In this video, recorded at Google and released as a [TechTalk Video](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6856727143023456694), Aza Raskin from [Humanized](www.humanized.com), the company behind [Enso](http://www.humanized.com/products/), tells us what the next user interface technology may look like. http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-6856727143023456694&hl=en Powered by [ScribeFire](http://scribefire.com/).
Just a quickie to note that this blog has had a name check in the Swansea Learning Lab Blog in an article about Bloggers at Swansea U. It’ll be interesting to see if I get any more visitors and comments. And for those of you who are wondering, the the title is a pun!
I have created a Google Code project for the continued development of one of my project student’s projects (A Module Catalogue for my School). This is the first of (I hope) many Google Hosted projects that will provide my students with valuable experience in the use of modern software project development tools.
Just watched a [fascinating video](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5078334075080674416) of a new gesture-based writing system called Dasher on Google Tech Talks. Dasher is a writing system which uses information theoric concepts to allow the user to steer through an emerging web of possible word completions. Developed at Cambridge University and demonstrated by Dave McKay, [Dasher](http://www.dasher.org.uk/) is seen as a tool with immediate applicability for mobile phone users as an alternative to predictive texting and for people with disabilities....
I completed the installation of Ubuntu 7.04 [started yesterday](http://crispyj2.blogspot.com/2007/05/upgrading-ubuntu.html) and it worked across the network just fine. I then installed [Automatix2](http://www.getautomatix.com/) as recommended by [Geertjan](http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/ubuntu_7_04_beryl_streaming) and installed a bunch of development tools (Java 6, Eclipse, Netbeans). Interesting to note that the Automatix2 Eclipse bundle seems to have been tuned for Linux development and comes with PyDev, various Apache Commons libraries, Ant etc. Pity the Windows version doesn’t! Powered by [ScribeFire](http://scribefire.com/).