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Recently I've been reading a number of the papers from the Maintainers Conference. I really enjoyed Lee Vinsel's presentation, “The Stories We Tell, or, Mary Poppins, Maintainer”, and found these three quotes from

What is time? 'the interval between two events'? 'a limited stretch of continued existence' This rather thought provoking comment is the opening paragraph from an educational resource published in 1972. I retrieved this

Last week I tweeted this.. "Britannia rules the waves""U-S-A, U-S-A""No. 8 wire"Redundant stereotypes that hold us back. Discuss.— Tim Kong (@timoslimo) October 26,

In 2000, I spent a year working with Tomato and one of the key points that John Warwicker often spoke of there, was that process mattered. When designing. When discussing with and challenging

How the Internet gets inside us. Our trouble is not the over-all absence of smartness but the intractable power of pure stupidity, and no machine, or mind, seems extended enough to cure that.

This article in Idealog featuring Kendall Flutey the co-founder of Banqer, is bang on, with regards to edu-tech design and efficacy in classrooms. Design She says Banqer is not actively trying to enter

Two thirds of our 600 kids learning #science & #technology @OMGTechRangers this weekend are from decile 1-4 schools — Nanogirl (@medickinson) May 21, 2016 So this tweet from Michelle Dickinson gets 50 odd

Via SB Nation In the grand scheme of the championship, that one point didn't mean anything. But really it meant everything. We're often quick to dismiss sport in schools. For the media driven

Dan Willingham's The False Promise of Tech in Schools has a number of salient points, that it's useful to remind ourselves to pay attention too. My thoughts then. Our gut feelings/intuition about

"Aesthetics are your problem and mine. Nobody else’s. The fact of the matter is, I want everything we do — that I do personally, that our office does — to be beautiful. I

I grew up flying, born in NZ but flew away when I was 3, lived across SE Asia until I was 18. My passports were filled with stamps, with extensions and with places

On Maintaining Following a lead from Courtney's post this essay Hail the Maintainers really resonated. Entire societies have come to talk about innovation as if it were an inherently desirable value, like love,

Rowan tweeted me this yesterday, @timoslimo you called it... https://t.co/8cKAlX3U7E— Rowan Simpson (@rowansimpson) April 29, 2016 Which was in relation to this tweet I sent to him during the

It was the waves, the dull sound, not a roar, but a rumble. A sound dissipated by the distance we were from the surf. Rolling in, deep, smooth swells. Breaking onto rocks, jagged

In 1996, I moved to Auckland to work for an audio-visual company. I was 22 and my starting salary was about $45,000NZD. In the same year Kobe Bryant moved to LA and

Jordan Spieth's quadruple bogey seven on the 12th hole at Augusta is dominating all the headlines right now. His efforts on that hole, will be probably more widely discussed than those of Danny

I'm really enjoying listening to Bill's re-booted podcast after his exit from the ESPN stable. He always has a great way of eliciting wide ranging conversations from his guests. As someone with an