What to do at home in Swansea when your intranet’s unreachable

While working at home I wondered why I couldn’t connect to the new Plagiarism Awareness site recently announced by RSC Wales. Later I decided I’d do some work on Blackboard and found that I couldn’t connect. Odd, I thought! So I did a ping/traceroute and discovered that the Swansea.ac.uk domain is cut-off from the Internet (see Twitpic image below). My only choice is to walk in to work! A couple of minutes later...

October 2, 2009 · 1 min

I added my first Sidewiki comment

Appropriately enough added to my own [posterous.com](http://posterous.com) blog posting about Sidewiki. Unexpected, but perhaps not suprising, was the discovery that as a Google “customer”, you can post your comments to your Blogger blog(s)! Twitter, Facebook and other social sharing possibilities surely must be close behind. in reference to: > “In the latest update of the Google Toolbar (IE and FireFox …” > - [Google Sidewiki – Half baked but crispy](http://cpjobling.posterous.com/google-sidewiki-14) ([view on Google Sidewiki](http://www....

September 24, 2009 · 1 min

Google I/O 2009 - Google's HTML 5 Work: What's Next?

http://youtube.com/v/AusOPz8Ww80 I have a lecture next week which will discuss HTML markup. I have lots of notes and examples for XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2 which I think students should read through for some deeper learning rather than be presented in a lecture. I have instead decided to show [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siOHh0uzcuY). On searching,I also found this presentation from Google I/0 2009 (the Google developer’s conference) which talks about what’s coming next!...

September 23, 2009 · 1 min

Déjà vu all over again!

Last year I started my photo a day project with a snap of the flooded path from the University (where I work) to Brynmill (where I live). Here we are in a new year and once again it’s raining and the path across Singleton Park has become a river. A day to be enjoyed by only by Labradors. Autumn has come early this year and I’m wondering what happened to the summer!...

September 2, 2009 · 1 min

Season 2 Begins with Saint Barbara

Year 2: 1/365: Saint Barbara Originally uploaded by Chris P Jobling It would appear that I am addicted! After taking a couple of days off from my first 365 photos project, I am, like the best American television series, back for season two. So here is the first upload from a second year of “a photo a day”. The image, of Saint Barbara, parton saint of artillerymen, military engineers, miners and others who work with explosives …, and also of mathematicians [Wikipedia]...

September 1, 2009 · 1 min