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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>K<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Know how you feel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>We have had a half campus power outage while they ran a new
supply and connected a new building. “it’ll only be off for 24hrs-we’ll
connect up the servers etc with extensions cords etc” they said, well 24
hrs has turned into 3 days. Servers were running at melting point. 37C in my
office. Not much better in the server room (it had a portable plug in AC in it)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Picked the 5 hottest days in 100 years to take us off line. Yeah!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Tech is in today (Sunday) rebooting servers etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Kiddies back on Monday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au
[mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kent Beveridge<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 31 January 2009 6:24 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Year 7 - 10 Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [Yr7-10it] How Obama Will Use Web Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>It
probably crashed due to the cold...heck, ours up here is protesting wildly
in this heat! Our poor old server is just about melting and the
email server has been taken home by the techie just to keep it cool!
How's that for dedication! Got to admit, he's been goin flat chat since
we got back, reckon he'll sink a few coldies this weekend...he's certainly
earned it this week!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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boss(principal)..owed up to accidentally switching off the air cons to the
servers...do ya reckon he copped a bit of ribbing from the staff (we all had a
bit of a laugh at his expense, he's just that sort of bloke)...hehehe...</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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that put a grin on your dial, it did for us up here at our first staff
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<b>Sent:</b> Tue 1/27/2009 9:20 PM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Yr7-10it] How Obama Will Use Web Technology</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The Whitehouse e-mail system crashed (again)
.. we probably should not<br>
blame the Obama administration for the woes he is having with their<br>
Outlook exchange system (ala Edumail) but I reckon that it must be a<br>
pretty frustrating technology hand over. As it was .. pencil and paper<br>
managed to come to the rescue.<br>
<a
href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/01/26/white_house_e-mail_system_goes.html">http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/01/26/white_house_e-mail_system_goes.html</a><br>
<a
href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/tech-glitch-hits-obama-white-house/2009/01/27/1232818396845.html">http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/web/tech-glitch-hits-obama-white-house/2009/01/27/1232818396845.html</a><br>
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Regards Roland<br>
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2009/1/25 <stephen@melbpc.org.au>:<br>
> How Obama Will Use Web Technology<br>
><br>
> Saturday, January 24, 2009; 2:54 AM
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-<br>
> dyn/content/article/2009/01/24/AR2009012400646.html><br>
><br>
><br>
> President Barack Obama was sworn into office this week as our nation's<br>
> 44th president. Despite running into a few technical challenges in the<br>
> first few days at the White House, the Obama Administration will embrace<br>
> technology in unprecedented ways.<br>
><br>
> Led by forward thinking, web savvy technologists, President Obama's new<br>
> media team looks poised and ready to fulfill President Obama's vision of<br>
> open-source democracy.<br>
><br>
> Coincident with Mr. Obama being sworn in, the Obama Administration's new<br>
> media team assumed control of www.WhiteHouse.gov at 12:01 PM EST on<br>
> Tuesday. This is the official website of the sitting administration.<br>
><br>
> The new media team has identified three top priorities of the new<br>
> administration, communication, transparency and participation.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/change_has_come_to_whitehouse-gov/">http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/change_has_come_to_whitehouse-gov/</a>><br>
><br>
> Let's examine how the new administration has been leveraging web<br>
> technologies to meet these priorities.<br>
><br>
> Communication:<br>
><br>
> This administration's use of Google's YouTube during both the campaign<br>
> and after winning the election leverages Internet video to reach a<br>
> generation of Americans and global citizens who no longer tune in to AM<br>
> radio on a regular basis. President Obama has vowed to continue video<br>
> recording his fireside chats and publishing them via YouTube and other<br>
> video sites. With the transition of www.WhiteHouse.gov to the new<br>
> administration, for the first time ever an official White House blog came<br>
> online. You can sign up for email updates from the president. Through the<br>
> blog, Mr. Obama is the first U.S. president to have an RSS feed!<br>
><br>
><br>
> During the campaign President Obama relied heavily on Facebook, Myspace<br>
> and Twitter to build support, communicate with constituents and develop a<br>
> core audience. By far, Mr. Obama has more followers on Twitter than<br>
> anyone else (168,000). His fan page on Facebook has more than 4 million<br>
> fans. <<a href="http://twitter.com/BarackObama">http://twitter.com/BarackObama</a>><br>
><br>
> Transparency:<br>
><br>
> Mr. Obama promises to run the most open, honest and transparent<br>
> administration to date. Through the Your Seat at The Table section on the<br>
> CHANGE.GOV transition site, the Obama transition team posted the minutes<br>
> of hundreds of private meetings with then President-Elect Obama.<br>
><br>
> <<a href="http://change.gov/open_government/yourseatatthetable">http://change.gov/open_government/yourseatatthetable</a>><br>
><br>
> Even all of the content on the www.CHANGE.GOV site, unless otherwise<br>
> noted, is licensed to the public at large via a Creative Commons<br>
> Attribution 3.0 License.<br>
><br>
> The Obama-Biden Transition Team used blist to disclose the names of all<br>
> donors to the transition project. Two key points of note are that the<br>
> disclosure was entirely voluntary and the tool they chose to use made the<br>
> data itself much more consumable by the mainstream public. Compared to a<br>
> plain HTML table, which is bulky, cumbersome and hard to work with, by<br>
> publishing the data via a blist widget the data can easily be sorted,<br>
> searched, filtered, downloaded, printed, emailed and even republished.<br>
><br>
> Obama Administration has been conducting bold experiments in interactive<br>
> government. The Citizen's Briefing Book, powered by Salesforce.com, has<br>
> allowed citizens to suggest topics Mr. Obama should consider upon taking<br>
> office.<br>
><br>
> Once a topic was submitted, other visitors to the Citizen's Briefing Book<br>
> could vote the topic up or down and comment on it. Voting, ranking and<br>
> commenting are hallmark features of web social media applications.<br>
> <<a href="http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/">http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/</a>><br>
><br>
><br>
> The new Administration has brought forth a new era of honest, open,<br>
> participatory and transparent government by creatively employing web-<br>
> based software from innovative companies like Google, Facebook,<br>
> Salesforce.com and blist. We're eager to see the use of these<br>
> technologies extended to www.WhiteHouse.gov initially and from there we'd<br>
> love to see more government agencies quickly embrace web technologies to<br>
> promote communication, transparency and participation.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Cheers people<br>
> Stephen Loosley<br>
> Victoria, Australia<br>
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