I fell very ill in February and have not posted to this blog since then. I've been ramping up slowly towards having a productive life again, but it's only in the past week or so that I'm feeling 50% and able to get any real work done in a day.

My first priorities now that I'm back have got to be finishing knotes and catching up on progress with our main projects and portals. I'll be trying to get round to some serious writing though - or at least some frequent writing :o). One thing that illness taught me was that there is too little time to be putting off what I'm really interested in - which is writing and thinking not coding.

My blogging is scattered across a number of our sites. I'll be posting soon about a "My Blogging Space" feature for knotes, but until then have a look at my sidebar links for an idea of the portals I am active in. I posted quite a lot in the SIGOSSEE site last week, especialy in the Standards and Architectures Working Group, about standards, architectures and open source software for education.

I've been doing quite a lot of thinking lately about web standards, web-logging standards, and educational applications or services like ePortfolios. Watch this blog and my other blogging for posts soon to come on these and other topics.