3 May, 2007

I have a new laptop at home now, allowing me to sit in my warm lounge and talk to C instead of being tucked away in the somewhat cold computer cupboard. It didn’t take me long to remove Vista and put Ubuntu on it and to my great pleasure it is working really well. Feisty is proving to make life nice and easy. It just installed the Flash plugin without any problems (so I could watch Mark Shuttleworth talk about the new Dell agreement to build with Ubuntu) and then it happily played wmv files so I could watch the latest NHL “On The Fly” episode. Can’t ask for much more than that really.

After a full on week at school I am starting to feel quite jaded. The admin work seems to be piling up behind me as the school systems seem to be crumbling. It doesn’t seem like a good thing but hopefully it balances out soon. Great projects and some really interesting work coming from students of all ages is making it worthwhile. Today a year 9 student asked me what year I was. I answered that I was a teacher and smiled happily but it occurred to me later that for a 13 year old to ask that meant they thought I was of secondary school age (or close to it). Usually 13 year olds assume anyone older than them is at least 80. I was stoked. Having bright red hair is probably helping.