New releases

Just a couple of new releases and new discoveries to share with you today.
Nick Blundell (one of the team at Illuminate ICT) has made the release candidate version of SmartBOX 1.0.
SmartBOX is completely open source easy-to-install, easy-to-manage resilient, minimal hardware specification, and feature rich network server, with an emphasis on ease of use by non-technical [...]

Back to reality

For those who weren’t aware there was a prize to be awarded at the end of the ‘31 days to a better blog’ challenge. The worthy winners were the mini-legends from Australia (see Sue’s post). I was personally particularly impressed by the dedication of both the class and their teacher in using blogging for the [...]

Vote!

Quick post kept separate from my BB31 posts.
Rumbles - my local community cafe is in line for a lottery good causes award. Please vote if you feel this is a cause worthy of winning in the category.

Bah

Determination and progress. The brave battled through the cold and the fog (fog in the head for one too!) to attend the West Midlands ICT projects meeting (yes Susie; their version of ERIC) on Wednesday. I was disappointed that only 3 or 4 people turned up …. and thought surely there’s more ICT work going [...]

Fishy Tales?

Well, I’ve confessed… owned up… had my first “group hug” meeting …. Yes, I met up with EmTee at the it4Communities awards ceremony tonight, it felt good to share stories of how useful blogging can be … and how inspirational blogs are (but please visit other blogs first to see how it should be [...]