Publications, Return to Study, A Sense of Social Life

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Finished off my notes on IT Development in East Timor and my paper on citizenship, decentralisation and universal rights, both of which have been submitted to the Development Studies Bulletin for publication in a special issue on the conference. Also have finished and submitted a paper on Windows 2003 Server and Release 2 for the SAGE-AU journal.

I've reduced the number of hours I'm working because, in all honesty, I need the time more than the money. People keep giving me contracts however, with another three this week alone. I have to pick a Wiki for a local council. At the moment I'm using the original for the trial. Any preferred models?

As part of this venture I've decided to have another crack at getting a CCNA by enrolling at NMIT. This is, of course, on top of my list of unfinished projects, not helped by my decision to keep on working as convenor of Labor for Refugees and to rejoin the SAGE-AU executive.

Went out drinking last night with the crew from 2600.au, caseopaya and new gamer pal, Andrei, who has kindly let me HeroQuest which seems a lot better than the first edition, Hero Wars. Other gaming goes well, with the pbem group finally reaching Borobudur after encountering Hanuman on the way.

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[reddragdiva]

MediaWiki, as used by Wikipedia, really is the only way to live.

It runs on top of Apache, MySQL and PHP. For the sysadmin, it really is stupidly easy to install - unzip the tarball into your htdocs directory, open permissions on the config directory, open the setup page in a browser, close permissions on the config directory.

If you're in an environment that demands Windows, it runs fine on that too. It's about a quarter of the performance, but once they're hooked you can just slide the OS out from under and substitute your *nix-of-choice and immediately everything's four times better ;-)

Other advantage: because Wikipedia uses it and it's really easy to install, it's becoming very popular indeed for new wikis. So if people bother learning the syntax, it'll be useful to them on lots of other wikis.

Disadvantage: it's not quite a wiki the way the PPR is: it's optimised for building reference works. This depends what you want. Mind you, lots of places use it for live documentation and coordination of technical teams okay.

[bodgirl.livejournal.com]

*hands you a french loaf*

[vasco-pyjama.livejournal.com]

Heh. Another missed opportunity to meet IRL. I was meant to go to that East Timor conference two weeks back, but I was one of the ones that got bumped off because it was too full. Heh.