Blackboard commissioned a survey on studying habits in the UK. The key finding is that how students study and learn is changing: “While most universities advocate that students work no more than 12-16 hours per week while enrolled in a full time course, almost a third of students […]
Fujitsu announced a new network scanner – the N1800. “We at Fujitsu introduced another innovation in network scanning called the ScanSnap N1800 Network Scanner in order to help companies in paper intensive vertical markets such as healthcare, government, banking and education improve their business process management, efficiency and […]
My current favorite for a non-Mac laptop is Lenovo. Solid. Reliable. I have both a W500 and W510, and they are nice machines. Anyway, Lenovo has new laptops on offer: “Lenovo today announced six new ThinkPad laptops – the T420s, T420, T520, L420, L520 and W520 – that […]
Some people write books on the future of work. To start with though, Chris has a blog post: “I think about work often. I have been both an employee and a deep thinker about work since my first jobs. Even before I was of legal age to work, […]
Christchurch was hit with a new earthquake today – a 6.3 magnitude, and much closer to the central city. Our house started to shake at 12.53pm, and it didn’t seem as big to us this time as the original one on September 4. For us out at Greendale, […]
I do like this story … makes me smile every time I read it: “A Cowboy from Big Timber, Montana walked into a bank in New York City and asked for the loan officer. He told the loan officer that he was going to Paris for an international […]
I’ve read a number of times – in books, articles, and blogs – that you should never check a bag with the airlines. I have done it myself – I did a 6-day trip to the United States for business in 2007 with only carry-on luggage. And it […]
Like many of you, I spent much of my early years at school. Once I add in time at University, I was there from age 5 to 22. My most vivid recollection from those years took place at Kelston Boys High School in Auckland. I was 15, in […]
3D printers allow the “printing” of 3 dimensional objects – surprising right? While my boys would love to get one, the problem – as Eric puts it – was the $100,000 price tag. Apparently, those days are fast going: “MakerBot is an affordable, open source 3D printer. It […]
Christopher Penn is a friend of Chris Brogan, who is a friend of mine. Anyway, through Chris B, I (virtually) met Christopher P and signed up for his newsletter. There’s some neat stuff in it each month … and there’s always something in there to make me smile. […]
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