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I have a lot of cool ideas and resources that I want to share with everyone. But first I wanted to post about the fun things. Although I was the only person from my home institution at the conference, three people from one our consortial schools were there so I hung out with them for…

A pretty good day all told. I spent the last part of the day talking about virtual communities–creating them and sustaining them. It was a discussion session and I tried to make an argument that you can’t really force virtual communities, that the best ones simply emerge. I used the blog community–loose though it may…

After a night out with some colleagues who are also attending, I am now in bed, blogging and watching tv at the same time. Do I know how to have fun or what? I’m really thinking a laptop with wireless is in my future so I can do this at home. Please consider donating to…

So here I am on my way to Baltimore. I tried to find a wireless connection and there are about 10 in range, but who knows what or who they are. I know there’s wireless at the conference so I’ll have to wait until then to connect. I forgot all my books, so I purchased…

I took this twice actually. The first time I got a 68. I only changed my answer to two questions and that put me at a 78. If I were still on my old Linux machine, I’d probably be higher. How pathetic is it that I *want* to be nerdy? Anyway, I can live with…

I had an interesting discussion with my office mates this morning about women in the IT field. We were considering a web conference and we passed around a flyer with bios on the two presenters. I said, oh look white guys. Everyone was a little shocked and I said that i’d simply noticed lately that…

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Writing Day, part III did not happen. Although I’m going to write some more today, I’m not pushing myself for more than an hour or so. For some reason, I didn’t sleep well last night so I’m feeling a little groggy today. So I’m going to spend the morning waking up, playing with my kids,…

I think there will be a part III as well. I had actually only gotten 6 pages done during part I–very dyslexic of me. I doubled that amount in part II. In doing the math, it seems I’m not going to make it through the whole thing before tomorrow evening. But maybe I can make…

I decided to start out at home, so I could stay in my jammies. I drank some coffee, ate breakfast and read blogs for about 45 minutes. Then I fired up the laptop at the dining room table and set to writing for about 1.5 hours. I broke for a shower and came back to…