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EXPO 2010 Shanghai has as its star a 130 x 6.3 metres animated tapestry developed by Hong Kong based Crystal CG. The digital viewing which can be seen at Gizmag or at Crystal CG is well worth visiting. On the digital sound arena, the WIMP application (Where Is My Phone) has been revamped and can be heard on You Tube.

Gaberlunzie is in one seriously horrible pickle and could be skinned by his editor for having downloaded some wonderfully interesting experimental software two years back called List-it, played with it quite a bit as it sat on the Mozilla browser, then in one or other Mozilla update, lost it. Only to discover now that he is severely ghost-it by the pop-up window!

Britain’s oldest public museum, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, has used Power Down technology from lthe Qubic Group to reduce the costs of running its 200 workstations needed to meet the increasing number of public-facing ICT initiatives (eg gallery touch screens), needs of staff and academic researchers. And if you ever had a soft spot for the marvellous Pitt Rivers, just see what panoramic vision has done for the viewing. All you missing is to reach out and open (remember?) those amazing drawers!

Scottish Universities like Abertay and Napier have no apprehension in taking coding and programming over into their interactive and games teaching and insisting creatives get the hang of it, which after some grinding of teeth, they seem to manage. So why are the journalism schools hanging back on teaching CAR, SNA and the like? Time for the Scottish Girl Geeks to establish a subset of Hacks & Hackers please.

Gaberlunzie can remember when he would sit happily for an hour (warm and dry) in a the smallish news cinema where Pathé films showed a timed, repeating cycle of news stories. Hence his vast curiousity to try out the archive footage of British Pathé's relaunch on-line on its website covering events in Edinburgh and St Andrews dating as far back as to before World War One.

Nancy Foy Cameron, wife, mother, impeccable and artistic seamstress, management consultant, thoughtful author of 'The sun never sets on IBM,' 'Empowering people at work' and 'The yin and yang of organizations,' one-time IT journalist and entrepreneur, as well as an amazing and wonderful friend, died at her home village of Blair Atholl on 7th July.

Gaberlunzie in the early days of Facebook was sort of persuaded to have a pet called Gizmo which could be provided with toys, fed too much and played with! In the way of all virtual toys Gizmo got sidelined and ignored. However an email from SPP which thumped into his box recently declares Gizmo's creators are running Vampire versus Werewolf teams. "Complete quests to earn Medallions for your team – the side with the most at the end wins a special prize!" This did not quite seem the old gentle style Gizmo approach to virtual, so intrigued Gaberlunzie tried to follow the links. The result, below, has him completely creased with laughter. Seems that chicken little wins out again!

Following on from the success of the Periodic Table of Videos on YouTube comes a new series on Molecules, says a brief EPSRC press release recently which is supporting this web approach to science. Gaberlunzie however would have like to seen a web Periodic Table which allowed pop-out windows with more details, graphics and information about each element. Video's rumble past at such a rate, that for slower intellects such as his, the read, look browse approach is really useful.

This summer, children throughout the UK will be helping discover just how many ladybirds there are in school grounds. "Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, Your house is on fire and your children all gone" may not be the scene, but the voracious Harlequin eats native ladybird lavae. Children will also investigate the relationship between ladybird pupae and their parasites. There is still time to get involved with the project.

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About to escape the office for some sun and a tea break, Gaberlunzie spotted this appeal in his in box, and simply has to pass it on. The bees need your mice (again!)....having won that conservation funding last year thanks to all your help, this year please herd your mice to click the bees out of semi into finalist winner of the National Lottery Award Scheme for best environmental project.

Commissioning a new website or making changes and improvements to an existing one, BS8878 (draft) will help you to ensure it is accessible and can be used by all customers, whatever their individual requirements says the current BSI Information, Communications and Technology newsletter. So it will be hot on how to shrink your web for mobile viewing for one and make it tolerant of poor quality broadband for another!

In a successfully defended doctoral thesis from the at the University of Gothenburg, Johan Magnusson analysed how CIOs at large Swedish companies feel about their role and about IT governance in general. Among his points is the importance of understanding a CIO's motivation, since this decides how an organisation manages its IT matters.

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Snatching at a welcome two day break to see the Western Highlands, Gaberlunzie was acutely aware of the battle that must exist to transmit and receive the radio signals that bring some of the most city centre assumed services, as in radio (dead hissing silence in the Great Glen), mobile phones (messages can take hours to arrive, text is often quicker) not to mention TV reception, and the internet, almost as elusive as the Skye rainbows.

Gaberlunzie was overjoyed to discover the CantYouSeeImBusy site - the only site on the web, it claims, where you can play games without your boss noticing. "Let’s face it; we all want to relax every now and then, but still want to appear professional or busy!" Though Gaberlunzie's grouse is an editor who never notices anything fun!

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