Teach history. Students are good, particularly those in Years 9 and 10. Students ground you.
Taught history twice. In between those two occasions developed web sites for various tertiary educational institutions and eLearning solutions for Nokia (Europe and Asia), Singapore Airlines, JP Morgan Bank (NY) and others. That was an experience. Highs and lows.
Now I blend the two. Encouraging the students to go beyond MySpace and Facebook to really publish on their own platforms.
Sootie has settled for camouflage beneath the yam plant and the agapantha. He is on his morning exploration around that part of the garden that is his "run". We keep him clear of the parrots and other birds in the main part of the garden.
Sent via iPhone and Posterous.
Just reconfigured Posterous. With this single email from my phone I am updating my blog Watershed, my Flickr account, Facebook, Posterous and Twitter.
Sunset at Tioman Island.
Sent via iPhone.
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I have a couple of favourite photographs. Both taken with a 3 megapixel Sony
digital camera about eight years ago. Thought I would write a little about
each. The first is of a spider that I managed to photograph in Sungei Buloh
Wetland Reserve in Singapore back in 2000. It was hot and humid. I was there
with some colleagues who were photographing some of the flora and fauna for
a CD-ROM on mangrove environments.
I decided to see how close I could get to this particular spider. I made my
way into the undergrowth and crouched down upon the wet damp leaves. I held
the camera in both hands and using a simple macro setting eased the lens
closer to the spider until it seemed to be in focus. I took the photograph.
It is shown below. The spider is a little out of focus. She was busily
repairing the web. [I think the spider is female as it lacks tarsal bulbs on
its pedipalps]. She seems to have lost one of her legs.
The other photograph was also taken in a mangrove. This time in Indonesia.
My wife and I had taken a holiday in Bintan to get away from Singapore.
While we were there we were given an escorted boat ride into a nearby
mangrove and I took a number of photographs with the same Sony camera. While
we floated along we came across a part of the mangroves where a large number
of mangrove snakes were lying on the branches above and alongside the
waterway. This species of snake is widespread and is also referred to as a
cat snake.
I asked our guide if we could stop so that I could take a photograph. The
little boat paused. I grabbed my camera, gently stood up and pointed the
camera towards the snake. The boat was swaying to and fro a little. I
grabbed a branch with one hand and held the camera with the other. The
branch I held is in the left of the photograph. As I grabbed the branch and
took that photograph the snake turned to look directly at me. I quickly sat
down and the guide backed the little boat out of there. He was worried that
I might be bitten or the snake may drop into the boat.
The image is blurred. I did not have the time to focus. Still like the
photograph though. I was close. Probably too close. I have been back to
those mangroves, with my wife Shao Ping and my nephew Adrian.
http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/12/14/two-memorable-moments/
http://blog.larkin.net.au/2008/12/01/celebrations-for-sungei-buloh/
http://www.larkin.net.au/bintan_feb_2001/index.html
http://www.larkin.net.au/bintan_jan_2002/index.html
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I recently completed some work at the new CED office at the NTU in Singapore.
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I recently had the chance to visit Singapore. The bus took us through Kranji where my dad's battalion fought a battle to defend the depot in February 1942.
I took some photos of the depot as the bus went by.
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Spent some time cleaning up my web site and eliminating redundant pages and resources. I cleared out about 300mb of files. Still a bit to do. Each time I conduct a workshop I create a page and link to the resources required by the participants. There has been a lot of duplication and links everywhere. I have cleaned up those pages and placed all of the resources on a single page...
Presentation and workshop documents
Then I collated a number of links on my Web 2.0 page which had been sitting on pages elsewhere. This needs tidying up but there is some useful stuff here...
There is this page of links to various web sites and resources. This needs updating. I am not happy with it...
Some years back I used to run workshops on establishing a web presence. I taught participants how to set up a domain, grab some server space and blog. Look at the links further down on this page. They go back a few years to 2005. Some good ones among them...
If you discover a broken link to any of the resources on my own site or elsewhere please drop us a line if you can spare a moment. I added a Creative Commons License to all my stuff too. Share and share alike. Just let me know. That would be nice.
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