• Am feeling like a grumpy old woman. A loud bunch of new students has invaded my library space and spoiled my concentration. iPod turned up. 4 hours ago
  • Just logged in and realised that I am sitting on 666 tweets. No wonder I was feeling Devilish today.This update will put the kibosh on that! 4 hours ago
  • School interviews tonight. Proud of my boy's hard work. Hugged & shown off by Yr13 who I taught in Yr 6. Awesome to see the man in the boy. 17 hours ago

Vanity

Linkeracy 25 September 2009

Remembering Sir Howard Morrison who died in his sleep this week. My ex-mother-in-law maintained that he and John Rowles were relatives of the family. Fairly tenuous relationships but who was I to argue with a magnificent old kuia?


Speaking of Kiwi Culture, said ex-mother-in-law’s eldest child was Pixie Wiliams who was the vocalist on New Zealand’s [...]

Steal This Comic

… you can’t win either way … Steal This Comic from xkcd

Format Shifting

Eight days since I last posted. I wish that I could say that I have been doing exciting, worthy things but sadly, no. it’s milestone and variation time here in ICT-PD-land and it’s all been about collating and compiling and putting it all together.

This morning’s Sunday Star Times had a spend-up-before -Christmas glossy about some [...]

A New Voice

A group of Canadian musicians has got together to voice their opposition to the copyright controls that they say have been imposed upon them and their fans by large multi-national recording companies.

The musicians, with Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan amongst their more famous names, are calling on their government to support them in [...]

Linkfest

I’m in the middle of a site tidy up and so I am in a posting mood. Long may it last.

Podz has a great tutorial for getting Wordpress on a USB memory stick. I can verify that this does actually work and is a handy way of demonstrating how Wordpress works. Get the [...]