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Thanks to our 4 day summer work week, I had today free to volunteer for Scottsdale’s Mighty Mud Mania, a 21-year old event that draws more than 10,000 kids to romp through obstacle courses full of gooey mud. It began in the 1970s as some promotion for a cleaning product, but has grown to be [...]

In regards to the yesterday’s bike accomplishment, make that two in a row. Today was uneventful, the only encounters were with a covey of quail along the Arizona Canal.
When we bicycle, we are all Lance, careening down the cobblestone roads at 50 mph, accelerating our way up the French Alps, arms raised in yellow jacket [...]

A faculty member I am nudging into blogging shared this beautiful essay about blogging, Show Me Your Context, Baby: My Love Affair with Blogs by Kate Baggott. I would try to summarize, but this award winning essay says it all:
Show me your context, baby. I already know the world you live in; tell [...]

Completely unrelated to technology… Today, after two months of excuses and ignoring the messages from Mirror Mirror on the Wall, I got back on the bicycle for my 11 mile commute to work.
And today’s weather was so… optimal? Here in Phoenix we are expecting a record high of 112 F, and once you add in [...]

At least someone out there is reading my drivel. Todd Slater responded to the call for CSS Bonsai Gardens and quickly shared a new style available for anyone, “ZanestatefeedsYahoo”. I added some tweaks that allow me to share a demo of what this new feed looks like.
Check it out!
Thanks Todd, first out of the gate!

A frequent question we get from our Writing HTML tutorial is:
“what code can I use to prevent people from viewing/stealing the source code of my web pages?”
and the answer is very similar to what i say to people when they want to protect their images on web pages from being stolen- if you do [...]

Just stumbled into LiteraryMoose, who minces no words about The Misery of Open-Source Software or Why I don’t Use Wordpress
This document collects some thoughts on WordPress 1.2, supposedly the greatest invention since sliced ice cubes. What they claim on their front page, is argued point by point, based on my personal experiences and the [...]

I have just twiddled some new tools to help users of Feed2JS to create their customized styles for output created by this service/script. In a total and polite rip off of the css Zen Garden site, I am hoping some designers out there might mess around with the new style tools and submit some new [...]

It’s been our belief that it would take time for our Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) to reach that magical tipping point, critical mass- when it contained enough content, resources, objects, ideas that our users could easily find something useful for themselves that they would be self-compelled to add their own stuff. I had MERLOT-ian aspirations.
Are [...]

Thanks to six of you who took up my offer to complete a silly survey inside my eportfolio. Well, there is one ringer in there, at least. And someone else got very serious about answering the open ended questions, but helped us clear up a bug.
So not only can you create a survey to exisit [...]