Watch and laugh - Dick is hilarious as the Academic who can’t use a computer. Watch Dick over use technology in Part 2 - way to make fun of webcams and online recorded lectures.

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I guess, given that enterprise software can be pricy, financing has always been an option. Though I never thought I’d see the day when a software company is actually lending or facilitating the loan. Sure is starts at 0% but…. I just added economy as a category to my blog. Oh dear!

Quite a few interesting papers from the MUPPLE08 conf. Particularly liked the “Adding mash-up based tailorability to VLEs for scripted Collaborative Learning” paper which has an example of using MediaWiki to render the mashups (made with a tool called Collage).

Wow — Lady Gaga is amazing but never thought she would have this success so fast. Poker Face is NO 1. …And Yay for Chace Crawford being in the vid.

Trying to finish some code - mostly Java but have had to write some fairly simple Javascript. Test the code in Firefox, it all works. I test in IE and I get an error. I start to debug in IE - line by line. The error seems to be on the line that uses Array.indexOf(). Mmmm, thats crazy you say. That can’t be. Sure enough I turn to my search pal Google and realise that I am not the first to encounter this error. IE (even version 7) does not implement Array.indexOf….. Can’t believe I have not encountered this before and can’t believe it even exists.

The fundamental rule of screenwriting, as I have been taught, is to “show and not tell”. Essentially it means that a screenwriter should use actions to get a point across instead of simply describing things via dialog. All rules are meant to be broken at some point in time! Gemini Division, a micro series breaks this rule. Getting a story across in a very short timeframe (each episode is only 6 minutes) is a contraint and the writers let the lead character do alot of talking (telling) to a video phone. I feel I need to try writing a micro series as I have not been able to finish any of my 3 started screenplays. Shorter stories, even if just blog posts, might mean that I can actually finish a story and as I love to break rules, I hope to break a few more screenwriting rules along the way.

You get a Random Syntax Blog post returned as the first result….. Cool!

It is a great time for Lady Gaga to release her vid for Beautiful Dirty Rich. Yes, Gaga burns and eats money in the midst of an economic crisis. Great visuals, unique song - “Honey, but we got no money”.

The beauty of this list is that no server side coding is needed.

6. Display Del.icio.us feeds with the aptly titled Del.icio.us Feeds Displayer.
5. Display RSS and ATOM feeds with jFeed.
4. Display an image gallery/slideshow with Galleria.
3. Add formatted tooltips to any link with clueTip.
2. Help visualise tabular data, by transforming the data to graph with graphTable.
1. Embed all types of multimedia files with jQuery Media.

Via geekhero - this is an absolute gem from CSI New York. Now really, TV shows need to actually have a Programmer as a technical consultant. Hire me, Hire me!!!