Archive for the ‘Ramblings’ Category
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Actually, it's not dead. It's alive and kicking. Mike talks about it here. We do not like to be offended. We do not like to be different. Ken talks about being different here. Yeah, but no.
I suppose we should be grown ups, as Ken suggests. I suppose we should protect ...
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
I've been reading up (again) on Project Xanadu again for MWT ((Mobile Workforce Technologies)). This forms part of the history of hypertext. But I always feel a dis-ease at some of the concepts embodied in that 'proposal'. According to the page at Wikipedia, one of the 17 Rules of Xanadu ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Funniest thing I've read all day. In amongst dealing with lots of (exactly the same) news reports about the Beijing Ticketing Scam for my paper on Online Reading (almost finished), I came across this little gem from Adrianne Pecotic, executive director of Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT):
but movie ...
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
I've had a post in process for over a week now, but with all the preparations for the new semester, it sits there, alone, uncared for, bereft of my attention. There seems to be times where I put heaps of effort into things and other things get neglected. It's strange, ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
My favourite story as a child was one of Dr Seuss's stories was The Glunk That Got Thunk. I have been trying and trying to find this and when I noticed a whole swag of Seuss books in the local bookshop, I went on a search to find that ...
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