Following on my last post about my issues with the Windows Vista operating system on my short-lived new machine, after far too many late nights and even more restores, rebuilds and exponential amounts of frustration, I discovered only one sure-fire way to resolve the difficulties I was having with the OS: return the machine.
Let it never be said that I took the easy way out. Being the good IT professional and researcher I am, I devoted no less than 30 hours this week in total to resolving the problems …

At a Snails Pace
Originally uploaded by maverickapollo.
I recently purchased a new home computer after my last one gave up the ghost, and reluctantly agreed to the most recent Windows offering as the operating system. Having spent the last several days getting used to things I have to say that Windows Vista has proven a very interesting place, but I wouldn’t want to live there – at least not yet.
Possibly because it’s such a new operating system with some kinks to work out, or that the …

I must admit that my attendance of and participation in the SANTEC web seminar was dreadful the last few days of the event. From the sound of things I wasn’t alone in this respect either. According to their most recent blog post:
“What happened in this seminar when the comments on this blog slowed down and stopped? Was it the mistaken message on the SANTEC list that the seminar was over? Was it simply that the workshop and seminar genres don’t mix? Or that a workshop that works well …

Google recently announced an increase in the maximum file attachment size from 10 megabytes to 20, saying:
“Now you can start sharing more of those home videos, large presentations and files you just can’t seem to get smaller. We have doubled the allowable attachment size to 20 MB to make your Gmail space even more useful.”
With most email providers filtering out messages that are 10 megs and over with caps on incoming file sizes the relative benefit of this increase is likely to be minor unless both parties are Gmail users.
…or …

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“The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)” provided by: mwesch
One of the strengths of social software which can’t be emphasised enough is its depth and capacity to serve learning and teaching via a variety of different mediums including text, video and images. Furthermore the speed with which you can develop and disseminate information means minimal time investment is required to technically develop the content as compared to traditional websites.
In the case of the latter, in the past, static web content could only be made available after coding up …