Category Archives: theviewfromhere

11 January 2008
1:37 pm
by: David

The truth about Facebook?

Time to reconsider your Facebook account. In the past Echelon, Crucible and others have been secretly gathering data on everyone for years. Now the only difference is we’re willingly giving our personal data away.

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8 September 2007
2:19 pm
by: David

First crop of the potato harvest

Nice crop of spuds after our first year in our new garden. There’s twice as many still to dig up! Won’t be buying spuds for a while. We’re still picking spinach and tomatoes too. And there’s leeks, carrots, beetroot and … Continue reading →

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8 September 2007
7:56 am
by: David

Amazing dynamic fluid image resizing

This is just the coolest new software I’ve seen for a long time. These guys have created a method for image resizing using a technique they call seam carving. The effect is that images resize, either scaling down or incredibly … Continue reading →

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11 August 2007
2:25 pm
by: David

So It Goes Anthony H Wilson

Very sad to hear that Anthony H Wilson has died aged 57. His death is the biggest loss to British music since the death of John Peel. I’ve enjoyed Tony Wilson‘s TV shows & appearances and especially the bands on … Continue reading →

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2 July 2007
9:45 pm
by: David

Correspondence old style with Postcrossing

This is a wonderfully simple back to basics idea. You register on Postcrossing.com to get a random postal address from any one of 25,000 other registered users spread across 144 countries. Then you send them a good ol’ fashioned postcard. … Continue reading →

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30 June 2007
3:33 pm
by: David

Escape from Glasgow and close shave in London

I was presenting at a very interesting JISC CETIS meeting at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow yesterday. More about that later. But the news today is that a Jeep Cherokee was apparently deliberately set on fire and crashed into … Continue reading →

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17 June 2007
10:03 am
by: David

Get a First Life

Sorry, can’t resist posting this either (thanks Cath). First Life is an 3D analog world where server lag doesn’t exist. Features include – “Find our where you actually live”, “Fornicate using your actual genitals”, “Go outside, membership is free”. Sounds … Continue reading →

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15 June 2007
9:52 pm
by: David

In the future we the people will be web 2.0 ready

A year ago this month I wrote the edublog simile generator. I’ve not sought its wisdom for some time but as I’ve been struggling with some edublogging nonsense recently I thought I’d look it up to get some inspiration. It’s … Continue reading →

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15 June 2007
1:17 pm
by: David

Second Life – your experience may vary

I was planning a serious piece about the educational uses of Second Life, not least because a session from the recent JISC online conference was conducted in SL. This is an interesting example and something that deserves proper discussion. I … Continue reading →

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15 February 2007
10:28 pm
by: David

Getting the URL of an email message in mail.app using AppleScript

I’ll not tell you how much time I’ve wasted trying to find a way of using AppleScript to generate a link (file path or URL) to an individual email message in Mail.app. There are a number of solutions on the … Continue reading →

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