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Back in 1998/1999 I supervised a couple of project students (who have gone onto bigger and brighter things) in the development of some multimedia resources to support a course in operating systems. The most recent version of the course is available here....more...
Problem: Implement a rotating banner image on this blog which is hosted by Wordpress.com. This means I cannot install any Wordpress themes that automatically support bnner rotation (e.g. the Mandigo theme suggested by Will Taylor....more...
Update: The old server that I used to use for my website and also to implement the rotating banner on this blog, is down. It will likely to be down for quite some time....more...
In mid to late October 2008 I moved my long-term personal website to this blog, the early story is told here. One of my concerns voiced in that original post was to maintain by Google ranking. Here's an update....more...
I don't like to brag, but you don't get this sort of thing all that often....more...
Today we were due to receive visitors who were going to stay with us for the next few days. My PhD supervisor (and fellow ICIS'2008 attendee) and her husband were due to arrive around 10:30. So Sandy and I spent a lazy morning inside reading and waiting for them to arrive. Of course, we hadn't provided all the necessary instructions and had them waiting on the sidewalk for a bit before getting inside....more...
After our big night out at Lasserre Saturday morning saw us walking down to the Musee D'Orsay....more...
Friday night we were booked in to eat at Lasserre. A two-star Michelin restaurant of the haute cuisine style....more...
This presentation by Dave Thomas talks about the Dreyfuss Model of Skill Aquisition and how it applies to software development. However, the ideas and insights seem to apply to a number of other contexts, in particularly learning and teaching at Universities. I certainly found a lot of points that resonated....more...
After our flight we spent the afternoon of the 12th wondering around Paris, seeing what we could see. The plane was mostly to look at the Champs Elysees and the Eiffel Tower....more...
After much shopping (mostly winter clothes - much needed and used already) and a bit of time in the QClub - time to get back on a plane for the 13+ hours to London. The upgrade to Business didn't come through but the nice check in lady from Brisbane had put us in the next best thing. A row of seats behind a partition that meant we had enough room to our legs out straight. Very nice. Both Sandy and I slept a reasonable amount for this type of thing. Watched a number of movies and basically waited for the flight to be over....more...
For the purposes of informing my family and keeping a record for my faulty memory I am going to blog, where possible, Sandy's and my trip to Paris for ICIS'2008. This first installment is from the start of the travel in Struck Oil through to the QANTAS Club in Singapore Airport....more...
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As part of my current work I provide support to academic staff using a learning management system. The reactive part of this support is funneled though an organisational helpdesk that is run along fairly common IT helpdesk processes and uses a fairly common enterprise helpdesk application....more...