Fabulous piece in the SitePoint Design View newsletter today. Comic Sans is the font that we all hate – right? And yet it won’t die. No school web site or newsletter is fit for purpose without it. It’s used a lot by a lot of people in a lot of places. I trained (years ago)…
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Always wear clean underwear in public…
From our fridge. (no idea how it got there…. Mrs. W?) Always wear clean underwear in public, especially when working under your vehicle. From the Daily News comes this story of a Stockton-on-Tees couple who drove their car to ASDA, only to have their car break down in the car park. The man told his…
Some vaguely consistent threads around education in my morning procrastination break. – bengoldacre
I liked this thought… I suspect the bigger issue is that were living through a technological revolution, which creates changes in what can be cognitively outsourced and whats worth learning, and where some people can press ahead by leaving out the pointless stuff. via Some vaguely consistent threads around education in my morning procrastination break….
Dear Auditors, I present: Charlie Brooker
Want to read this article? Then enter your password via Charlie Brooker | Want to read this article? Then enter your password | Comment is free | The Guardian. Forgotten your password? That’ll be the 58th one you’ve not remembered this year, then. In days of yore, we’re told, people had less leisure time because…
User manuals – don’ts and dos
Sometimes you don’t need a user manual… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk] and sometimes you do… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TSgvS8ASek] I prefer systems like the first one.
Web Sequence Diagrams
Have been following up a tweet from fooflington… yes it does seem rather cool. With <I’m no expert> applied, I’ve been playing too… Here’s the text that generated it: user->form: provides feedback activate form form->form: validate form–>user: request amends alt if ‘content’ selected form->dept: email dept note right of dept left with dept to sort…
Assistant Director of IT Development – University of Kent
I have a new job. Following interviews on the 24th I was fortunate enough to be selected for the new role of Assistant Director of IT Development in Information Services at the University of Kent. This is the first stage of some restructuring for IS. I’m looking forward to working with everyone that will part…
Mittuniversitetet
Just back from a quick trip to Mid Sweden University (or Mittuniversitetet). We were at the Östersund campus which is a little further north than the two other campuses, Härnösand and Sundsvall. [googlemaps http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=university&hl=en&cd=1&ei=xQiIS8yFG5i5jAefutzSBg&sig2=SBuv3Z6yVpOfRIj2s9Xcmw&sll=63.177038,14.651163&sspn=0.015108,0.03721&ie=UTF8&view=map&cid=16486601166023273433&hq=university&hnear=&t=h&ll=63.188134,14.648895&spn=0.102517,0.274658&iwloc=A&output=embed&w=425&h=350] Östersund is described as ‘the number one winter city’ and it was certainly picturesque – covered in snow and fairly chilly…
“Come help make the video to demonstrate the ROI of social media in higher ed”
via http://twitter.com/timeshighered/status/9336576439 RT @markgr: #highered peeps – Come help make the video to demonstrate the ROI of social media in higher edhttp://bit.ly/aVYj8m #hesmroi Based on this idea… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypmfs3z8esI]
New host
I *think* I’ve just finished transferring this blog from my own hosted version to the WordPress.com one. The aim being to not have to update the code anymore – it was boring and I’m a bit lazy! The main difference is the template, since WordPress.com didn’t have the one I was using. I suppose I…