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QRC.edu is looking for information on all of the Royalian spaces on the net.

We would like to hear about your email distribution services, message boards and websites. We want to know where you are, who runs your spots, and which group of Old Boys (and girls!) your space represents. We’d love to do a feature on your group and introduce it to the wider Royalian community.

Please email your information to groups [at] QRC [dot] edu.

The site has been relatively inactive since the Quite Respectable Chaps’ Small Lime in December 2008.  Since then though, we’ve done some minor tweaking of the look and feel of the QRC.edu news feed, and published a few event posts last week and this weekend. [Link 1, Link 2,  Link 3]

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QRC finished the game with a 1-nil win, but we could have beaten Malick by as many as 4 or 5 clear.

The Morvant team’s keeper showed a good pair of hands and credit must be given where it is due.  However, our frontline could have done more with the ball.  Between players gaping as star striker and national Under-17 captain Jerrel Britto ran with the ball, and Britto himself not recognizing when help was available to him, the team didn’t capitalise on a number of scoring opportunities.

Otherwise, the defence, marshalled for another year by Kareem “Ritchie” Richardson, looked tight and composed for the most part.  And the midfield, when showing requisite intensity, managed to both hold possession for lengthy stretches and to dispossess the wilder and rougher Malick players.

We will take the point, but with other teams in the zone seeming to score at will, we need to start establishing some goal difference cushion and that early.

After its two games, the team sits third on the zone table with four points.  They are behind Fatima on nine points from three games and St. Anthony’s, also on four point but with a superior goal difference.  Rounding out the table are Mucurapo and St. Mary’s, both on four points from three games.  Neither Malick nor Trinity have managed to secure point from their three and two matches respectively.

QRC travels to face St. Mary’s College on Saturday 13th Spetember.  Kick-off time is 3:45PM.  All Royalians and supporters are encouraged to attend.  This match too will get Livecast treatment by QRC.edu.

As the schedule indicates, QRC faces Malick Senior Comprehensive this afternoon in an away game at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.  Match time is 3:45PM.

For this match, QRC.edu is testing a new feature to permit those who cannot attend access to live Royalian commentary online.  Readers are invited to open a browser window to the following link in order to access this new web service:

http://www.qrc.edu/livecast.html

Based on a feed from microblogging service Twitter, the page is designed to update itself every 45 seconds, and will thus present the viewer with any new comments automatically.

Alternatively, Twitter subscribers may follow tweets posted by user “qrccommentator“.  Any web user may also follow the Twitter feed at the following link.  Users will have to manually refresh this page however as it does not automatically update.

http://twitter.com/qrccommentator/

Feedback on this new service will be greatly appreciated.

The QRC Link site at blogger.com has migrated to the official QRC domain. Readers can now find the new and improved QRC Link at:

We want to thank all readers and contributors who have offered their support since this site went live in November of 2006, and we further look forward to bigger and better things as the blog goes home to the School’s domain.

Email subscriptions should continue to function, and RSS users may be required to update their feeds. Note too that there is a wealth of new content added since the last post on January 31 at http://QRCLink.blogspot.com

So peruse the new site, comment, enjoy, and share the Link.

Queen’s Royal College is in online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. The page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Royal_College features a comprehensive summary on the College, includes a list of notable alumni who themselves have pages in Wikipedia, and it contains links to a handful of QRC-related websites.

The page’s history suggests that it (the page) was created in June 2005, and it has been edited several times since its first version. Some refining and citations are required though, and the wider College community is encouraged to contribute to the responsible polishing of this encyclopaedia entry.

Wikipedia (IPA: /ˌwikiˈpiːdi.ə/ or /ˌwɪkiˈpiːdi.ə/) is a multilingual, web-based, free content encyclopaedia project. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by volunteers from all around the world. With rare exceptions, its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the Internet, simply by clicking the edit this page link. The name Wikipedia is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a type of collaborative website) and encyclopedia. Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference Web sites on the Internet.

QRC.edu is back! Thanks to Kwesi Ames of the Fifth Form Class of ’89, the domain name was saved late last year, and hosting space was secured on US-based servers earlier this month by Keith Francis, also of the Class of ’89.

At present, there is a placeholder page directing visitors to this blog. However, work is being done by a wider team of alumni to ensure that the school’s online presence is bigger and better than it has ever been.

For more on the site’s ongoing development, keep your browsers pointed to QRCLink.blogspot.com and to QRC.edu.