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Barack Obama
It's 02:45 in the UK - and I'm about to head for bed, confident that Barack Obama will be a junior Senator for only a few hours more. The world could yet become a much better place. Wikipedia: "Barack...
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45 Years
American Rhetoric: Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have a Dream "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by...
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A peek at the future: Google Flu Trends
This sort of thing is seriously smart. And a real indication of where Google can go by using the "Wisdom of the Crowds" as evidenced by activity passing through its own search engines.Google Flu...
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From my iPhone
I now have a shiny new 3G iPhone - on the O2 PAYG contract. It really is a very impressive handheld computer. And it runs fully fledged apps for many purposes. Including an excellent blogging tool. But...
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Dilbert: Life, The Universe and Doctors
I'm married to a Doctor - so this struck a particular chord.
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A trip to Canberra in October 2009
I'm taking a trip to Canberra between October 4th and October 11th 2009. Australian School Business Administrators Conference 2009
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Ouch: Virtual Learning Environments are Expensive and Ineffective
Wow. According to the BBC, Ofsted have produced a hard-hitting assessment on the costs (high) and benefits (err, very few apparently) of the VLEs that we are all supposed to be purchasing. Some of the...
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How much ? NHS spends money like water on ICT
According to the Guardian "BT Group will next month become the third major contractor in as many years to take a multimillion pound writedown on its work with the government's crisis-stricken GDP12.7bn...
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Updating Old-Fashioned Technology
Just occasionally I find myself needing to revert to old technology. Like writing letters. Or sending faxes. Which is difficult if you are averse to paper. Step forward two cool services that make my...
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Total Eclipse of the Heart. As a Flowchart.
Loved this. Total Eclipse of the Heart. Found on Tumblr : Koufukuron
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Canberra, Australia - ASBA 2009
I've been speaking at the ASBA 2009 Conference in Canberra. Great fun and a great audience. I've promised to write up some of our discussions once I get home - and once I'm over the jet-lag. In the...
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Migration is not a crime
Migration is not a crime Originally uploaded by Steve Roe.Nice piece of counter-think. Photographed in Oxford.
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Nudge. Nudge. Wink. Wink. Make the World a Better Place.
Two thoughts: 1. nudge: A book that offers advice on how to improve decisions about health, wealth and happiness. 2. thefuntheory.com: A site dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is...
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Pub Quizes...
... are really difficult without Google.[Posted by Ian Yorston, via iPhone.]
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Rethinking the Classroom - Educating Hunters and Farmers
Words and ideas lifted from Seth Godin and Thom Hartmann. Godin is the author of Tribes, which I can highly recommend. ==== 10,000 years ago, civilization forked. Farming was invented and the way...
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