via Joel - Urbanev.com presents SimpleDJ. What a gallus app! And brought to you by the same site the rather cruel Driving Over Jakob Nielsen! I have a feeling that some of my students would wish to s/Jakob Nielsen/Duncan Smeed/g in the game ;-) If not now then certainly after the exams!!

I've long had an interest in Escher's work. So I was delighted to find the Totally Tessellated: Escher's Tessellations link via Andrea's Weblog.

David [SiT] jokes that I only attended the Networked Learning Environment Project workshop yesterday to ... get hold of some more acronyms. I replied to this acronymonious suggestion with news of one that provoked some reaction at the workshop ;-)

Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Academy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, related the following story:

Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed a perfect score. The instructor and the student agreed to an impartial arbiter, and I was selected.

I read the examination question: "Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer." The student had answered: More...

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Major bummer!! I've just lost the best part of an hour's preparation of my thoughts about the areas of interest I submitted when registering for the TLTP Dissemination Event held in Newcastle later today. Should have known better than not save my BBEdited file and just rely on a cut'n'paste into an IE form for this website. IE5 locked up my machine completely before I had a chance to post my message.

I'm not taking any chances with this message! Save often!!

Since I have an early start later this morning - to catch the 06:30 train from Edinburgh to Newcastle, I don't have the time to reconstitute my list just now. Suffice to say my interest in, and potential contribution to, the event is geared around the four Zope-based final year student projects from my ZEUS Projects and CRUXIAL Projects suggestions. Namely:

• ZAPHOD Project,
• ZEALOUS Project(s),
• ZOETROPE Project, and
• BONEZ Project