Jim Roepcke's weblog: have browser, will travel | Rare "Think Different" Posters

To all the people who laughed at me when I was buying tubes of Apple's Think Different Posters for $10 on their web site and from their company store, take a look at this:...

I wonder how much Jim is worth ;-)

PlayStation 3: The next generation - Tech News - CNET.com

...research efforts for the PlayStation 3 are focusing on distributed computing, a method for spreading computational tasks across myriad networked computers

Organize, collect, share your books with Singlefile - seems to ba a neat idea. I'm sure I could implement the bones of this in Conversant for my own purposes.

One set of exam papers down, and one set (almost ready) to go. Hopefully the weekend will be a bit more relaxing as a result.

The two-week Easter vacation starts today. My students don't return until 8th April. Time to catch up with all the things that have been queuing up recently. Here are some of the things I need to do over the next two weeks:

• Catch up with my family
• Catch up with my sleep
• Take lots of long walks with Rio (and anybody else that wants to tag along on the dog walk)
• Catch up with all the great stuff that's happening with Conversant and Radio
• Catch up with the extereme learning stuff
• Catch up with the departmental admin
• Catch up with the coursework assessments/organisation
• Tidy up my office at work (OK, that would be a displacement activity ;-))
• Tidy up my study at home
• Tidy up the garden
• Tidy/back up the files/folders of my iBook

My last reserves of energy ran out on the train through to Linlithgow this morning and my brain shut me down. Alas, I didn't receive an external interrupt until the warning bells on the ScotRail service sounded as the doors were shut and locked just before pulling out of Linlithgow station. Yes! This is just an reverse-anthropomorphic way of saying that I slept past my stop B-{

To make matters worse, a colleague was waiting to pick me up at the station as were going to a meeting together. So, I got off at the next stop - Polmont - from where I phoned Paul and eventually got through to him. The good folk of Polmont in the station waiting room had a good laugh at my predicament ;-)

To cut a long story short, 20 minutes later I caught the next train back to Linlithgow and finally met up with Paul. We arrived at our meeting 30 minutes late. Needless to say the good folk in the meeting had a good laugh at my 'excuse' for being late!

Must....get....more....sleep. But hopefully not on the way home tonight since if I sleep through my stop then, It'll be 30 miles further on before the next station - and no way to get back since I will have missed the last connection!

Must...stay...awake!

Secure Server for Frontier and Radio

Macrobyte is pleased to announce that a secure web server is in development for Radio UserLand(tm) and UserLand Frontier(tm).

This is another thing that's kept Seth busy! Excellent news for those that need a secure server option and yet another example of how productive Macrobyte is using UserTalk.

Congratulations Seth

O K I > Overview

The Open Knowledge Initiative is defining an open architectural specification to be used for the development of educational related software.

Completing my exam papers has become my top prioriy task. Until I finish them I am masking all interrupts and I've lowered the priority of displacement activities to the minimum level.

There's a backlog of really interesting stuff that I've also suspended for the moment. I will service these interruptions in due course.

Apologies if my response time is a lot slower than normal. As the sign in my office states "Please be patient - I only have two speeds and if this one isn't fast enough -- then I'm sure you won't like my other one!"