CogDogBlog

It’s been more than a while since our return from visiting 2 weeks in Canada, so before all the brain cells rot, here is an attempt to summarize a glorious trip. I managed to snap more than 600 photos (tossed about half), and still they really do not capture the experience.
It is a generalized summary, [...]

Brian Alger has been doing some nice reflecting on the concepts of our NMC 2004 “Small Piecess Loosely Joined” idea- recently writing about “Weblogs: Which Pieces and How Should They Joined? (NMC 2004)”…
I would have written, but Brian’s blog lacks a comment function (I find that a gaping large piece, but understand that people have [...]

Audree has been busy…. she is the developer of the ePortfolio tool built first at Chandler-Gilbert Community College and also running in our office as “Maricopa eP” for the rest of our system.
Over the last few weeks, she has added new tools and features, based on faculty and student input, especially since at [...]

Once again serendipity on stumbling intoquickSub - a little piece of CSS and JavaScript code to perhaps add some more usability to the RSS links?
I agree mostly with others contentions on the problems with posting an or icon on a web page where the human followed link is a mess of inhuman XML. [...]

Just for fun, I added a rather small feature to the Feed2JS script/service; Curt Whittaker had emailed requesting:
It would be nice if the script could have alternate text if there are no items in the current feed. For example, we are looking to use this for our Calendar of Events - see http://test.sou.edu. Some [...]

Monday night we drove home to Phoenix skirting the edge of the active Willow wildfire and was awed/dismayed at how the smoke completely obscured the Mazatzal range– the front in the photos below was only 1/2 mile from the Beeline Highway (AZ87) and the radio was reporting that the Beeline was to close the next [...]

A month a go I barked rather severely about the disappearance of XPlana’s blog — I thought there was a comment but maybe it was a private email from someone there (?? my brain is mush, I cannot recall who it was) that fessed up that links to the new site were absent, and also [...]

Beware of long scrolling web sites that start with:
Attention: If you would like to get your Web pages to the top of search results (with very little effort), this letter is for you…
“Discover An Amazing ‘Technology’ That Will Give You An Unfair Advantage Over Your Competitors And Increase Your Rankings… GUARANTEED!”

with more of the same [...]

I am enjoying the last leg of a nice long vacation at our cabin in the pine forests near Strawberry, Arizona. Not unique in the west or elsewhere in the world, we are in the ninth year of a drought, and the forests are bone dry.
Just 10 miles to the south, the Willow Wild [...]

There are interesting threads to read on peeling the layers of RecentChanges in wikis.
While reflecting on the Small Technologies Loosely Joined NMC 2004 session we did last month ion Vancouver, I noticed that someone had taken the effort to paste a bunch of porn URLs on the front page, and shortly there after, someone [...]