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A great (but simultaneously trivial) realisation

Saturday 24 May 2014 at 14:18
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Edited by Jonathan Jewell, Saturday 21 November 2015 at 20:42
Up until now, I'd assumed that no-one in the World would see this thing. Partly because it would only be the OU people who could see it, and secondly because I was really just messing around here, having a go at it here rather than a WordPress or Blogger (or, my favourite until lately, Weebly) site.

 

But, to my great surprise (and I'm glad I wasn't playing around *too* much), I found that actually, EVERYONE can see this. I'm about to start teaching, so I'll not be getting into the implications of this for the future of this blog, or its purpose.

But the lesson, I think, is to be very careful what not just with what you are putting out there, but to consider whether or not you even know what it is you are putting it out there at all. I think this is a 'truckloads more worrying' issue.

It has been said that you should never put in writing what you'd not have the whole world read. Sitting next to a very personal account in my personal diary, I'm giving some very careful consideration to what I perhaps should be omitting.

My personal diary, my public (employment) blog, and all the stuff I witter on about on Facebook, etc. etc. I have no idea what my profile is like that, and the concomitant impact on my own brand...I'm not sure what part of it is worse?

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It would appear...

Saturday 15 March 2014 at 11:36
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Edited by Jonathan Jewell, Saturday 21 November 2015 at 20:26

...that no-one is actually viewing this, which is disappointing, albeit what I have to say is unlikely to be crazy exciting!

Still, to give an idea of the kinds of things that associate lecturers do in their spare time.

Today I woke up early. I lay around in bed think about all kinds of things that would make the day productive and, after about 30 minutes of pondering, decided that I would push for today to be mostly focused in three areas:

1) Marking assignments (although these only came in yesterday, I feel that it is time now to start moving things along at a pace).

2) Forum development (including answering fears my students have about their grades and preparing for an online tutorial tomorrow...urg, a Sunday!).

3) Learning to program. Okay, okay, don't worry, I CAN program (so as not to lose all my credibility with my computing students!) What I want to do is learn a new programming language, specifically Erlang (Erikson Language).

Maybe, actually, the big lesson of today is really going to be learning about personal limitations, resource constraints and the importance of prioritisation. All the lessons I should have learned through 19 years of study!

FOLLOW UP: I've ditched Erlang, I'm no longer interested in that. My new language is the AMAZING 'Julia' which hopefully I will one day blog more about.
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