Shai Dorsai

My lovely wife has recently bought me an Asus eee PC.

Wee 7″ screen and a tiny but useable keyboard. Runs a cut  down Xandros Linux distro and works rather nicely on my BT Home Hub, wirelessly. And this in a cottage with 3′ thick stone walls.

512Mb of RAM and a 4G Flash drive - I’m increasing the RAM to 1M, and bunging in an 8G Flash card.

I’ve used it  on public Wi-fi at Inverness airport  - and much to  my amusement, I can log onto my corporate LAN quite easily - and this from a PC smaller than a hardback book.

I intend to use it to blog on holiday, and upload photos. 

When I travel for work, it will do to take notes, watch video and surf.

I considered using the webcam to upload a self portrait - but I have decided to spare you that.

Nice piece of kit for £219 delivered from Currys Online.

I’ve earlier alluded to using Facebook, and initially wasn’t sure what use I’d make of it.

I’ve actually been learning more and more in the last few weeks as I see what my Facebook friends have been doing. I learned about tiddlywiki, and its founder Jeremy Ruston moving to BT.

I’ve started using a Wordpress.com blog, imaginatively titled Is This Future Shock? (Yes, a nod to Toffler, and the paradigm shifts he envisioned), ,and found that I’m commenting on another Facebook friends blog about the change in internal communications.

I’d seen JP comment about Open Social, and next thing I know, I’ve spent an hour or so last night reading up about microformats. Now, if I decide to take that into my personal websites, I’ll be using the learning, too.

I’m learning more and more, but need to chat with guys in my community about how I can usefully structure my own learning - and how I can help open it up to people.

Of course, blogging here helps me think about - and will at least show it on Facebook.

Lots of stuff going on at RL work, so much less time available for here. I had a really good vacation with hordes of teenagers etc staying with us for a couple or three weeks. Swimming in the sea, loads of XBOX - very tiring.

I also joined Facebook to see what it was like… I’m not too sure what I think about it really. Lots of easy ways of seeing what friends/colleagues are doing; I discovered a relative had split from his squeeze… before his dad knew. Which must have unsettled his dad a bit… It’s all a bit closed in though - and only shares information with those who log in… any nana can see this stuff - and you don’t even have to log in!

I’ve also moved to a new ISP - the one run by my employer - and am now a convert to wireless, and am happily using the VOIP telephony bundled in with it. I’m looking forward to seeing how well the PVR works, when that arrives.

Knowledge Management

Lots of stuff going on at work at the moment, with a focus on improving life in our professional communities.

We have a wiki, which we’re working on to share some knowledge and experience, but we haven’t yet reached takeoff, let’s say.

Lots of interest in blogging, but mostly stymied by our continuing uncertainty as to what we should use; until we bite the bullet and decide we’re going to get nowhere.

Stuck in an airport? No access to your PC?

Aw,poor dear.I’ve managed to post directly from my Blackberry - which is nice, if a little slow.