I tried installing the wikihow version of mediawiki software because it’s admired, and I need to know how it does some things. The nice people at wikihow have included what claims to be a compete bundle of all the skin modifications and extensions used by wikihow software in one big compressed file called wikihow-source-code.tar.gz So […]
Staff Blogging at the University of Herefordshire This video comes from Dr Andy Oliver, a member of the Flickr Classroom Displays group, via another more distant member of my network – Jen’s new Ning group, for professional development in her college. Real people using the power of Web2.0 and seeing its value for their own […]
What is London Overground There’s a little two carriage train that runs from Barking to Gospel Oak, and then on to Richmond or Kew Gardens. The route carefully skirts around the whole of central London, passing through reservoirs and industrial estates, over bridges, alongside cemeteries, with views of the backs of houses. Known as the […]
OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners, that allow developers to access core functions and information at social networks: Profile Information (user data) Friends Information (social graph) Activities (things that happen, News Feed type stuff) The details aren’t yet out so it’s possible that the Activities API […]
Explaining the crack People walk up and down along the length of the crack, and sometimes they cross it. Bending over and peering down into the abyss is popular too. Children like to walk with one foot on each bank of the gorge, like giants playing at trains. Those with a logical literal nature are […]
Today is Blog Action Day which means that lots of bloggers will be writing on one general topic for one day in an attempt to see what might be achieved through coordinated posting, and I am one of them so my humble contribution amongst the hundreds of thousands is entitled “individual action is not enough”. […]
Following on from the idea of theatre breaks in London, weekend breaks are slightly trickier when you work all through week and need to unwind fast. My suggestion therefore is to sneak away as early as possible on the Friday, arriving in plenty of time to get settled in at the hotel and then go […]
Song Thrush Pair on my Rowan Tree I think this is going to be the first bird blog here since A flock of Geese or Blackcap Warbler, because there’s rarely news and seldom photographs related to the appreciation of wildlife and birds. This morning I was delighted to have a brand new visitor to my […]
What are you trying to find out about Harvest Moon Time? Last night I looked up and noticed what looked to me like a full moon, but apparently it’s actually the Harvest Moon tonight, Wednesday September 26th. Harvest Moon is not just a fancy name for the full moon at around harvest time, it behaves […]
I’ve been kind of aware that there is another dreadful livestock disease called blue tongue or all-in-one-word bluetongue, mainly from reading the foot and mouth discussions and news. But it wasn’t until a confirmed case of bluetongue disease in the UK on the 22nd September that I sought to find out exactly what it is, […]
