Moving Houses Wiki

Wikis are a fantastic tool for teaching and learning. If we had more wikis like the Deakin University icebreaker scheme there would be less need for everyone to move houses. One reason I'm moving is because I'm located so far from Melbourne Uni, and those of my fellow students who have tried the online learning programs have been grateful in the end to talk to real people! In spite of commuting from Bendigo, Ballarat, or Geelong (or East Gippsland). I'm convinced that wikis are the way of the future for education. Incidentally, I found out why I couldn't upload any photos. My computer firewall has blocked all my photos. Somehow I stumbled on this fact while trying to create any kind of a photo blog page. So I will have to confess dismay on all things photographic and hope to make up for it with my personal charm. Meanwhile, my house move has three weeks to go. I now begin to compile a change of address list of over 100 items. And a postal vote, at the new address, since the election is the day after I move. I think a moving house wiki would be a real benefaction.

Delicious Boxes

Librarything and Delicious are just the things for someone who's packing boxes all the time. I put lots of books into Librarything and then I put them in the boxes. That way, if they disappear, I can still find them on the internet! This is cool. Delicious is just as good. I can put all my favourites out there on the net and pick them up from anywhere. Now I'm going to try to put an image on this page---an image of almost anything--- because mentally I'm still in the image stage where I packed my visa card into a box and still don't know where it is. They had to give me a new one. This time I'll try to get a picture off the net, because the ones I saved onto my computer refuse to come to this blog. Nope. I tried to cut then copy or paste but the computer is just not interested. I will try a new post and do only one image. One little one...If it would just come out of the computer box and onto the screen!

I Achieved Something, I'm Not Sure What

Sorry, folks, I thought I achieved something, but now Blogger tells me it can't accept my html from LibraryThing because one letter is missing. Why didn't it tell me that in the first place? I set up a nice account and added some books to it, and was all set to copy and paste to this blog, but all that happened was the html came across, looked like it printed out, and then failed. These are the disappointments of the Net. Where was I to put this html? In a box? What box? Where? I DID look at the image generators, honest. They had a strong appeal to young teenage boys, I thought. Given that I couldn't get the html from LibraryThing across, I fear I have failed this section also. It's like Mount Everest. I know it's there. Rollyo, will no doubt be of use to those who like total control. Search boxes within search boxes. How much information are we in fact handing over to large corporations as we roll?

House Boxes

Wow, I have managed to create a yahoo account and a flickr account and I think I downloaded a picture. I was going to add this nice picture of a box-type house in San Francisco to this blog, but alas I see no way to upload it. Nevertheless two very strong guys arrived at my house today and took away two rooms of furniture, about 50 pictures (seriously addicted to consumption; that's two a year), and another 30 boxes or so. Plus the contents of 3 sheds and one garage. You would not believe how strong they are. I can't even shove this stuff along the floor, and they just pick it up and haul it out the door! I hear they're weightlifters in their off hours: for recreation and a change from houses. I shall now return to Flickr and see if I can work out how to show you this very interesting, box-style, warehouse view of San Francsico, where I come from (why I am in Australia is a long story). I chose this house-box-warehouse because that's what my house has become: a warehouse. Don't hold your breath. I know the picture's on my computer somewhere, but that doesn't mean it's going anywhere.

Better Boxes

RSS feeds are like boxes within boxes. From packing so many boxes inside boxes, I can see how useful this will be in that distant day when I master this technology. For the moment, Bloglines won't let me add the public URL because it's telling me to do something strange with javascript instead of just adding the URL with no nonsense. It also turns out that the Age newspaper apparently has no RSS feed although there it seems to sit on the Age website. I conclude that Bloglines hasn't moved house yet effectively, and I'm still playing with boxes. Mainly boxes that are supposed to have URL's in them. Still, I have benefitted by knowing that RSS feeds exist and what they do, although the BBC World News feed is likely to provide more news over the next 24 hours than I'm likely to read in a lifetime. Back to real-life boxes. I have just packed all the videotapes, a reminder of what happens to technology and how fast it ages.