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Today’s letter to NatWest, through their on-line comments form. This kind of thing pisses me off to no end. It just speaks of all kinds of poor practice on the part of the developers of NatWest’s online service, that they couldn’t build an account management interface that won’t work on anything but (let me get this . . . → Read More: NatWest can bite my … Today was my first meeting with my full committee; here at UKC, we only have two other members on your committee (other than your supervisor). This is smaller than a committee you might typically encounter in the States, but I think that’s just fine. The conversation from the meeting I want to focus on for the . . . → Read More: PhD Committee Meeting: What is your thesis? In another day or so I’ll post some preliminaries from my lit-review work; in particular, the pretty pictures that I’ve created by graphing the relationships between all the papers in my review. For the moment, I should note that poster is a very keen little GPLed piece of software. It takes a Postscript document, and will tile . . . → Read More: poster A new resources section has been added: Resources for Research and Writing. Contributed by a colleague, Ralph Miarka. I imagine this one growing and splitting into several sections . . . → Read More: New Resources Scott Rosenberg is the managing editor of Salon.com, a best-of-breed online magazine/newspaper. On the 17th, he wrote an essay titled Eve of Destruction. As an example of the kinds of responses he received, we can read a response from Rich Santalesa, who has worked in and around the software journalism industry. No doubt inspired by like . . . → Read More: Rosenberg and Replies This post is something I may want to come back to later; its a personal placeholder for an idea, I guess. While brainstorming with a few colleagues on a ride to dinner the other evening, I wondered how you could develop a highly distributed, incredibly cheap, wireless network. Or, put another way, I wondered how I . . . → Read More: Gossip Protocols and Massively Distributed Networks Two months ago I caught a comment from Seb to check out the Educational Blogger’s Network. I haven’t had time to follow up on this, due to travel, writing, and other things. I started digging around the web regarding weblogs in education (I was a regular reader of SIT for a long time) and was amazed . . . → Read More: Communities within Communities I think this week will mostly be about getting my house in order. I’ve been cleaning at home, backing things up on the Mac, organizing my electronic life (on three different systems, in two countries)… all important, but seemingly secondary to the work I “should be doing.” I will, sometime in the next week or two, roll . . . → Read More: Cleaning, CS-ED tools update coming Lisa, one of my colleagues abroad, asked a question which a number of people have asked at one point or another: <QUOTE>what is the “view from the ground” in britain vis bush’s latest maneuvers? all we hear is that “Blair backs Bush despite overwhelming public opposition ” and that 2 cabinet members resigned in protest.</QUOTE> They don’t like . . . → Read More: This war has been brought to the world in your name (A summary of the resources linked to in this document can be found in the CS-ED.org resources hierarchy, under All About Weblogging. In a pinch, you can just work your way through it, without my commentary below…) You heard about CS-ED.org, either from me or a colleague. Or, perhaps you stumbled on it from somewhere else on . . . → Read More: Getting Started @ CS-ED.org |
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