ICALT 2007 – Two steps behind

So the ICALT conference is over for another year. It’s an interesting event that tries to bring together researchers from both east and west, and for the most part it succeeds – the mixture of presenters is about half and half and there is a lot of opportunity to meet people from countries that in […]

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ICALT 2007, Japan – a shaky start

I’m off on my travels again, this time to sunny (well, luke warm and sticky) Japan, and the International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) 2007, held in Niigata on the north coast. It was an interesting start to the trip. Just after we landed in Tokyo the Niigata area was hit by a 6.7 […]

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Launchy

I’m quite bare-bones when it comes to my PC. I go through the damn things like a wrecker ball in PC world and so cant be bothered to personalise them much. As a result I use them pretty much out of the box, so I’m not a big fan of fiddly little productivity apps. However, […]

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