Joining the 21st century

Recently we moved to Wiltshire, a beautiful county, but one which has only recently discovered electricty (and some of the locals still arent convinced). With a bit of effort we managed to find an ISP with telephone wires at least nearby, but it has taken us a lot longer to sort out our television reception. […]

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Hypertext Conference 2007

I’ve been on my travels for a while, culminating this week in Manchester, where I attended the ACM Hypertext Conference. Hypertext is a smaller gathering than it used to be and in recent years has been in danger of becoming a fringe event, however this year numbers were up and the conference felt very positive. […]

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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 […]

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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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