EduGlu Sandbox

I’ve not posted up many photos recently, so here are a few I took last week of my office…

Have been connection-less for the last few days as the PCs we’d been using at the Red Cross Centre have been taken away and have then been finding my feet in Mekelle, so I’m making a few posts all in one go…

Had a briefing about the education system here and its been expanding rapidly over the last few years- going from about 4m children enrolled in 2000, to over 14m in 2006 - this is about 80% of all children.

All is still going well, have now got rid of my tiredness from the travelling and a little bit of altitude sickness. We’ve been having language training for couple of hours every morning and then been out trying to practice it in the market and shops around - with a fairly good success rate, haven’t been over charged too much yet.

After over 7½ years at the OU, today is my last day.

Mozilla Labs have just launched the Ubiquity plugin for Firefox and to me it looks fantastic

Like many people, I’ve been gradually moving towards using web based apps and keeping my data ‘in the cloud’ (e.g. GMail, Remember The Milk, Google Docs etc).

A few days ago I ordered myself this external USB powered CD/DVD for taking away with me so at least I’ll be able to watch films (and backup my data!) on my Asus Eee.

The eagle eyed amongst you will have noticed that I’ve added a ‘VSO feeds’ section to the side bar. I wanted to be able to aggregate feeds from other VSO volunteers to show on my site, unfortunately the RSS widget built into Wordpress won’t aggregate feeds for you - you’d need to create a new wdiget for each feed - not really what I wanted.

When you’re trying to use XUL.