Wandering around cyberspace again

     And looking for ways to get a menu of pages to show up at the top of the homepage. So far unsuccessful. Although I was warned at some point in my search that menus may not go with my chosen theme. Hmmm... Maybe it's time to change that anyway. Further updates to follow.

New photo created on March 01, 2017 at 11:34AM

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New photo created on July 08, 2015 at 05:13PM

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Kabul Readers Group

On Shelfari. The members in my class will be signing up today.

Blogged from the iGoogle gadget.

edited with fast edit on the page for link URL and the tags I forgot to add in iGoogle...

iPod wristwatch

...actually, it's the new Nano, but it does have a clip to fix a strap to.

Shelfari vid again

Shelfari talks about OpenSocial Networks

Just joined Shelfari. Here's a vid of the founders.
I've also started up a readers' group for my students at AUAF. Let's see if we can get blogging on books and articles. One a day, people!

Oops. Well trying to add writing to the YouTube/Blogger link destroyed the vid link. The next post (above) was published straight from the YouTube page, successfully, as you can see. Hmmm... I'd like to be able to add text to this link.  I'll play and let you know when I get it.

Herat is still standing

For some reason, I'd got the impression that the wonders of Herat had been totally flattened. I was wrong. Thank goodness. I have pics to prove it.

Spent Id ul Fitr in Herat; far from the Kabuli traffic and potholes. There are even functioning traffic lights. Some drivers have even noticed them. Marvellous. 

Friday mosque erected by the Horrids; tilework restored a couple of centuries later by those extraordinary Timurids (Shah Rukh and The Lovely Jewel). Ansari's Shrine and Jami's Tomb. Many concrete animals, especially fountains.

We were very fortunate in having a student to take us around and keep us safe. The MarcoPoloHotel is a comic riot. I loved it. The two Yas restaurants are also recommended. A very refreshing weekend.

Arrived in Kabul

Arrived on 5 August to start work in Kabul at AUAF in Darulaman Road. Visited Darulaman Palace (ruins of, pic left) early on.

Settling in, getting used to living in a guesthouse, sharing kitchen between 3 of us, and a house between between about 18.

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I think. Anyway, see earlier in this blog for the precise name. I have no way to reduce pics to e-mailable (to upload here) proportions at the moment. Working on it.
As you'll see from Twitter, currently in Mérida. Astounding.
In other news: Timoti called from Hyderabad.

Spain report

Well, initial sign-in, anyway. Currently getting ready to leave Toledo for Merida, tomorrow morning.

Three nights here.

I was hoping to upload pics from the phone, but with roaming, it is too expensive. Internet cafes are too nervous to allow pic uploading. So none at the moment.

Testing again...

This time via email from Treo.

Blank

Tim Ferriss

Of 4 Hour Work Week fame, has this to say about deconstructing languages before you decide which one to learn next.

A neat process, taking an hour or two, preferably with the help of a native speaker.

I hope he follows up with more language articles.

Joining Technorati

Joining couldn't be easier.
You just get the html to paste into your blog (here's mine: <Technorati Profile). The post can always be deleted later.

Then unleash the spiders.
Yer just got hooked up!

Added delicious link

Added delicious link to the bottom of the right column here, to give the latest ten, no five, additions to the sharq page. It looks a bit cluttered, so I might trim the amount of info, removing tags and comments. We'll see... (Done!)

Today's header links to the page if you want to play with your own account.

Sharqing it

Not only that, you will also of course follow the del. feed. (Click on title to link, but I know you knew that.)

I'm beginning to use the del as my fairly controlled bookmarker instead of Safari bookmarks. See how disciplined I can get. The trick is to keep the number of tags to a rigorous minimum (invites furious criticism as to current tag set...). Tags are definitely the way to go, as we all know. And I speak as a relational db fanatic.

Sphere it!

Well, I just wanted to get sphere'd, sounds like they'll take a few weeks to get back. I'll keep ya posted. And you are tracking the RIP and the Google Reader shared page, arncha? An yer sub'd to the twitter feed, yes? Gerronwivvit.

Tinker, tinker

Still tinkering, never blogging. Here's a link to the GoogleReader shared page

And this is a feed.

I quite like this idea of a shared GR page, cos if I did any real blogging, 99% of it would be arrows firing off to places I found interesting. Most of my emails to friends are like that too. So now all I have to do is get folks to sub.

twitter arrives at RIP

OK, here's twitter folks...

see the badge in the sidebar
just follow the instructions