Enjoyed watching Scott Lesley’s presentation on Augmenting content with client-side tools. I had not realised that so many Firefox extensions and Greasemonkey scripts specifically designed to enhance open content were available. I am still exploring Scott’s bookmarks on the subject, but here are a few gems:

• Convert a Greasemonkey script into a FireFox extension
• It’s My Learning Environment and I Want It Back
  A users writes a script to add a widget to Moodle.
• OER Recommender
  Totally love this extension. It recommends other useful resources related to the page you are viewing. I found the page explaining the approach and mathematics very insightful. It certainly gave me a few ideas on how I could put some Machine Learning concepts to good use. A big AHA moment here for me…….
• CoScripter
  Record doing a task in FireFox and then share it.

Blackboard have released a special language pack for ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day’. A nice way to showcase their language pack capabilities. ….. but will it break the scorm content? Thats the big question!

… should not exist …

Nope — it’s both: http://blogs.pcworld.com/tipsandtweaks/archives/feature.jpg

I loved the Napoleon Dynamite movie - a definite cult classic. I only saw the movie in 2006, so I did not take any interest in the “Bill Gates Goes to College” opening vid from the PDC 2005 Conference. The 5.5 minute video features Napoleon and is hilarious.

Favourite quote: When Napoleon turns to Gates and says “You look like my brother!”.

If you have yet to experience Napoleon Dynamite - Go rent it out now!

Why do you need a blog?
Well everybody has a blog.

What will you blog about?
I have no idea.

Who is gonna read your blog?
Does it matter?

Will you have time to blog?
Probably not, but I will try.

Will you mention Madonna in a few posts?
I always mention Madonna.

What software will you use?
WordPress

But you never code in PHP?
If I like software, I use it. Features are more important.

I thought you had purchased Rails hosting?
Yes, I like Rails and Ruby. I also like Java. I like C#. ColdFusion is cool as well. Mmmm, I like programming languages. I think I’ll call the blog Random Syntax.

What will your first post be?
Enough with all the questions. I have a name for my blog. I’m off!