Well well. I've been in secondlife again this week. And far from falling out of windows, bumping into doors, and generally being exceedingly pathetic, I've been having fun. This is not a work entry, and I'm not going to start being boring

Ha. Check out my today's horoscope from Google:You are running into a stone wall and there doesn't seem to be much you can do about it. You aren't going to climb over it as a Mountain Goat might try. This obstacle is substantial, yet cert

Just to say I'm off to Boston for the BbWorld conference. I'm torn between where I blog, because we need to blog loads more at work, so I'm going to attempt to blog there instead of here, but if you come here looking, you'll no doubt

Yuch. I've been on the go since half past four this morning. That's over 18 hours ago  I've been to Bristol to the JISC e-pedagogy experts meeting. It was an interesting trip. Well, no, actually it was an interesting trip.

People often seem a little confused about how I do what I do with a background like my background. It all seems pretty logical in small steps when it's explained, but I still think there are many who can't get their head around a medieval his

Well well. A nicely articulated thought for the day for IT in academia. Certainly we should no longer be testing students ability to hand-write legibly for three hours, when we do not require it of them in the rest of life (and word processed essays

Watch out webconference companies, there's a new player on the big stage. Marratech (which we like) has been bought by Google. (Can't believe I beat Ian to this!!)

In the conclusion of my MA dissertation on digital editions of manuscripts, I wrote that perhaps the neck and eye strain felt by today's screen readers was akin to that felt by the faithful craning up to decipher stained glass windows. In this m

Well apparently it's nearly here: the laptop which one day will cost only $100. I'm intrigued about a few aspects - is there really a third way after windows and apple (or fourth, if you count linux)? Is a 366 power going to be enough (I remember my

Our University Library has started a new help chat service using meebo. <!-- Beginning of meebo me widget code. Want to talk with visitors on your page? Go to http://www.meebome.com/ and get your widget! -->

Ooh. Couldn't help overseeing this (sorry Greg), thought I better go check it out... V interesting. Could be huge, from the imagined potential. Looks like it's still in development. I'm wondering if it's available to me, but I think I'm going to try

Tags or categories? Paul has started a blog. Which looks, like Andy's podcasting one, quite different from mine. I can't see the same templates, only the ones I had to choose from to start with. I've been thinking again recently as to how I'd remodel

Classic description of a day just like one we spent in Second Life in the summer, when Kattan Honung and Porly Tang stepped out into second life. A soooooo frustrating afternoon. Personally, I never worked out how to fly properly. And being the kind

Brr. Today is the Chicago marathon, and since I was awake at 5 am again, I got up and watched everyone past at the 2 mile mark. 37 degrees in old money, plus (or minus) the wind chill factor and it's trying to snow. There is a trememdous range o

Soooo, Google got YouTube faster than Yahoo got Facebook. They even posted a little video looking as smug as someone who just pocketed £400m saying thankyou very much we couldn't have done this without the community. Right! I'm guessing that th

aaargh. stupid bloody idiots. which bit of monthly notifications, emailed instructions and face to face tellings of i am going to switch off the digital drop box is to be interpreted as let's go off half way round the world and teach anothe

Hurr@h. My feet @re killing me! We've h@d the most enormous fun @ll week h@nding out sweets to new students. Not just @ny sweets, either. E@T sweets!!!! Too tired to say more, but check out the photos. We should have taken more, @s we re@lise we shou

Bah. I hate playing catchup, and I do it too frequently. My team has yet to embrace podcasting properly. Possibly because currently only I know much about it, and that isn't a great deal either. However, Pauls will begin to play catchup from next mon

Oh my good lord. Facebook has just exploded in the UK.

Had to happen - staggered really it took so long. My little duo has all growed up.

Ian sent me this yesterday (thankyou). Interesting take on the how-do-people-see-you-reflected-in-facebook issue. Or rather, interesting way of dealing with it. So I thought  I'd share with you my groups of the week: In third place: We've done t

Oh for goodness' sake. Funny how you get used to stuff, isn't it?! We have WordPress installed at work, and I have one at home I'd tried with totest the install. It's worse than blogger to use. Apart from all the stuff I can't do, it's such a faff to

Those of you who were in Edinburgh last week will like this. When I got to work this morning, Debra was doing her 'loitering with intent' thing outside my door. 'When is a good idea a great idea?', she said. ... And g

Now, personally, I don't currently iTune. Don't ask me why. Ok, ask me why. I installed it when I first got my mp3 player and I was trying to learn how to rip cds, and couldn't. After Real, and then Windows Media Player, it was the lat

No, I know you won't believe that I've done it so soon, but let's face it, if I hadn't, it wasn't going to happen was it? I haven't pasted in the abstracts, like I've done before, you'll have to cross reference, though Ive no idea how long the confer