A very late 30s blog entry – can’t get much later 30s than this! So what’s been going on in my mind and during my week as I prepare to turn the page of another decade tomorrow?
Well, you may know about the Wii shortage in shops (not that I’m after one – been there, done that – then sold it on ebay) – what’s even stranger is the cocoa shortage! We had over 20 people pass through our house today (pretty normal Sunday!) and Liz was anxious to find some cocoa for baking yesterday – but we had to visit no less than three large supermarkets and a couple of small stores before we found a tiny tub of the stuff – where has all the cocoa gone?
Travelling backwards in time, had a lovely day today – my turn on security duty at The Heath – Peter my 60+ yr old neighbour passed by on his way to St Mark’s – he is SUCH a lovely chap – and its very good to have Wyn Hughes back from Africa (and North Wales).
Saw Joseph at the New Theatre in Cardiff – the bloke who came second in the TV thing was playing the narrator and there was one of the other blonde chaps playing the lead – he made it to the top notes but missed quite a few of the others on the way! But what really impressed all of us was one of the 4 maidens who outshone all of her fellows with an endless passion in her dance etc – sounds odd I grant you – but she was great! Trouble is, the kids have all seen the video with Donny Osmond starring – so this was, well, never going to be more than “yea, that was okay”… Kids!
Work over the last week has been an interesting mix of things including the timetabling project, an IT strategy for the new City Centre Campus, user group meeting for the latter (whole day) etc. But it also included some progress on a couple of interesting initiatives I have, including hosting a national competition along with one of our vendor partners (more later if it comes off) and some interesting research proposals with local people and overseas colleagues.
Oh, and I was also informed that the Learning Environment element of our Learning and Teaching strategy (the bit I wrote) was highlighted as a national exemplar and something that could be a model for taking the whole sector foreword. That was nice to hear – but what we really have to concentrate on is implementing it! Piccy above shows what it was all about.
And, I got Leopard on my MacBook. Have I said how great I think Mac OSX is? Well, its good – and what I personally like is the magnification function – so much better than others (allbeit that was there before Leopard).
Having said that though, I’m in the market for a PDA replacement and would like an Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC) that has a SIM card slot for data (basically, a phone card for connecting to the Internet). I’m looking at the latest offering by Samsung – the Q1 Ultra (pictured below) which is due for release with the SIM function in early December – anyone got any views or opinions on this or any other one?
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