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‘Comical Ali’ rediscovered
The Iraqi information minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, justly famous thanks to his numerous and somewhat comical protestations at press...
Comments added
I've now added the ability to make comments on postings. The comments are unthreaded but do record who posted them and...
GIF patent expires
On the 20th of June the patent relating to the GIF file format expired. Up until now software companies such as Adobe, have had to pay to use the...
Saddam’s son has ‘Licence To Kill’
Not just one, but two copies of Bond film 'Licence To Kill' are reported to have been found in amongst the horde of Saddam Hussein's son...
Some other blogging tools
Some of these are pretty dire! Related...
Demos says “Get with 3G, UK”
The Guardian reports Monday (link below): "Britain's passionate but paradoxical love affair with the mobile phone is laid bare this week by the...
30 Years
...since the OU's first graduation. BBC article posted yesterday - see the link. Related Links: BBC news...
Calendar
Working on adding a calendar module to ROSTRA that shows the days on which stories have been published. Its primarily for the Blog version but...
New blog
This is the first use of adapted ROSTRA for blogging. The interface is basically identical with the blog appearance controlled by a set of custom...
Compendium Training for OU Staff
On 21st May 2003, a dozen OU staff plus a few external guests spent an afternoon being trained in the Compendium approach to visual problem analysis...
MnM Released
The first version of MnM is now available for download at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/akt/MnM. MnM supports the process of annotating web pages...
WWW2003 Budapest
The annual World Wide Web conference held in Budapest last week lived up to its reputation for internationalism and foresight. Keynote speakers...