Email exhortations and asking for help ....

Check out the [email protected] 2005 Conference blogsite! To access the blog area, log in using your conference username/password at: http://www.learningatschool.org.nz. The conference website, run by Interact Community Software, has inbuilt blog technology. This enables participants to publish their own contributions online, and also comment on the thoughts and ideas of others. The blogging area is intended to be a place where conference participants, keynotes, presenters, and exhibitors alike, can share, meet, discuss, and record thoughts and information about their learning journeys, conference experiences and opinions, learning, teaching, ICT, or even life in general!

Or even life in general! or even life in general! Do not believe for a moment they want thoughts and information on life in general.

Life in general is full of “like I said” and “like he said” … a celebration of inane - a turgid meander through unsupportable generalisations and unwarranted assumptions that help ensure we limp through life without engaging – Bigwigonfire is alert to the lack of impact of "life in general" - check out his latest post "Whoop de fucking doo, prince charles is getting married. The pope is out of the hospital, and someone save the children because michael freaking jackson is on trial. Does anyone see any note-worthy news up there?" Nope but it captures the genre of "life in general"

We need protection from expressions of “life in general” – protection from existential angst, protection from flawed insight, vegetarianism and the lifestyle of the battery chicken. Do believe that descriptions of “life in general” should never be encouraged or given an audience. Is fortunate that I have lost my password else I a might be tempted to record a faithful account of “life in general.”

So what is it about “life in general” that is attractive to a educational blogging community? And how does it differ from blogging “a life specific”? Is it all about “subduing all her impressions as a woman, to something more general” (Virginia Woolf), or does it require a post on a life spent reflecting upon the correctness of decisions; perhaps posts on a life in paralysis, or a life experienced through an excessive reliance on systems thinking and rescuing - arghhh Dunno but reckon “life in general” stuff should come with health warning.….

The strain of being acceptable is beginning to take its toll, -must be the heat and irritation from the incompetence of the past revisited today, but at this point even blogged comments on life above lieutenant general would be acceptable.

Still have wondered - “How long will it take?” Was uncertain but can now can tell you – we were rewarded today by “the call.” – Now know that it takes from November 9th to February 11th. Three months, ninety five days, 2,180 hours before anyone wanted to know enough to ask – the spirit of inquiry is moribund.

Long live revisionism and the ladling of blame.