light in the shadows

ust catching up with some links
The Painted Veil: Movie
A superb movie!! – couldn’t figure out where the title came from, but (from you know where!!) The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s sonnet which begins “Lift Not The Painted Veil Which Those Who [...]

Posted on June 17th, 2008 under Whimsey, WorkLife. Tags: teaching awards. Comments: None

I posted a little about Dan Sullivan recently. I have just been browsing his website, wondering if it had anything on it about his ‘three day’ philosophy. There must be something there somewhere, but at the moment I cannot find it. However there is this link: on a Free Day.
Just what is [...]

Posted on April 2nd, 2008 under MyLife, WorkLife. Tags: efficiency, productivity, work-life. Comments: None

I’ve wondered seriously whether I need to declare online bankrupcy. Laurence Lessig did it for e-mail. E-mail is not quite my problem. Just a bit too much online stuff, too many frontiers. But I decided it is just the end of year run up to Christmas, I was tired – plus, [...]

Posted on December 4th, 2007 under Conferences, Events 07, Leadership, WorkLife. Tags: ASDUNZ, Physics Education, Workshops. Comments: None

I’ve just realised how many draft posts I have had.  14.  Most with several paragraphs of unfinished thoughts.  Some of the topics include:

unWorkshop thoughts on Professional Development
Nancy White: Competencies for online
Web 2.0 & Change Processes
E-Fest. Workshop: Creative Online Facilitation.
Memories of Setubal
Holiday reading
Cool Tools: Mindmapping
Groups and Individuals
F2F Conferences & Online

These were the posts I still have [...]

Posted on November 20th, 2007 under Blogging, WorkLife. Tags: Change, Conversations. Comments: None

The Access Grid Linkup for the Launch of the FLLinNZ toolkit has now been and gone. This was both stressful and a lot of fun. Blog Link. AKOWiki page Link.
I did not have a clue what I was getting myself in in for. I have done a score of VC linkups, but never [...]

Posted on October 22nd, 2007 under Events 07, FLLiNZ, Web 2.0, WorkLife, unConferences. Comments: None

I wrote may last post about two hours ago.  This was post #3 after my 30 or so days interregnum.  I spent a month rejigging some of my habits, getting rid of junk and clearing the decks.  Now I’m just catching up with some of the blogs I watch.
After posting and reading, (as well as [...]

Posted on September 11th, 2007 under Blogging, Stillpoint, WorkLife. Comments: None

Unfortunately, The Blogging challenge came one month too early for me. I had set September as my time to re-emerge into the world of blogging, internet accounts and social software after clearing my mind of this major project – the Online Workshop Toolkit (Hoped to have it sorted by the 31st August) – and [...]

Posted on September 10th, 2007 under MyLife, Professonal Development, WorkLife. Comments: None