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Breaking out, last years in Portugal
Was there ever a time in your working life when you had just had enough? This is my story. The oil industry traditionally is one of boom and bust. One day you are a Chief Geophysicist working on prospects off…
The Band
Rag Mama Rag hit the airwaves in 1969 as a track on their second album The Band. I liked the song and bought the album and subsequently Music from Big Pink released the year before. The music was identifiably rock…
New York, arriving
Long trip of 17 hours went by rather nicely after all and we both got a decent sleep too. One piece of luggage never arrived but they found it stuck in a chute somewhere eventually. Other than that JFK was…
Desktops 1
I have a number of photos that I have used as desktops on various computers. Most of them hold some memory or have a background of some meaning for me. The quality of the photos however, is quite variable. In…
Moodle Development: getting started.
What I've learned about Moodle Development over the last two years.
Richard Jones
Quick overview of richard's professional background and experience.
The Internet in 2034
A little piece I wrote recently for the Coursera Course by Dr Chuck (Charles Severance) on Internet History, Technology and Security. An excellent course by the way, you may know much about the technology already but the interviews are quite…
School Trek
In the keynote I try to show why it is that the time for technology to finally change the nature of education has arrived. For me, this is a journey that started in 1990, for others (notably Apple Classrooms of…