Roddy's thoughts and pictures at the close of the day
Just in case anyone navigates here looking for my Rhodes University African Futures course here is the link: http://africanfutures.wordpress.com The image below is also clickable. I was intending to set up the African Futures site next year but the move from Rhodes University's Web Based Learning platform became urgent. RUconnected (Rhodes' customisation of Moodle) has become... Continue Reading →
Spending the weekend with Harry at Cintsa was a little tricky .. after all were we at Cintsa, Chintsa or Chinsta (see first three pictures below)? And was it going to be a bachelor weekend for the two of us or were we going to be two Grumpy Old Men ... I leave you to... Continue Reading →
I used to have a website devoted to Grahamstown's urban geography before Apple wrote off Mobile Me and support for iWeb. It described how the city grew, showed the segregation and apartheid areas and had pairs of photographs showing how the city has changed. All of those images are now in the gallery below. The... Continue Reading →
I walked past here three weeks ago on a long day's hike with my brother. It is a couple of years since I stayed in the tiny cottage beyond the headland at Gustafsberg, above the small boat harbour at Lindesnäs. I used to wake up early in the morning and you could hear the weather.... Continue Reading →
On Friday last week I got round to uploading this material on to slideshare. It is a seminar presentation on Open Access and Open Source that criticises the current publishing and teaching systems' dependence on market based models which lock our work away into silos of inaccessibility. Today I read this opinion piece on Al... Continue Reading →
My contribution at last month's Reddits Poetry evening was Waka Waka Bang Splat! I was inspired to seek out another 'internet' poem following Harry Owen's hilarious reading of John Lindley's 'the F word' the month previously . Waka Waka claims to be the World's First (1990) Internet Special Characters Poem. It was published by Fred... Continue Reading →
Before going to bed last night I took a look out from the stoep . It was really clear with a bright moon rising behind the coral tree whose blossoms were picked out vividly by the house lights. I thought it would be worth trying to capture the two things and here are the results.... Continue Reading →
Now my three week introductory module at Högskolan Väst in Sweden is over it is time to have a brief look at using an open access blog (Roddy's Courses) as the main supporting device for presenting course material. This was the first time I have used a blog that is open to anyone and it... Continue Reading →
For three years I came to Sweden in spring and autumn and stayed in a tiny guest cottage at Lindesnäs. It was beautifully situated up on the hillside above the fjord right against the mountain side with lovely views down to the guest harbour at Lindesnäs. You can probably appreciate how nice it was from... Continue Reading →
It is late summer in Sweden, or perhaps early autumn is a better description, the trees are just beginning to change colour and it is the time when there should be plenty of mushrooms. But there aren't many of them this year. My friends tell me that they came out early with the summer being... Continue Reading →
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