamacallit - umm - brain?
> Yeah, that thing.
>
> --
> Mark Kelly
> Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area McKinnon Secondary College
> McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia Direct line / Voicemail: +613
> 8520 9085, Fax +613 9578 9253 kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au VCE IT Lecture
> Notes: http://vceit.com
> Moderator: IT Applications Edulist <http://www.edulists.com.au/>
>
> --
>
> "If there's a quest, it must be beaten.
> If there's a mocha hot cross bun, it must be eaten."
>
> The Dalai Lama
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> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2012 08:25:38 +1000
> From: Andrew Shortell <shortell at get2me.net>
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] [Year 12 SofDev and itapps] Announcing
>        icarait.com
> To: "Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List"
>        <sofdev at edulists.com.au>, "Year 12 IT Applications Teachers'
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> Perhaps you should also register   auit.com  (australia IT) as this may
> well become teh australian curriculum  and it is ieasier to type for those
> of us who are lexico-grahically challenged (or like me whose fiongers are
> too big for small keyboards)
>
> Andrew
>
> Andrew Shortell
> CRC Melton
>
> On 07/04/2012, at 11:11 PM, Mark KELLY wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi all*
> >
> > Please ignore this post - it may only become relevant in about 3 years,
> if federal government national curriculum IT plans continue unabated.
> >
> > Realising that I was lucky to grab the domain name vceit.com before it
> was registered by a cunning oriental numerologist, I decided to
> future-proof myself against the Australian Curriculum before it dumps
> itself on us all with its full pedagogical majesty.
> >
> > So, I took advantage of holiday lethargy to register acarait.com before
> the only remaining choice was
> AustralianCurriculumAssessmentandReportingAuthorityInformationTechnology.com.
> >
> > So, soon you will be able to visit the ACARA-enabled vceit.com site by
> typing acarait.com.
> >
> > Your first visit to acarait.com might seem remarkably similar to your
> previous visits to vceit.com... changes may occur as soon as I find out
> what ACARA is, exactly.
> >
> > Actually, I don't really care too much about what ACARA IT includes, as
> long as it has a glossary.
> >
> > And there's not too much databasing.
> >
> > And there's some 21st century content such as media editing.
> >
> > Come to think of it, I do care about what ACARA IT includes. You might
> want to get your sixpence worth of input in while they're still listening.
> >
> > Keep enjoying the sunny days while they're here
> >
> > Mark
> > --
> >
> > * Especially you, the cute, shy lurker at the back - yes you, the one
> with good ideas who has always meant to start posting here, but has so far
> been too scared to do so.  Post now. It's quiet. We don't bite.
> >
> > --
> > Mark Kelly
> > Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area McKinnon Secondary College
> > McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia Direct line /
> > Voicemail: +613 8520 9085, Fax +613 9578 9253
> > kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au VCE IT Lecture Notes: http://vceit.com
> > Moderator: IT Applications Edulist
> >
> > --
> > An E-flat, a C, and a G go into a bar. The bartender says, "I'm sorry,
> but I can't serve minors."
> >
> >
> >
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Mark Kelly
Manager of ICT, Reporting, IT Learning Area
McKinnon Secondary College
McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia
Direct line / Voicemail: +613 8520 9085, Fax +613 9578 9253
kel at mckinnonsc.vic.edu.au
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