Madonna blond or Madonna brunette? Madonna started her career as a blond and though her style changed between the "Like A Virgin" to "True Blue" albums, it was not until "Like A Prayer" that we really got the power brunette look. I sense a "Like A Prayer" moment coming for Lady Gaga soon….. Just a matter of time….

It is quite inspiring to view the early paper based sketches of popular web apps such as Flickr, Twitter and Vimeo. Everything has to start somewhere….

I like the "rip-mix-burn" Teacher as a DJ metaphor proposed by "Iterating Towards Openness". I promise to refrain from changing the lyrics of Just Dance to match this concept, but I will tell you that, "I’ve had a little bit too much…", is actually "… a little bit too much of boring lectures". So remember to Strike A Pose!

More and more I am posting little snippets to Twitter. Follow me: My username is aneesha

I am also thinking about using Twitter as a storytelling platform. Look out for a micro story called Escape. Its coming, I promise.

WikiEducator can export a collection of Wiki pages to an IMS content package, which can then be imported into Blackboard (or any other LMS). This is a great feature! Learning content can be authored collaboratively and versioned prior to be loaded into an LMS. Ah but should the LMS not support this by default? Wondering whether this is a feature Confluence could also support?

Yay! Just Dance by Lady Gaga is finally No 1 in the US. Great song, but I’d thought the US would not notice a pop song, and as the song had not charted initially I had all but given up. ……but slowly and surely Just Dance climbed to No 1 over a 22 week period, totally powered the by reflections from all the disco balls in the video. I can’t be happier for Lady Gaga to crack both the US and UK markets. Just Dance is tipped to be No 1 in the UK this week. The US and UK are behind - Australia having already embraced "The Fame" for most of 2008.

… And Lady Gaga celebrated the No 1 single by singing with a live band on the Tonight show (Jay Leno) with an electronic glove thingy and skin colored pantyhose. Oh wait, was that origami she was wearing????

I got a chance over the Xmas break to pack and throw out a lot of outdated computing magazines. Deciding which magazine to keep and which to throw out, was easy. I kept anything of algorithmic importance. Essentially this means that I kept just about every copy of Dr Dobb’s Journal that I had ever purchased. I was quite sad, to read today that Dr Dobb’s Journal is no longer a publication of its own - it will now be a section in InformationWeek.

…… I am going to build the converter with a genetic algorithm, sit back and watch it evolve! This idea is inspired by Genetic Algorithm in Python to Generate File Converters.

Interesting and accurate post’s from both Coding Horror and Kathy Sierra on Micromanagement. It is true that micromanagement creates staff that are neither able to creatively problem solve. The other end of the spectrum is intelligent staff slowly being drained of brain cells due to continuous micromanagement. My advise to anybody being micromanaged to to move on as quickly as possible!

A Sakai roadmap leading up to Version 3 (via mfeldstein.com), due in 2013. More specific V3 details are also available. A few questions come to mind. Can we wait till 2013? Will that be what we really need by 2013?