iBooks Textbooks: Not Exactly Innovation in Education
Posted in News,Published,Teaching by steve on the January 23rd, 2012Read my latest contribution to TidBITS, a review of Apple’s new, and rather disappointing, iBooks Textbooks.
Going public
Posted in News,Personal,work by steve on the January 16th, 2012I registered the stevemccabe.net domain five years ago, and while I’ve used @stevemccabe.net email as my main addresses since the beginning, this website has very much been a work in progress. But, finally, at long last, as part of plans to revamp my entire life (and, wow, doesn’t that sound dramatic?), I’ve finally got round to completing what was a rather embarrassing work in progress.
Just as the cobbler’s children go barefoot, so it was both obvious and pathetic that a web designer and computer consultant’s website has languished lo these many years. I’ve built sites for clients, I’ve blogged relentlessly, but I’ve not maintained my very own web presence. Well, for shame, for shame.
And so here is the new, the revised, the all up-to-date SteveMcCabe.net website. More about me than you ever really wanted to know. And, despite being complete for now, it’s still only a 1.0 release. At least it’s finally out beta, but there’s still work to be done. While this front page is generated in WordPress, the inside pages are all static html; one of these days (and it’ll be a bugger of a job) I’ll get round to converting the whole site, and then I’ll add a “Search” box in the left sidebar, perhaps. And then I need to start uploading photos — lots of photos.
But for now I’m happy just to enjoy the fact that I’ve managed to cross another item off my “to do this summer” list.
My first article in the NZ Herald
Posted in Uncategorized by steve on the January 6th, 2012This morning saw my first article published in the New Zealand Herald, the main newspaper for Auckland and the northern parts of New Zealand:
Not, by the way, my headline.
Nine To Noon (September 15th)
Posted in Uncategorized by steve on the September 14th, 2011Tomorrow I’m back on Nine To Noon with Kathryn Ryan. I’ll be talking about the dangers, allegedly, of web surfing, and of modern technology in general; about the latest developments in the Domain Name System; and about iPhone apps that claim to be able to cure acne.
Thursday, after the 11 o’clock news, on Radio New Zealand.
Fame at last?
Posted in News,Personal by steve on the August 27th, 2011June saw my first appearance as new technology commentator on Radio New Zealand‘s Nine to Noon programme with Kathryn Ryan, and I’ve been back once, in July, to make a second appearance. I’m pretty pleased with how both bits went, and so, it would appear, was the producer, who called me on Thursday to invite me to become a regular contributor.
My first slot as a regular will be this coming Thursday, September 1st, and I shall be talking, among other things, about the ongoing Apple patent wars, as well as our own tech project, our new solar-panel installation.
Updates to be updated, of course, as I make more appearances.
Getting hired
Posted in Teaching,work by steve on the January 28th, 2010It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally lined up a new job — I’ve been hired to teach physics at Papakura High School, down in the southern reaches of Auckland. Start-of-year meetings kicked off this morning; we have the long weekend coming up, then the students show up on Tuesday, and classes begin in earnest on Thursday. I’m glad I got a decent amount of progress made on this site before term started, of course, but getting myself prepared will now be the priority, and so I’ll keep the site ticking over, but won’t be adding an awful lot for a week or so while I focus on my new job.