Comments for thoughts of the driver http://www.dr1ver.net Steinn Eldjarn Sigurdarson on tech, tel, digital freedom and possibly his life Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:15:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 Comment on The debts of Iceland, put into perspective? by thoughts of the driver » New ICESAVE agreement compared to treaty of Versailles http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=102&cpage=1#comment-52434 thoughts of the driver » New ICESAVE agreement compared to treaty of Versailles Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:57:24 +0000 http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=102#comment-52434 [...] or insufficiencies of the legal infrastructure has yet to be discovered, and as I pointed out in an earlier entry, the cost of those mistakes may just be too great for Iceland to [...] [...] or insufficiencies of the legal infrastructure has yet to be discovered, and as I pointed out in an earlier entry, the cost of those mistakes may just be too great for Iceland to [...]

]]> Comment on The debts of Iceland, put into perspective? by spatula_s http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=102&cpage=1#comment-52343 spatula_s Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:01:05 +0000 http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=102#comment-52343 Indeed... whole nations need to gain some PERSPECTIVE! I seriously doubt that anyone in the UK realizes how incredible the impact is on Iceland... especially when compared to the impact the same amount has on their economy. Of course this is something the media is partly to blame for as most if not all of the news no not emphasize this point in any way ( nor seemingly even bring it up at all! ) P.S. ...and how is it possible I'm the first person to leave a comment on this excellent post - this could not be presented in a clearer way IMO and should also provoke some response, even if just to agree whole-heartedly :-) Indeed… whole nations need to gain some PERSPECTIVE!

I seriously doubt that anyone in the UK realizes how incredible the impact is on Iceland… especially when compared to the impact the same amount has on their economy. Of course this is something the media is partly to blame for as most if not all of the news no not emphasize this point in any way ( nor seemingly even bring it up at all! )

P.S. …and how is it possible I’m the first person to leave a comment on this excellent post - this could not be presented in a clearer way IMO and should also provoke some response, even if just to agree whole-heartedly :-)

]]> Comment on Upgraded.. by thoughts of the driver http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=77&cpage=1#comment-52340 thoughts of the driver Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:08:09 +0000 http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=77#comment-52340 [...] small update in reference to this, a post I wrote earlier about upgrading my WordPress, and also a javascript method to safely check if a js library has [...] [...] small update in reference to this, a post I wrote earlier about upgrading my WordPress, and also a javascript method to safely check if a js library has [...]

]]> Comment on Upgraded.. by phish108 http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=77&cpage=1#comment-51785 phish108 Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:56:59 +0000 http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=77#comment-51785 The code works nice if only mootools is used. What happens if another framework is currently running? I's assume that you should test if mootools may cause conflicts. The code works nice if only mootools is used. What happens if another framework is currently running? I’s assume that you should test if mootools may cause conflicts.

]]> Comment on Upgraded.. by Steinn E. Sigurðarson http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=77&cpage=1#comment-51596 Steinn E. Sigurðarson Fri, 03 Apr 2009 01:46:24 +0000 http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=77#comment-51596 Yeah, I cleaned that stuff out. Hopefully this will be a rebirth of sorts for my poor old blawg ;-) Yeah, I cleaned that stuff out. Hopefully this will be a rebirth of sorts for my poor old blawg ;-)

]]> Comment on Upgraded.. by wildcard http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=77&cpage=1#comment-51590 wildcard Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:51:09 +0000 http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=77#comment-51590 And no badness in the RSS feed, good times :D And no badness in the RSS feed, good times :D

]]> Comment on Turns out.. by wildcard http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=63&cpage=1#comment-51586 wildcard Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:58:39 +0000 http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=63#comment-51586 Two things (none of them related to your post): When I registered to post a comment, the WordPress dashboard informed me that you are running an old version of WordPress, and should upgrade, which is probably why there is a second point at all: Check your RSS feeds, the previous posts in the feed is normal, while this post (and possibly any following this?) get a whole lot of viagra spam appended to the end of the post. Doesn't show up in the actual post, but in the RSS feeds. It sucks, but now you know :/ Cheers Two things (none of them related to your post):
When I registered to post a comment, the WordPress dashboard informed me that you are running an old version of WordPress, and should upgrade, which is probably why there is a second point at all:
Check your RSS feeds, the previous posts in the feed is normal, while this post (and possibly any following this?) get a whole lot of viagra spam appended to the end of the post. Doesn’t show up in the actual post, but in the RSS feeds.
It sucks, but now you know :/
Cheers

]]> Comment on Some thoughts on game based learning by milesberry.net » Moodle at BETT and after http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=69&cpage=1#comment-51472 milesberry.net » Moodle at BETT and after Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:14:08 +0000 http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=69#comment-51472 [...] who’d travelled down from Birmingham to meet us, National Strategy guru Mark Berthelemy, Steinn Sigurðarson, Stuart Yeates, Gary Day, Terry Freedman and, of course, Josie Fraser, amongst [...] [...] who’d travelled down from Birmingham to meet us, National Strategy guru Mark Berthelemy, Steinn Sigurðarson, Stuart Yeates, Gary Day, Terry Freedman and, of course, Josie Fraser, amongst [...]

]]> Comment on COSELLO Conference going swimmingly! by steinn needs feedback! » Blog Archive » Re:COSELLO Conference going swimmingly! http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=64&cpage=1#comment-36430 steinn needs feedback! » Blog Archive » Re:COSELLO Conference going swimmingly! Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:16:53 +0000 http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=64#comment-36430 [...] was reading COSELLO Conference going swimmingly! on thoughts of the driver and decided to test out the FeedBack module we have developed within the [...] [...] was reading COSELLO Conference going swimmingly! on thoughts of the driver and decided to test out the FeedBack module we have developed within the [...]

]]> Comment on What is social software for me? by ainhoa http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-19632 ainhoa Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:56:21 +0000 http://www.dr1ver.net/?p=58#comment-19632 Well, after some different chat experiences, some papers read and a couple of nights working, I´ll try to do a more scientific comment here (sorry Steinn, I´m so pigheaded; I promise I´ll finish here). This is the point of view of a Psycho/Sociolinguist (more or less): Anonymous chat online is exciting not exactly because we project our wishes there but because we know the environment is a bit tricky. We all know that people lie so often, so we create an avatar for the chat and, at the same time, we are attending the conversation as spectators. So we are watching a film where we are one of the main characters and we rewrite the script depending on the other´s attitude. We pay more attention on the words, the communication expresion used than on the information shared there. What we say is less important than how we say it, so we need a very extensive linguistic- and communication estrategies- repertory to be able to set ourselves on the conversation. If the scriptwriters are bad and there is no co-ordination, people disappear, but what usually happens is that we meet someone writing a very similar script, so we start a "private film". Then, when we start a good online conversation, we enjoy trying to discover what those people are really like, so we start a linguistic treasure quest trying to find hints to know more real information about the others. What does it mean? That language teachers have to think a lot about how we can make language students learn all this stuff!! Sure a good text chat integrated in moodle will help us a lot ;-) Well, after some different chat experiences, some papers read and a couple of nights working, I´ll try to do a more scientific comment here (sorry Steinn, I´m so pigheaded; I promise I´ll finish here). This is the point of view of a Psycho/Sociolinguist (more or less):

Anonymous chat online is exciting not exactly because we project our wishes there but because we know the environment is a bit tricky. We all know that people lie so often, so we create an avatar for the chat and, at the same time, we are attending the conversation as spectators. So we are watching a film where we are one of the main characters and we rewrite the script depending on the other´s attitude.

We pay more attention on the words, the communication expresion used than on the information shared there. What we say is less important than how we say it, so we need a very extensive linguistic- and communication estrategies- repertory to be able to set ourselves on the conversation. If the scriptwriters are bad and there is no co-ordination, people disappear, but what usually happens is that we meet someone writing a very similar script, so we start a “private film”.

Then, when we start a good online conversation, we enjoy trying to discover what those people are really like, so we start a linguistic treasure quest trying to find hints to know more real information about the others.

What does it mean? That language teachers have to think a lot about how we can make language students learn all this stuff!!

Sure a good text chat integrated in moodle will help us a lot ;-)

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