katielou

November 2005



priest idol 3

Tuesday, 29 November 2005 11:08 P GMT+01
OK, it's over. I managed to remember that Priest Idol was actually on 4 as well as more 4, so I taped it last night and have just watched the last episode. What a marketing gimmick - 3000 'lite' bulbs given to everyone in the town. From an IKEA bag,

tingling tango

Monday, 28 November 2005 12:11 A GMT+01
OK, Mum, you can ring me now, I've caught up on my videos! Was obviously going to be Bill leaving Strictly this week, but I have to agree with the judges, Patsy Palmer never closed her feet once..tsk,tsk. And Erin was peeved last week because they ga

church lite

Sunday, 27 November 2005 9:56 P GMT+01
Well, I'm not exactly live blogging here, since I taped this last night, but am watching the second episode of Priest Idol. the brand the marketing peeps have come up with was 'church lite' which every one thought was hideous to start with, but you k
Category: general

del.icio.us

Saturday, 26 November 2005 3:31 P GMT+01
Humph. Have just created myself space in del.icio.us to be able to bookmark stuff where I can read from home and from work, put three things in, dead impressed, opened my work webmail to be able to bookmark things so I can delete mail list messages,
Category: work

stickies for windows

Friday, 25 November 2005 11:24 P GMT+01
Well, I dunno... height of excitement for a Friday night... I've installed my new printer and downloaded a Stickies for Windows. Think I'm a long way from Getting Things Done, but at least I can make more lists. I already make lists, and lists of lis

poorly bus

Friday, 25 November 2005 9:01 P GMT+01
There are very wobbly wheels on my bus today. I'm not its driver, nor just riding it. Maybe I'm its conductor. Which isn't easy because I can't always read the destination on the front display. I think the route map is upside down or something, or th

suffer the little children

Tuesday, 22 November 2005 11:55 P GMT+01
Er, yes.... From Amanda Cogdon (great vlog, no, we're not going there), a comment on a large family. Now I know someone who's one of 14, and she's ok, and of course it was common in my grandparents generation (have you ever looked up my surname in a

food vlog

Tuesday, 22 November 2005 10:03 P GMT+01
Hmm. We were discussing the failure of the internet to do smelly or tasty vision (probably just as well, or that cake would never have made it out of the door on Sunday), and I had then thought maybe the cake should have been the next podcast (it was
Category: play

rate this site

Tuesday, 22 November 2005 9:24 P GMT+01
Followed a link to SiteScore and thought I'd have a go.This report tested 5 pages of http://katielou.blog-city.com (using SiteScore v1.7.2)

replete!

Sunday, 20 November 2005 10:11 P GMT+01
Oh I SO love a man who can cook! And I know I need feeding up, but I think I've eaten enough to keep me going all week. (yes, I know a large portion of that was cake, but there were lots of veg too - how exactly did I manage to find myself eating spr
Category: play

priest idol

Sunday, 20 November 2005 12:24 A GMT+01
Ah, bless! This sweet little american priest has turned up in Baaarnsleh and thought he could up the congregation by well lots, you know me and maths. There's a Guardian report here, but I've only scrolled half way down, as it's a three parter and I'

cafe press

Saturday, 19 November 2005 3:21 P GMT+01
I'm so pleased Ste pointed out Café Press to me. I think it's fab. I just order some stickers for my stamps (talk about incentive to post things before xmas - don't raise your eyebrows, some of you might just get cards this year, and yes, I know it'
Category: play

starting to pull together blog report

Friday, 18 November 2005 10:56 P GMT+01
As attempted in the thinking earlier, I'm beginning to pull together the stuff I've been collecting for the last few months on blogs and blogging. They'll appear bit by bit, for a few people to comment on - partly to save the rest of you having to sc
Category: blogging

blog review questions

Friday, 18 November 2005 10:41 P GMT+01
Whilst I’m composing my essays on the bulleted list appearing earlier (some kilometres lower down the page, after my prolific scrabblings at edublogs), I’d be interested to hear your [re]views on this blog, based on the criteria below. They come
Category: blogging

del.icio.us

Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:54 P GMT+01
How do you know when you know you feel Swedish...?Hahahaha. Hahahaha. And I've only got to number 60 or so. And I'm going to bed, because live-blogging is hard work, but this is just so cool. But I found my way there through del.ici.ous, so although
Category: play

how stupid?

Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:38 P GMT+01
Honestly! From Kris' (should have listened harder to Josie explaining trackbacks, still don't think I get it) blog on the last session today. (Kris, thanks for shamelessly hiking the least comprehensible bit of my notes!!!!):By the way Apple have ins
Category: general

Quiet Coach

Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:14 P GMT+01
Oh dear. I’ve been sitting on this train for over two hours, facing the sign that says ‘From 11 December, we are moving the Quiet Coach from Coach D to Coach B. And finally, I get it. I paid a very small amount of attention coming out of KX when
Category: general

oops...

Thursday, 17 November 2005 10:00 P GMT+01
Er, for those of you not into the academics or technicalities of blogging or anything my-work-related, SORRY! Hang in there, and blonde rubbish will be right back with you shortly. (Though be warned, there's a pile more of this stuff to come)
Category: general

edublogs session 4

Thursday, 17 November 2005 3:43 P GMT+01
moodle lets you put rss feeds straight into it as little portal modules. ok, that's cool, but... it's moodle...feeds and aggregators (rss 2.0 (described as point two!!) and atom). information comes to you, to your desktop, webpage, aggregator. newsgr
Category: confs blogging

edublogs session 3

Thursday, 17 November 2005 2:57 P GMT+01
social networking tools and theories of learning (slides will be posted somewhere later)theory (ways of thinking, ways of knowing)practice (ways of doing)social networking tools - weblogscase study in distributed learningtheory (academic) and practic
Category: confs blogging

edublogs session 2

Thursday, 17 November 2005 1:04 P GMT+01
blah data. woss a blog. technorati (pronounced technocrarti, honest) comparison chart (if you have an A2 printer)public & ungated - do you want people to read what you're posting? (these slides)blogs are a 'key technology' in web 2.0. fantastic o
Category: confs blogging

edublogs session 1

Thursday, 17 November 2005 11:41 A GMT+01
Not a good start. Running late. Crap acoustics in the room. However we will have access all day, so I can update as I go along....
Category: blogging

[another] trip to london

Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:42 P GMT+01
You know sometimes I quite like London. Train on time (well, arriving, anyway), knew where I was going (mostly thanks to re-acquainting myself with Embankment tube for We're Not Afraid), hotel not bad (would have said great, but you should see where
Category: general

I blog, you blog, s/he blogs...

Wednesday, 16 November 2005 10:09 P GMT+01
When we started down this blog path, was there an end in sight? There was for the original one, with a defined intention (follow a research project), but not really for mine, and as I’ve just been discussing exit strategies at work and they’re up
Category: blogging

who are we?

Tuesday, 15 November 2005 11:21 P GMT+01
Oh hell. Now I've had someone else just say to me 'you know I'm not what/who you think I am, don't you?'. Here's me, who even thought it was a bit pretentious and American (sorry) to publish academically under my middle initial, makes no attempt to