sad little blog

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Death, taxes and change. I am adjusting to the restructure. The workplace has been fragmented.
I don’t need extrinsic motivators, but in this new position (that I’ve been going on about all through the life of this blog), which takes me way out of my depth, it was nice to be able to reach out and [...]

How’s that!

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

We place a lot of importance on what others think. We win degrees, awards and self-esteem through the opinions (or whims, or prejudices) of our esteemed judges. But how do they know?
In an early blog,  David Jones http://davidtjones.wordpress.com/page/4/ referred to an article by Cronholm and Goldkuhl about strategies for information systems evaluation. They have conveniently created [...]

Ateleological!

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

 
I have just noticed that I am using a new word. “Ateleological” best described the sort of research approach we are using with the PLEs@CQU project. I did not know that work (Freudian slip – try “word”) / I did not know that word a month ago. There were a lot of words and accompanying [...]