On Another Note – Projects, thoughts and snippets

A quiet Sunday night here on the isle of red sand. The grass is poking green through the ice in my backyard, and i’m already making plans for the new sound studio I just might make upstairs in the attic. It’s good to have plans in the wintertime… something about the 8 hours of sunlight that we get here drives me to construction. At least mentally. Whatever that means. I thought I would take a little time and sketch out some of my other plans for the year. Some of them are personal, some professional. I’ll start with professional ones and, for those of you who might be entertained, you can keep reading.

Education Bridges
On Thursday we launch Education bridges with our first show on wikibooks. We were contacted by a philanthropic foundation called the Nord Family Foundation. They’ve contracted us to do a few shows in an attempt to start a dialogue on various educational issues. We’ve invited administrators, teachers, funding people and anyone else who will come to tell us what they think of the matter. I’d love all your support. Come out to the show. Post. Tell us what you think of wikibooks (or any of the other issues we may deal with later.) We’re trying to give the funding people a real sense of what we think…

Digital Library
This is a project that I’ll be talking about as the year moves along. Suffice it to say for now that I’m now the tech coordinator for the digital library at UPEI, University of Moncton and the University of New Brunswick. It is, I am told, similar in many respects to the Marist library, but more on this when i’ve been there a little longer. I think there’s alot of potential there… it’ll take a few weeks before i have a better idea of what that is.

Elgg Project
I really need to find the time to get my elgg project back together. It’s getting silly. I can’t seem to get that together.

The Empty Page
I must say i haven’t exactly been all that committed to getting my novel done. I figure mentioning it here won’t hurt. Any of you clever enough (or somehow curious enough) to have cut off the folder name for my blog have found my sad, lonely first chapter. By this time next week, one more installment. I promise.

Puzzles
I have a set of little wooden puzzles… 4 dinosaurs actually, that i’m going to make for my nephew.

Arrgghh… must close the computer. I’ve been kicking away at this beast for most of the day. Goodnight you fine folks.
no really.

I’m going to really try and get this and more than this done. i hope.

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