Posts from ‘December, 2003’

Still working on the new server (see X Marks the (Jade) Spot).
I am stumped why a new Apple XServer delivered in November came with OSX Server 10.2.8 pre-intalled though the current 10.3 disks were there. I had trouble getting the 10.3 CDs recognized so blew ahead with the older OS.
That was silly.

I have a pent for photography. It was the last elective I took as an undergrad, and if it were earlier, I would have taken a different career path.
Blogging is great, but there are some neat niches for other flavors. Take “photo blog”. I recently stumbled along via legendary web designer Jeffrey Veen this nifty [...]

From Seneca College in Ontario, Canada comes a new Learning Objects Portal Page:
….a gateway to many resources about learning objects and repositories. We invite you to meander through the portal sections below based [...]

It is in the building… not only that, it is on my desk.
“It” is a brand new Apple XServe, and soon will be home to all of our MT blogs as well as hosting some experimental eportfolio services as well.
“It” is a 1.3 GHz screamer replacing an old 500 MHz PIII currently hosting this [...]

With all this east coast blogging about snow and blizzards and stuff (1 blogger, 2 blogger, 3 blogger, more?) I hate to tell you but today it was sunny and about 78 degrees in the Arizona desert.
We spent a day in t-shirts strolling the Tempe Festival of the Arts, a fantastic showing of arts, [...]

Satire is a high form of art.
(that was supposed to be satirical). Someone once told me, and I believed them, that satire comes from an ancient word that meant “to cut flesh.”
Well, that means that DENOUNCE NEWSWIRE: All the news that never happened is the king fleshcutter for faked PR news:

Go ahead, try and pronounce it… Blizg – The Blog Resource.
Blizg is a blog index that focuses on metadata. We want to promote the use of metadata in the blogging community. We’re also [...]

Just posted to the web is our newbie article “Pssss… Have You Heard About RSS?”. This is one of the features in the Fall 2003 issue of our mcli Forum, a twice a year publication published by our office for print distribution inside our college system, and electronic everywhere else (continuously published since October 1992-200 [...]

Yet another small fix to our RSS to Javascript tool– there was a flaw in (my) program logic so that the item posting dates from RSS2.0 feeds were not being converted correctly from their GMT+0 values.
If you have a version of this running, you can make a direct edit to both the rss2js.php and [...]

Cue the folk music, Pete…
Where have all the bloggers gone?
Long time passing.
Where have all the bloggers gone?
Long time ago.
Where have all the bloggers gone?
Spammers have picked them ev’ry one.
Oh, when will you ever learn?
Oh, when will you ever learn?
My RSS reader stays pretty grey these days. Many of the [...]