Well, what’s worse than only being able to get online for 30 mins a day… howabout a combination of Windows / Phoenix wiping all you application data… emails.. EVERYTHING… because you had the cheek to hibernate with a few applications running and then restart with a weak wireless connection.
So, am going to get to spend the rest of my time in NZ figuring out how to manage this… bugger.
Update: Silly me, just XP corrupting my local settings… which I could fix if I had admin on this computer… but as it’s a works one, I naturally don’t. Sigh!
Lack of admin rights on your machine - typical of the ‘Vlad the Enforcer’ attitude that IT departments take (particularly your employer I know from bad/sad experience).
The first rule of IT management appears to be to prevent the user doing anything interesting at all - particularly those who are interested and technically proficient.
I’m all for an SOE (although I never liked Phoenix) but IT depts have to recognise that they have users with different capabilities and grant admin permissions appropriately.
Just a bit of a hobby horse for me I’m afraid.
Am glad it’s not only me!
Daily Edublogging Update — March 20, 2006
Here’s a summary of ideas and conversations from the edublogging community that have captured our attention in the past 48 hours.
MobileEd has a nice post on the use of smart phones in project-based learning (thanks to George Siemens for the link). T…