Funny things happen when you go back to work after being on leave for a week. I returned this morning to a colleague presenting me with a mystery. Turns out one of the public computers was acting up….nothing new, they always get a bashing. However this time things typed by staff on a computer, aboutContinueContinue reading “Avoiding Rocket Science – slide 1”
Category Archives: PERSONAL
occupational therapy lecture
Just like last year, I gave my lecture about my life with disability and the things I’ve learnt along the way to a class of OT students at UNISA a couple weeks ago. Another big group and two hours trying talk loud as I could meant I was buggered aftewards but very fulfilled. I changedContinueContinue reading “occupational therapy lecture”
When work is no longer meaningful
Hugh wrote something the other day that stopped me in my tracks. The reason being is it hits pretty close to the bone on a bit of what I’ve been feeling in the fallout. Meaningful Work or Death. Any other form of existence doesn’t interest me. Thanks Be To God. What happens when work noContinueContinue reading “When work is no longer meaningful”
My first appearance in an online video
I don’t believe it. Mike has unearthed a video online over at googlevideo of him and I presenting at the Connecting Up conference earlier this year. I knew these things would be used for unsavoury purposes, but never dreamt it would be this shocking! Dave
Down and out in paradise
Being the IT guy, at work I’m usually kept in the back corner office beavering away keeping the electrons zooming for the rest of the plebs sitting at the ends of the 10Base100. Meanwhile I know we have many any varied public come off the streets and into our building to use our free publicContinueContinue reading “Down and out in paradise”
Happy Anniversary to me
19 September 1981, 25 years. I survived a quarter century. I’m pleased.
Between a laugh and a tear
Well it would seem I’m slowing climbing out from whatever rock it was that landed on me. For those not in the know, I had what the Doctor termed an ’emotional breakdown’ and what I termed ‘falling apart’ about 6 weeks ago. I ended up in hospital for chest pain and stayed there a fewContinueContinue reading “Between a laugh and a tear”
88 Lines to cheer my day
Trust Kent to be the one to cheer my day. He’s written a mock opera of 88 lines about 44 bloggers….and I get a mention. Thanks Kent…..you have no idea how it helps.
Hospital Haiku
While in hospital for a few days I’ve decided to write some Haiku. Nurse Heiki is to blame! So the first is inspired by her: Haiku Not Heiki nurse is dangerous who without a heart indulged does pretend to care This was inspired by the mobile phone doing the data connection being flat: No PowerContinueContinue reading “Hospital Haiku”
Life Short Call Now
Bruce has a new album out…Life Short Call Now…can’t wait to hear it. Got no city, got no land Got no lover, got no wife How many ways to say goodbye Can one man fit in a nomad life? Life short-call now”
The bricks came down
Mohandas Gandi is quoted as saying: “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win” when describing the stages of establishment resistence to a winning strategy of nonviolent activism. If you’ve been reading, or better still, listening to the Extraordinary Everyday Lives podcast, you’ll know I’ve been battlingContinueContinue reading “The bricks came down”
Comment moderation tips
Getting people commenting on your blog is a wonderful thing. However we need to be aware of the environment in which blogs exist. Recently JP was talking about Sleeper Spam on blogs. It made me think about writing down the internal process I go through in my head when it comes to approving comments onContinueContinue reading “Comment moderation tips”
At the Mixed Reality Meetup in Second Life
I spent the morning on Second Life meeting with others from around the world involved in non profit ventures. There was a heap of people there and it got quite crowded and noisy from the typing. Unfortunately the audio wasn’t great so I had a bit of trouble hearing and staying engaged. It didn’t helpContinueContinue reading “At the Mixed Reality Meetup in Second Life”
Is Doc Searls a fashion model for Second Life?
So as readers would be aware from here, here, here and here, I’ve been dsipping my virtual feet into Second Life. A story behind the news is when first landing in SL, my repressed 70’s leanings emerged and I decked myself out with a standard issue tie dye shirt that SL has in their inventory.ContinueContinue reading “Is Doc Searls a fashion model for Second Life?”
Mixed-up Reality Meet-up
Techsoup.org are having a mixed reality meetup in SecondLife on 18th. Beth has all the info. over on her blog. I’m intending to be there virtually and I knew Mike would be interested so I helped him get into SL and ramped up last night so if we get the chance we can go there.ContinueContinue reading “Mixed-up Reality Meet-up”
Ewan’s lucky dip
Ewan Spence, extreme podcaster , is moving house and instead of moving stuff he’s selling it to anyone who’ll pay 5 pounds – only you don’t know what you’ll get. It’s called… “Win Ewan’s Stuff” and you’ll find mroe details on my blog http://www.ewanspence.com/blog/2006/07/02/win-my-stuff-everyone-gets-a-prize/ Basically, anyone in the world can Paypal me £5, and I’llContinueContinue reading “Ewan’s lucky dip”
Craigslist, Second Life and the law – disability, society and openness.
I see via tech.meme and outlined over on law.com that the net community is struggling with issues of discrimination with a law suit that’s been filed against the popular online classifieds site, Craigslist. To fill you in from law.com: Google, Amazon.com, AOL and Yahoo are helping defend online peer Craigslist against a lawsuit that wouldContinueContinue reading “Craigslist, Second Life and the law – disability, society and openness.”
Dancing
Yep, I’ve been line dancing……in Second Life. Sad, isn’t it.
Silliman reads Confused who reads Lifekludger
Dunno who Silliman is exactly, except he has many followers and a wikipedia entry. But he lists the “Confused of Calcutta” blogroll as one he likes a lot. And I’m on that roll, well my Lifekludger blog, with lotsa other good blogs, so that makes me feel happy…..in a sort of ‘second degree of seperation’ContinueContinue reading “Silliman reads Confused who reads Lifekludger”
Point 13
Back in 2003 Scoble wrote his 20 point “Corporate Weblog Manifesto”. Point 13 says: 13) If your life is in turmoil and/or you’re unhappy, don’t write. When I was going through my divorce, it affected my writing in subtle ways. Lately I’ve been feeling a lot better, and I notice my writing and readership qualityContinueContinue reading “Point 13”
BlogFlowers
Came across this neat site that creates a graphical representation of a website. WebsitesAsGraphs is what it’s called. I pointed it at a few sites, including this one, lifekludger, TPN and our Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show site and came up with these you can see on this Flicker page. It occured to me that, asContinueContinue reading “BlogFlowers”
Re-presenting – Two presentations in three days
This week Mike (Seyfang) and I have been on the heady Adelaide talk circuit. Silicon valley’s got nothin on us! [grin] [mike and dave at adelaide uni – 7-6-06] We’ve been presenting our ‘Building communities through weBLOGS and PodCasts’ talk we first did at ConnectingUp at the beginning of May. This last Monday we presentedContinueContinue reading “Re-presenting – Two presentations in three days”
Three types of people?
No-one likes to be used….
Okay I finally figured it out. Figured what out? Why when someone talks about how they can USE blogs why I get a strange uneasy feeling and bells faintly ringing in my head. I was approached a few times by people after our presentation at the ConnectingUp 2006 Conference saying how they’d come to findContinueContinue reading “No-one likes to be used….”
Darwin – getting there is half the fun.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Put another way, you could say things are generally the same here in Darwin as home in Adelaide – aside from the obvious one, the weather. There are differences obviously – but the weather really seems to be the only big difference. There’s still theContinueContinue reading “Darwin – getting there is half the fun.”
