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  • Things you shouldn’t do

    Folks, amongst the things you shouldn’t do is mess around with your blog theme on a borrowed laptop at 01:00 in the morning when you should be sleeping. It causes you to make a booboo and a have to revert to a different template that doesn’t look as good.

    Nut bunnies.

     

    Update at 2006/05/11: I have tinkered around with a few templates and this one is my favourite so far, so i think I’ll be sticking with it….

  • An Irish Open University….

    Saw this on the Labour party website:

    Coughlan calls for the establishment of Irish Open University

    Interesting. What about:

    Oscail (www.oscail.ie) DCU’s distance learning school?

    What about UL’s courses in Project management that are offered over distance learning.

    And above all else… what about the Open University in Ireland?

    Perhaps what is needed is some funding to develop Irish universitites existing distance learning programmes?

    Oh, hang on.. the speech/press release was posted on 1st April 2006. I hope I’ve been sucked in by a prank. I really do.

  • Information non-quality on the blog

    Simon over at tuppenceworth has been on to me. Apparently my blog isn’t quite meeting his expectations.

    Can’t have that.

    Simon’s problem is that he isn’t quite sure what scrap and rework is. He says that it sounds bad to him, and I use it in a way that suggests it is a thing we shouldn’t do… but what exactly is it?

    Can’t have that. Must meet or exceed expecation… so what I will do is put together a page in the blog that will contain a lexicon of terms that I can link to… I’ll try to make it alphabetical as it would be ironic if I couldn’t manage that simple an Information process.

    Any terms that I use (and I suspect there may be many) that require definition please let me know. I sometimes speak a different language (dataqualitarian) and I acknowledge that I need to translate sometimes to communicate clearly.

    Thanks Simon.

     

  • An aside…

    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/28042006/344/fallout-slur.html

    In the snippet above, Irish Minister for the Environment Dick Roche ( see Electoral Register posts below) suggests that the portrayal in a TV drama about the impact of an incident at Sellafield on the east coast of Ireland was “bizarre” because it suggested that there would be riots on the streets of Dublin.

    Yes minister. That is bizarre. It has never happened before…

    http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74507