…and everyone else coming to my site because they are learning about kittens.
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From the monthly archives:
October 2006
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Fire I, originally uploaded by sharply_done.
Last Saturday my family took part in the Public Dreams Society’s wonderful Parade of Lost Souls event — think Day of the Dead on the Canadian west coast.
I have no [...]
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Second Real, originally uploaded by stevegarfield.
“Education is learning what you didn’t even know.” — Daniel Boorstin
I’m arriving very late to the Second Life party for a number of reasons. For one, my bent [...]
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One of the best things about working at a big university is the abundance of cool stuff happening across campus, though it’s always a challenge to keep up with it all. I’ve been meaning to throw up a blog post on GUSSE (Global Urban Sustainability Solutions Exchange) for a few weeks now. It’s one of [...]
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…just another day in the onward march toward technotopia.
“There is a new gold rush and it’s for the set of basic ideas underlying the software we all use and depend upon. ” — Al Essa
“If you’re interested in “Presenting Applications in an Interactive Service”, “Storing Data in an Interactive Network”, “Presenting Advertising in an Interactive [...]
Allow me to add my own shout-out for the eminent wikiologist Stewart Mader today, as it marks the publication of his book/wiki hybrid Using Wiki in Education, a welcome contribution to the canon.
What’s most notable about the book is its emphasis on actual uses of wikis in diverse educational settings, in the voices of the [...]
A quick follow-up to yesterday’s post. I linked to Robert Wyatt’s Wikipedia entry, which contains this fascinating tidbit on the events subsequent to the 1974 accident that left him paralysed, ending his drumming career but not his musical one:
Later that same year he put out a single, a cover version of “I’m a Believer”, [...]
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Time is short, and the mindqueue of unposted blog entries continues to mount.
On the weekend, my music and martini guru Bill played me a lot of great stuff through his audiophile hi-fi that makes me drool every time I’m near it. Ecstatic and awash in sound, I made him play and re-play Robert Wyatt’s [...]
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Forest Sciences Centre, originally uploaded by Cyprien.
Some things are so good you just gotta do them three times.
Indeed, for the third year running we are going to crank up the Northern Voice weblog conference, two [...]
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