On Friday, I finally rebuilt our Moodle server, following the power supply failure of the old server. The site is now running on the same server as the main Mekelle University website and so can be...
Last week, I was asked to go and visit the Mums for Mums centre to help them to help them out with the redevelopment of their website. Mums for Mums is a local NGO which helps women into work by gi...
A few months ago (March 09) I surveyed all the computer science students to find out about their access to computers, how much they used the University computers, whether they had access to a compu...
On Wednesday we will be holding the orientation workshop for the Digital Campus project, so there is much to be getting on with in preparation for this. The workshop is just to introduce the select...
Tomorrow (11th September) is the first day in 2002 in the Ethiopian Calendar. Just in time for the new, we have now launched our project website: http://digital-campus.org, designed to give an insi...
A recent article in the Guardian this week discusses the problems of (computer) viruses and the chaos they can cause in Africa. Alan Mercer, one of my fellow VSO IT volunteers was interviewed for t...
Seeing myself getting completely locked into using Google products, I thought it might be an interesting experiment to try not to use any Google services for a month. [I'm also still a little annoy...
With all the recent talk about Google Chrome OS and Microsoft office on the web, putting cloud computing back in the technology headlines, I recently read a less well publicised Microsoft story in ...
I’ve used Camtasia Studio (Windows) a few times before for creating some training/how-to screencasts, but now I wanted to have a go doing something similar using open source software (on Ubuntu Jau...
I’ve finally got around to allowing you to post a comment using an OpenID, by installing one of the Wordpress OpenID plugins. I had tried to do this over a year ago, but couldn’t quite get it worki...
After a long time of not doing much (ok, any) development on my Moodle online users map block, I’ve finally had chance to return to the code to make the necessary changes for the block to run on Mo...
As I mentioned last week, there is now a generator for our building and I’m sure that you’ve all been waiting to see a photo! So here’s the little hut which houses our shiny new generator: In our ...
Following my last posting, I’ve been trying to not think about what may or may not happen 3-6 months in the future, and concentrate on the immediate few days ahead. Although for info there is a pos...
Well, seems I might have been a bit premature last week in stating that Blogger had been unblocked. Seems as if it’s been blocked again - maybe just a technical hitch had made it available for a sh...
My previous comments about the computing ability of some of the Computer Science students may not have been too generous, however, if they’d all been given a laptop on arrival at Uni, something lik...
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