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I watched a 20 minute documentary this afternoon on BBC News 24 about the One Laptop per Child program in Africa.
Really interesting seeing the parents saying just how pleased they were that their children didn’t go out to play nearly as much as they did before the arrival of the laptops, and were busy working. [...]

Just a quick note to say many thanks to Jeremy Keith, who came to St Paul’s last Tuesday (the 4th) to talk about Designing the Social Web. It was fantastically well received by all, and I wish I’d had the chance to stay and chat over lunch afterwards…
Jeremy’s written something about the day on his [...]

Interesting to see the types of pages that we (people from our IP) vandalised on Wikipedia over the last two and a half years:
2005 – Arsenal FC, The Musketeers, Wham!
2006 – Vitamin D, Retinol, Domitian, List of Star Wars diseases, Awo, Guild Wars, Nick Ross, Jason, Berlin Blockade, Photoresistor, HOAC, Australia, Care Bears, Lake District, [...]

More detail to come (I hope) but not before a list of the fantastic people we met yesterday at the ExCel Centre:

Thomas Vander Wal, vanderwal.net - thanks again to Thomas for coming and giving his speech Going Social at school last Tuesday. We met him again at FOWA and spoke about the use of the [...]

This really made me smile, guess it turns out Maths can be fun after all:
Teacher: “Well, I only mark a selection of the homework [that you do]”
Pupil: “Well then I’ll only do a selection of it”
As they say all over the web: “Hilarity ensued”
Nope, he wasn’t best pleased…

Just got home, so I thought I’d fill y’all in on what I did with my Wednesday:

Left here (Chiswick, London) at about 7:50 this morning, getting to Warwick (the town, not the university) at about 9:45.
Spent an hour and a half (yup, till 11:15) sitting in the biggest traffic jam ever with all the people [...]