Simple Ideas, Powerful Application

Now this is what I love about web apps. I showed a colleague the Google Docs system (we use Google Apps, Education Edition at our 13-18 school), and he had the courage, imagination, tenacity to use it to share our sports day results live on the net.

You’ll be able to read the article, and follow a link to the results here, http://learn.gcus.net

I love simple ideas, that are so powerful. An dI love working with imaginative, courageous teachers! Great work Phil!

Bulk add names to email distribution lists in Google apps

There’s a great little Python script to take a csv file and easily add addresses to email lists in Google Apps. It’s saved me (or someone else!) a lot of time, and was a great reason to install and learn how to use Python. See the script here and read about the mistakes I made in learning to use it.

Follow My Online Life

You can now follow all my online activity and comment on what I’ve been up to by subscribing to just one RSS feed.

If you’re not sure what an RSS feed is or how to use it then this video from Common Craft is perfect:

Son of Rambow - best film since Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Loved it! Fun, memorable and why God isn’t exclusive!

Freshly picked

Hi there - all finished! The magic includes semantic markup, support for gravatars (get one here), tags instead of categories, it pulls lots of my RSS feeds together in one place, nicely sorted so you can see what I’m up to, see if I’m online using the chat box at the top and finally, of course.. it looks great on big screens and little screens, including my mobile phone and on the tV via the Wii! - I’m a very happy bunny :)