23 Things

Things I'm looking forward to during this programme:

1) learning some new things
2) saving time on the things that I already know
3) exploring if I could use these things professionally
4) exploring if I could use these things personally
5) enjoying seeing what colleagues are doing
6) talking about it with colleagues over coffee
7) having fun
8) doing all of the above at my own pace

That's it. It would have been nice to think of 23 positives but 8 will have to do.

iGoogle

I'm now an iGoogler. Each time I select internet explorer I'm now faced with all sorts of information:

'Burnsian' is the OED word of the day
the weather in OX4 is getting colder - more snow? hurrah!!
"stress marriage in sex ed, teachers are told" - perhaps that education news gadget is not going to be relevant
a clock tells me it's 20.25 - just above where my pc tells me it's 20.25
Kan You Handle A Kandle for Your Kindle? - a new electric light for ebooks readers
"fat guy has seizure" YouTube most viewed video
a bird watching gadget keeps throwing up picture of birds - is that really what an Indigo Bunting looks like?
Schumacher 'can win title at 41': I'm 41, perhaps I could make it into Formula One

And then there's more library news, cricket news, maps, nme music news etc. I'll take the Kandle and the weather - the rest can go. If only I could get just a nice, clean page, with a single search box...