MS Frontpage was long known (and often derided) for its tendency to walk all over web standards. It looks like this is about to change. [Best Tech Videos On The Net](http://www.bestechvideos.com/) (which incidentally is a great place for finding new Tech Videos) has just published a set of videos and demos from [Microsoft MIX07](http://visitmix.com/). One of these that I’ve just watched concerns how the new version of [Microsoft Visual Studio (ORCAS)](http://www.

Another hero on video. This time Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the WikiWikiWeb, interviewed by John Gage of Sun Microsystems at the Computer History Museum. As well as Wiki, Ward discusses other key developments, such as Class-Resources-Collaboration (CRC) cards, Software Design Patterns and Extreme Programming. http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-7739076742312910146&hl=en-GB

While doing some vaguely formulated research today (it is a Bank Holiday so vagueness is allowed!), I did a search for Wiki on [Google video](http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q=wiki) today and came across this video of a presentation by Jeremy Ruston (developer of [TiddlyWiki](http://www.tiddlywiki.com/)) recorded (I believe – the video description is a bit unclear) at a meeting on social software held in Vienna last year. You can’t see the slides, but it is clear that, for documentation, Jeremy has no love for the standard office tools and makes a good case for [wikis](http://www.

[](http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/cpjobling/FreshAndCrispy/photo?authkey=heoth6zZyFY#5066259224770454226) Me wearing my birthday present Ahlem sent me a Birthday present which I’m wearing in this picture. I’m watching the FA cup final. The text, which comes from an episode of the Simpsons is: C:/DOS C:/DOS/RUN RUN/DOS/RUN Renate took the photo!

Today, I’ve been mostly watching Google videos! Aside from the previously blogged video on the death of the desktop I’ve also watched Brion Vibber’s Google Tech Talk on Wikipedia and the MediaWiki software that drives it. Also from Google Video was this Documentary on Open Source available on Google Video: > “Revolution OS is a 2001 documentary which traces the history of GNU, Linux, and the open source and free software movements.

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/).

Upgrading Ubuntu is apparently only possible using the alternative CD or over the network. Having tried and failed to leap over 6.10 to install directly from the 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” release onto my old laptop I reinstalled 6.06 LTS “Dapper Drake” with a separate home partition (an implicit recommendation that doesn’t seem to be the default) with the intention of upgrading. The recommendation would appear to be to do this release by release.

Liberty Crowd Originally uploaded by Chris P Jobling. Neath-Swansea Ospreys just managed to beat Leinster 19-17 in their final home game of the 2006-2007 season. Still a slim chance of winning the Magners’ League,