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Today I introduced blogging to my students in EG-259.

As noted in a previous post, I am working on a 365 photos project and that means that I al ways have a camera with me and need to find a suitable subject every day. This one didn’t make it into today’s selection but I still quite like it. Your mission, should you choose to accept, it is to identify the spot in the University where this historic entrance to the Arts faculty is located....

The BBC Proms Season ended with a bang in Singleton Park last night as the Fireworks, launched during the Welsh National Anthem, brought to an end a great concert of Italian Music and Neopolitan songs. The BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, conducted by David Charles Abell and Soloists Rebecca Evans (Three Costume Changes!) and Alfie Boe kept us all entertained for the three hours of the concert itself and the rehersals, which as early arrivals, we also got to see....

[](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bnNGgqRugY/SMl2tc3bsOI/AAAAAAAAEnM/mPFuLuq56Q8/s1600-h/Beach,+Sea+and+Clouds.jpg) Today we took a walk along the Beach. It was late evening, just before sunset and the clouds, sea and sand made for some dramatic images. The full set are to be seen on [Picasa](http://picasaweb.google.com/cpjobling/BeachSeaAndClouds). [](http://picasa.google.com/blogger/)

One of the nice features of the newly released beta of Google Chrome is the feature that makes it easy to convert a tab into a standalone desktop application shortcut which you can add to your desktop, quick launch and start menu. I’ve already gotten Google Reader, Flickr and Zoho Docs “application-i-fied”, and no doubt Facebook, Google Docs, and my other frquently-used web apps will follow. A major advantage of this is that the applications launch in their own independent windows whereas links launch in tabs in a separate instance of the Chrome browser....