February 2008

Wow, a month!

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This blog comes and goes. To make it come a little, I'm gonna try and post shorter and less elaborately (yeah, right, it's been elaborate). So, today, updates on geeky-life:

I got myselft Leapard as a Christmass-birthday present and have been running it for about a month now. I like it. I don't feel preview is slower, as some have pointed out, and everything I use has worked well. No problems. I am glad Apple learned from Linux about multiple desktops.

I got an iPhone, thanks to bluei and the coming of my birthday. It's great. Activating was easy with the many online guides (www.hackthatphone.com, especially), but unlocking was a little bit of a problem. Bootloader 4.6 before the 1.1.3 update. I bought a StealthSim and it worked wonders. I haven't touched the baseband and it works perfectly. I also managed to configure voicemail, thanks to a comment in this forum. Easy: dial *5005*86*yourcompletecellphonenumber#. Now you can tap the Voicemail icon and actually call Voicemail (my carrier is Movistar, don't know if works with the others).

That's all for a geeky update...

My class

As I did last semester, I am teaching a class at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, the school where I went to. I decided to call it the same as last semester, even though some things have changed thanks to the feedback I got from students last semester. I am also gonna experiment working with Knowledge Forum; Learning in Motion lent me a trial database they are hosting themselves. (Thanks Marlene!) I can only use it this semester, but it's a great oportunity. I bet I could try and convince some people at the University to help me lobby for a site license or something. Not easy in a public university bureaucracy, but I'll give it a shot by showing what my students did with it (fingers crossed). You can take a look at the syllabus by going to the Wikispace I created for it:  http://cmta.wikispaces.com.

All feedback welcome through here or there. And this time I'll try and keep my promise of updating this blog with posts from the class.