View from the Potting Shed

Since I posted our presentation on Mind Mapping for effective content management on Slideshare yesterday I woke to discover that

“IWMW 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland” was the first “Spotlight” on our presentation sharing service of choice,
and more remarkably that

Our presentation was being featured as “Slideshow of the Day” on the homepage!

There have a few more developments resulting […]

A8: Mind Mapping for Effective Content Management

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I’m currently in Aberdeen at the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2008 conference, blogging this during a presentation by someone at JISC. Because you can do that at a geeky conference without it looking rude!
There are currently about 30 delegates (including one of the […]

It’s just as well that my organization skills are honed because I’ve been seriously short of time these last couple of weeks. I’m considering putting in for a transfer to Mercury, whose length of day is 58.646 Earth days.
At the moment, as you probably know, I’m part of a two-person Web team. We’re […]

[Long sorrowful exhale]
It’s been a long day today. It felt like I was never going to get home once I eventually got on the road. Those familiar ten miles seemed to stretch on forever. How did it take me about 30 minutes to drive home?!
The day’s first obstacle was getting into work […]

A presentation by the JRuby Guys (Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo) at Scotland on Rails.
This is a post that I’ve had sitting in my WordPress drafts since early April about the Scotland on Rails conference that I attended, actually the same weekend that Jane and I discovered that she was pregnant … so that made […]

A nice and friendly way to begin a presentation.
About 10 months ago we launched a new website for the University.
Over the last few weeks we’ve been hosting a number of feedback sessions inviting folks to comment on what they think works, what doesn’t work, what could be improved, and giving us an opportunity to showcase […]

It would appear that to park in the Dyer’s Brae staff car park in St Andrews you would need a car that is some kind of shade of red or blue.
It would also appear that a complete inability to park straight would help too, as this photo ably demonstrates:

Very poor, Mr Reeves; very poor!