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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Friday, August 15th, 2008
I often wonder about the way people use their computers. It's almost like they are arcane instruments that magically make information available with very little input from us.
A new e-mail message, for instance, may announce its arrival as we’re glancing over the latest headlines at a newspaper’s site. The result ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
August in Brisbane is perhaps the most annoying time of the year. It is dry, cold and I tend to get lots of static. Everytime I touch things, I get a shock. I've even managed to short out the touch pad on my laptop which isn't as bad as it ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
I'm currently preparing my lecture on Communication for first year Business Informatics students, and we touch upon Semiotics. Now, that's not an area that I have done a lot of research and reading or even contemplate much, except each semester when I prepare this lecture.
But I was thinking today, ...
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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
I came across Erica McWilliam's Unlearning how to teach ((McWilliam, Erica (2008) 'Unlearning how to teach', Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 45:3, 263 — 269)) the other day and just reading the abstract stirred my interest. The phrase meddler-in-the-middle launched itself at me like a beacon (not bacon) in ...
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