Comments on: 7 things you probably didn’t know about me

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:40:02 +0000

You’d be amazed how many people failed to spot that the first bit was fake…

By: Laurent

Laurent — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:23:34 +0000

Just seen this *hangs head* will do mine later. my past is just not that exciting… might have to do a fake thing too.

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:03:20 +0000

As you’re a member, Karenne, you couldn’t leave a message asking them to read the rest of the post before they make comments on my scrapping history, could you?

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:33:48 +0000

Didn’t know that I was the perfect example of someone who is anti-dogme!

I saw Luke Meddings talking about it at Oxford House in the fairly early days, and I thought it included lots of good ideas but ones that were only useful in very limited teaching situations, e.g. small classes. They have dealt with most of those points over the years, including quite a lot of admitting that it doesn’t work for everyone, but I think most people who come to it for the first time miss all that and swallow it whole

By: Karenne Sylvester

Karenne Sylvester — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:07:48 +0000

I noticed that too – didn’t know you were into dogme.

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:34:19 +0000

Oh dear, someone else who both failed to see the joke and failed to read to the end of the post:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dogme/message/13576

By: Karenne Sylvester

Karenne Sylvester — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 06:55:57 +0000

Nope – some bloggers have this function turned off, it’s in the backend, settings. Basically, this activity could be used for spamming so some people prefer not to allow this -especially if they have their comments function set to automatic. I allow people to do this on my blog (because it’s more useful than cutting and pasting the link they add). You’re welcome to come test it out on mine.

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:09:33 +0000

In summary- you can use html in comments boxes even when it doesn’t say so anywhere?

By: Karenne Sylvester

Karenne Sylvester — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:05:35 +0000

Jim,

Jealous?

Sandy,
What happened is that once you type the opening brackets of a piece of code, it automatically turns into a link – so despite the fact that I added ‘spaces’ it still ‘recognized’ it as a piece of code.

;-) Karenne

By: jim

jim — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:26:28 +0000

Another TEFLer picking up a bit about computers and thinking she can get a job in computers. Just like someone doing a TEFL course and thinking they are going to get a great job. If I had a pound for every TEFL er I have heard saying they are going to get a job in computers I wouldn’ t need to TEFL for my pittance.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:46:20 +0000

Ah, yes – now I see… WTF’s it all about again?

By: Karenne Sylvester

Karenne Sylvester — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:59:55 +0000

Whoops there I go being to clever — am going to do this again but in stages so that doesn’t happen again

- type

should look like

(without the spaces except for the space between a and href)

then

type whatever it is you want to appear on the page here

then

close the code with (delete the spaces)

Does that make sense? let me know if not, can email you

By: Karenne Sylvester

Karenne Sylvester — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:51:05 +0000

Aaaaahhh… the tricks o’ the trade- speaking of Jim and his moaning about the lack of moola – it’s exactly this lack of moola that led me to learn how to code. A most-handy skill now leading me to better paying jobs in ESP:IT.

(I’ve no company behind me, clearly, paid a webdesigner to make me a template, teach me content management and css and then I did/ do everything else myself)… comes in handy now that I’m also blogging.

What you do is this – copy the piece of code that I’m going to type below and then stick it in your ‘notes’ on outlook (so you can cut and paste it whenever you need to) or you can put it on a post-it somewhere and retype each time.

Type whatever you want to appear here

;-) Karenne

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:37:12 +0000

Hi Karen

You did it properly- supposed to be on your blog.

You’re so right. All my mates in computers moan that they want to be in a different kind of computers

Talking of technical stuff, how did you manage to put a link in a comment? I can’t even seem to manage that on my own blog!

By: Karenne Sylvester

Karenne Sylvester — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:34:09 +0000

Oops,

I just realised the others were posting here rather than on their blogs, nevermind, mine’s on my blog.

Jason – cool on the sting. You hero.

Jim – get out if it’s really that bad, c’mon man or are you just another whinging pom? Fer pete’s sake, you get to see the world, dude. There is sunshine, y’a know.

Alex/Jim – and one of my jobs included putting tags on handbags. Another working in a warehouse moving crates from one side of the building to the other in Oz. That’s a hilarious story, I even got offered a supervisory position there and had this horrible vision of myself 20 years later, realized I had to get out and fast. Got a job on a yacht. There’s nothing wrong with TEFLering -if you were a doctor making the mega-moola you’d probably be moaning about how bad it is not having a mansion.

By: jim

jim — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:02:53 +0000

the pay, the conditions, the shite promotion prospects, the mindnumbing sameness, as you get older you end up in Middle East, the nutters who are your colleagues, need I go on

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:19:55 +0000

If you do your job as well as you can reasonably be expected to and don’t make the world a worse place by doing so, I don’t see what there can possibly be to be ashamed about. I worked nights in a factory making those tin foil containers that Chinese takeaway comes in in England, and wasn’t ashamed by that either. A bad banker has a lot more to be ashamed about than a good toilet cleaner

By: jim

jim — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:59:16 +0000

Notes:

3 -the country was one where alcohol is illegal.
2- he was going to photocopy it and use it.

By: jim

jim — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:54:09 +0000

1. I saw Rod Bolitho flirting with a young Turkish man at a conference and for years was convinced along with my colleagues that he was gay until recently I see that he has moved to Norwich with his female partner.

2. I was in a workshop with Jane Willis when she recommended a book. A participant said that he would borrow it from another participant and she exploded and demanded to know how writers were supposed to make a living when people photocopy their work-he apologised.

3. I was caught drink driving in a Middle Eastern country and driven home by the police-no charges.

4. I got reprimanded by Peter Maingay for getting pissed and embarssing myself in a bar in Cyprus.

5. Julian Edge gave me feedback to an assignment and said that what I had written was arrogant.

6. I worked with a bloke who walked out of a bar after a full day’s drinking and collapsed on the pavement and had a stroke.

7. I am utterly ashamed to be a TEFLer.

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:07:38 +0000

Cheers Jason, know that phonebox well. Were you the one sticking those interesting looking “postcards” up in it then??

Who are your 7 people to link and send the challenge on to?