Monthly Archives: June 2012

Augmented Reality in the Classroom and Library #ozseries

The #ozseries presentation from last night; Come hear about the top 4 ways to ue augmented reality in the classroom, community or library Top 4 ways to really win with augmented reality in your school, community or library by Brendan … Continue reading

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A bunch of petty piss-ants?

“The Aust public is entitled to look at us as a bunch of petty piss-ants if we can’t sort this out”: Senator Nick Xenofon #faine #auspol — @774melbourne Perhaps then there are different crises. For the poor wretches desperate enough … Continue reading

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Wednesday WIN (2012-Jun-27)

JAY-Z’S 99 PROBLEMS, VERSE 2: A CLOSE READING WITH FOURTH AMENDMENT GUIDANCE FOR COPS AND PERPS [PDF] This is a line-by-line analysis of the second verse of 99 Problems by Jay-Z, from the perspective of a criminal procedure professor. It’s … Continue reading

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Connecting iOS 5.x to MS Exchange (UNIMELB)

My iPad UNIMELB account has broken down and I have tried several times to set up a new account, but without success. The information I have is: … Can you check what I need to do to get this fixed? … Continue reading

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Music Monday #109 – Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds

Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells.[1] Its format is progressive rock and string orchestra, using … Continue reading

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This weeks links (2012-06-25)

In brief: * .@ukhomeoffice: Stop the extradition of Richard O’Dwyer to the USA #SaveRichard — Jimmy Wales [www.change.org] Richard O’Dwyer is a 24 year old British student at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. He is facing extradition to the … Continue reading

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Wednesday WIN (2012-Jun-20)

#MelbQuake The details for last night’s quake were; M 5.2, 10 km (6 miles) SW of Moe, Australia (38.244°S 146.194°E), Depth 9.9km. Of course there is only one possible outcome for this event – Twitter and Facebook explode with puns! … Continue reading

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Firefox 13.0.1

Firefox v.13.0.1 was offered to release channel users on June 15, 2012 Fixed in Firefox 13.0.1 [4] No Security fixes, this release has 3 functionality fixes; FIXED: Windows Messenger did not load in Hotmail, and the Hotmail inbox did not … Continue reading

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videoconferencing and selling a package

An interesting link in a Tweet last night from Jason Bordujenko (AARNet National Video Conferencing Manager); I’ll quote the final paragraph here; I am not saying that a videoconferencing experience should be based on fantasy and a contrived story line. … Continue reading

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To tablet or not to tablet?

Two interesting items in my feeds overnight You did what? Reading through my Twitter feed I see a post linking to The day I removed an Interactive Whiteboard for the first time and my first thought was ‘You did what?’ … Continue reading

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