Chris Valentine

Saddam’s son has ‘Licence To Kill’

Not just one, but two copies of Bond film &#39Licence To Kill&#39 are reported to have been found in amongst the horde of Saddam Hussein&#39s son Uday. Coalition troops recently uncovered a collection of Uday&#39s personal belongings during searching exercises. The 1989 film which starred Timmy Dalton as 007 must have struct a chord with…

Some other blogging tools

Some of these are pretty dire! Related Links: http://www.blogdot.org/http://www.blogeasy.com/http://www.bloggingnetwork.com/http://m-blog.com/http://www.blogspot.com/

30 Years

…since the OU&#39s first graduation. BBC article posted yesterday – see the link. Related Links: BBC news article

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 will probably be of use for other ROSTRAs.

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 templates. There are no topics to the stories and you cannot apply story publishing and expiry dates.

OU helps celebrate Second citischool Graduation

Open University Vice-Chancellor Professor Brenda Gourley and the newly-installed Mayor for Milton Keynes attended citischool&#39s second graduation ceremony at the National Hockey Stadium on Thursday evening.The OU contribute to the citischool project in a number of ways including temporary work placement, and KMi have developed and continue to host their Internet-based project management suite. Photo…

Practising Knowledge Art seminar

Al Selvin, Senior Manager in the Information Technology Group at Verizon Communications, today presented a visiting speaker seminar on &#39Practising Knowledge Art&#39 at KMi&#39s Podium. Creating and producing situated knowledge artifacts – for example, creating a model of a problem unique to a single group or organization – involves a range of roles and skills….

Lorenzo conquers Lhotse

The Lhotse Team is safely back in Camp 4 after reaching the 8511m peak of the world&#39s fourth tallest mountain this morning. It was a cold windy day, but Lorenzo, fellow climber John and their sherpas Pasang Nuru and Pemda Chirri all summited Lhotse in less than eight hours. Other climbers under expedition leader Scott…

Lorenzo at Camp 2

“The hardest nine hours of my climbing career” quotes Lorenzo who is once again at Camp 2, acclimatising for his ascent of Lhotse. He is starting to feel the strain from repetitive climbs at high alititude. Unfortunately the weather has taken a turn for the worst, with a heavy fall of new snow and stronger…

Lorenzo at altitude

“Better than a theme park but not as safe” quipped intrepid mountaineer Lorenzo Gariano in his most recent phone message from the shadow of Everest. He and his small party had just returned from a traverse of the Khumbu Icefall – basically a live, moving glacier whose gaping cravasses have to be negotiated with ladders…