White noise
When my friend Andrew told me that the only way he could study at university was to listen to white noise through headphones, I thought that was the kind of…
Another bullet for Powerpoint
I was very amused and heartened to see that one of the answers to the question “Why do 60% of students find their lectures boring?” (an article in the Guardian…
The joy of 14 tracks
I wasn’t expecting to like 14 tracks, but now I wish I didn’t love it quite so much. Click on one of the icons to reach 14 tracks in a…
Multi-tasking (again)
Thanks again to Rebecca’s Pocket (see last post) for pointing me in the direction of Ear Plugs to Lasers an article in the NY Times about Winifried Gallagher’s book Rapt,…
Rebecca’s Pocket is 10
Every now and again I return to Rebecca’s Pocket, which was one of the first blogs I ever read, when I didn’t know what a blog was. Even back then…
This is my jam
The things you learn from students. One of mine was saying how difficult it is to use iTunes to find music choices with similar characteristics. Before you say ‘whaddya mean,…