It looks like the cancer is only developed in the tumour and hasn’t spread!!! Chemo starts the week after next and then probably an op in September. Thankyou so much for all your kind, thoughtful and amazing comments and emails. Have said it before and I’ll say it again, this is a pretty special place …
Yearly Archives: 2005
My Dad
My Dad is a pretty amazing person. He was the first kid from his school to ever go to University and completed a PhD in organic chemistry by the ridiculous age of 23-24. He lectured in Malta and then came back to England where he got a DipEd and eventually a Master of Education doing …
Upgrades and WordPress contact form plugin!
Thomas has been doing some serious backend work of late (do graphic designers do backend stuff ;) and has put in some interesting stuff, especially this nice simple WP contact form plugin. Good stuff!
Using podcasts in education
If you’ve been a reader for a while you’ve probably heard me banging on about how podcasting can save an enormous amount of money and drastically improve the quality of online audio for teaching and learning online…. well, here’s the most recent version which concludes my blogsavvy week of podcasts. Should be called your professional …
Match the music to the image…
“Today’s matching image to music, song is …gee this is more hard work than loading the images…well it’s: Play For Today – The Cure” [Into the Bungelow] Larger image and more.
Blogs @ Anywhere: High fidelity online communication
Here’s a paper (for review) Anne Bartlett-Bragg & I are submitting to ASCILITE 2005. If you fancy December in Brisbane they’ve just extended the deadline to 22nd July! Which means, I guess, we can improve on this… with your wonderful feedback :O) Abstract Since early 2001 several institutions and many individual teachers have incorporated blogging …
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Optus Cable & Port 25…. gah x 20
OK, so not entirely offline… Have just got optus cable at the new pad , wonderful stuff getting 220 – 660 kbps but have just found out that they block port 25 so I can’t send incsub (or anything other than optusnet) email. Crazy huh! I s’pose I could send through optusnet with the reply …
Week off
Just so you know… I’m offline this week moving into / renovating! Anything urgent you can contact me on +61 (0)405 703 923 I’m pretty, um, busy…
subverted links
Couros Blog » Blog Archive » Doing Research: A Tool InventoryGreat inventory of open source and proprietary tools for the contemporary researcher!
Losing your job for promoting open source???
Blimey, this isn’t good: “I lost my job today. The main reasons stated were that my opinions expressed in this blog, in that wiki, and in day to day communications with staff, contradicted the directions of the unit I was working within. Of course these reasons alone, as I put them, would not be enough …
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