In the last few weeks I’ve been getting bored with Windows XP (my OS of lack of choice) and have had a bit of a roving eye, sneaking lusty glances over the shoulders of Mac users and hanging around in dodgy Windows Vista galleries ogling Aero through the glass. Having decided that I cant really […]
Year: 2007
ICALT Japan Photos
I’ve had a chance to organise my photos since coming back from Japan, and also had a chance to play with Picasa(which as you’d expect is very polished and nicely integrates with all Google’s other goodies). Turns out that we’ve all been busy little photo sharers: Dave’s Photos Hugh’s Photos Maurice’s Photos Alex’s album Especially […]
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 […]
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 […]
More symphonic metel madness
In the last month or so I’ve been listening to the new albums from Within Temptation and Lacuna Coil. I’ve discovered both of these bands in the last year and subsequently realised that they are already massively popular just out of earshot, which is always mildly disappointing, but it hasn’t stopped me enjoying their new […]
Spiderman 3
At last I had a chance to see the Summer’s big film (well – May’s big film) in the form of Spiderman 3: Spiderman vs the icky-black-goo thing and the sandpit dude. I have low expectations of superhero films; for years I was convinced that if only they treated the subject matter with seriousness, as […]
We have met the enemy and he is us
I know that I’m just another liberal lefty academic but all the same I was very impressed with this piece by the historian Chalmers Johnson on the current path of the American Empire. Occasionally I watch some 1970’s American TV show or film and am reminded of how much we (meaning the British public) used […]
You will soon be able to download music online!
Yes, folks – hidden away in the depths of the BBC technology pages is the revelation that at last, after years of false starts and obfuscation, you will finally be able to legally download music online. Of course, many people falsely believe that they can already download music. They are sadly mistaken. The current set […]