I might as well publish this here now that it's official! After much soul searching and talking, I have decided to run for Convenor of MIV 2012 ( Read more... )

Your rainbow is strongly shaded green and red.

What is says about you: You are an intelligent person. You appreciate energetic people. Those around you admire your fresh outlook and vitality. You get bored easily and want friends who will keep up with you.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

Yep, for sure :)

In 2009, ( Read more... )

Open the nearest book to page 56.
Write out the fifth sentence on that page, and also the next two to five sentences.
The CLOSEST BOOK, NOT YOUR FAVORITE, OR MOST INTELLECTUAL!

The fleet captain said finally: "That will do. Everybody's too worked up to think. Debate is adjourned for four duty periods, sixteen hours. Discuss the problem with ( Read more... )

Instructions:
Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing.
Post these instructions with the picture.


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I blame Richard:

http://fantasticcontraption.com/

Arrgh... it's so distracting

So I've been messing around with things that involved turning off the electricity to the house temporarily. I shut down all the computers and then cut the power. All fine ( Read more... )

Monday and Tuesday are "new class release" days at Fitness First in Bourke St ( Read more... )

So cuddlefairy asked last week - "what do you think are the 5 most important computing skills for a child to coming out of school".

After a bunch of discussion in that thread, and at home, and at camp... here's the revised list as decided by me. Usual disclaimers apply.

• How Computers Work - how to switch them on and off. That cables need to be plugged in ( Read more... )

So cuddlefairy asked at pub last night - "what do you think are the 5 most important computing skills for a child to have coming out of school".

subtle-eye and I discussed this backwards and forwards for a while. In the end we settled on the following list (in order of agreeing on them). Keep in mind that we're trying to be pretty technology agnostic here, so we're ( Read more... )