Meanings and history of the name Kara : | Edit. Sometimes considered a derivative of Katherine, Greek in origin, meaning pure.. Also means empty in Japanese such as in karate 'empty hand' and karaoke 'empty orchestra'.eanings and history of the name Kara : | Edit. Sometimes considered a derivative of Katherine, Greek in origin, meaning pure.. Also means empty in Japanese such as in karate 'empty hand' and karaoke 'empty orchestra'.
Scratch (http://scratch.mit.edu/) is a popular free software package used in schools to introduce simple computer programming.
Scratch looks like a children's computer game - but I achieved more from playing with it for 20 minutes than I have in years of tinkering on and off with more powerful (= complicated and hard to use) applications!