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Today's question:What invention has helped you most with your working life?I have had a few different career strands. And, being a indoorsy sort, all of them have been centred on rearranging the order of pieces of paper. But vitally, I also needed some way to contol those pieces of paper.
Fergal of this parish will be proposing a motion at the Labour Party Conference this evening on behalf of the Labour Lawyers group. I thought I'd try to put up the stream from the podium here. Fingers crossed, I can get it working.
After yesterday's catastrophe I have revised and improved my Nokia N800's relationship with the workings of this site. How scientific of me. Also, I have injured myself on a piece of broken pavement resulting in an unplanned period of immobility.
More competitive musings in aid of Science Week and good clean fun. Today we turn our attention to the question:What invention do you most want to see in the future?Again, obvious answers crowd forward. A TARDIS (again).
It's Science Week this week and to mark the event there's a little competition running. Details on Damien's site, but basically all a blogger need do to enter is answer a different question each day about science and technology. As the prize is a Nintendo Wii, which I covet but cannot justify buying, I intend to put my shoulder to the wheel and post throughout the week.
I wrote earlier in the week about some of the speeches and reports at the mediaforum symposium on critical media literacy. I'd like to come back to that today with some more thoughts. I can't promise that they're better than the ones I had earlier, but they did take longer for me to come up with them.
The mediaforum symposium on Saturday last provoked a couple of thoughts I wanted to get down before they faded away. Firstly, I greatly enjoyed listening to most of the conference participants. Given it was primarily a conference about education policy - something I am a stranger to- this was an achievement in itself.
I'll be attending the MediaForum symposium (minus toga) "Media Literacy Education" in Cultivate on Saturday morning and giving a breakout session talk on using the Paper Round methodology in Post-Primary schools. It looks like it will be an interesting day. It starts from 10am, and runs until 2pm-ish.
As insomniacs will know, a deal has been done amongst member states on the wording on the reheated EU Constitution, now branded more modestly as a Reform Treaty. We don't have the details of exactly what is agreed to hand yet. But reports of some of the novel inclusions which were under discussion (see the EU Observer's Personal data protection under threat in EU treaty draft) are not very heartening.
UPDATE: Good news. Where once there stood fustar. org, now gleams a stately pleasure dome that we may call fustar.
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