Buried Bones (Archive) for December, 2004

Last Day at Work– a Present!

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 23rd, 2004 11:00 am

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A Presentavailable on my flickr

My last day this year in the office, and there is a new present I ought to be playing with… replacing a 2.5 year old G4 Powerbook with a shny new…

Today is our [...]

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Heavy Web Pages and Content Density

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 22nd, 2004 10:22 pm

I have barked some about “information density” something lifted from the Tomes of Tufte — in my web travels I come across some sites that just have way too much in the gutters, banners, et al, and not much meet. Since Clara Peller is not around much, I have to ask, “Where’s the Beef?”
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How to Stop HTML Thieves

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 22nd, 2004 9:15 pm

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 [...]

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I Google Scholar-ed Myself

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 22nd, 2004 1:57 pm

I’ll leave the academic wrestling over Google Scholar to the academics– I was more humanly curious what I could find there… so did a self Google to see if I could find a reference to my previous life.
Before materializing as an instructional technologist at Maricopa, I was a graduate student in, of all things Geology [...]

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Do not callto://me

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 21st, 2004 5:44 pm

Disregard my recent suggestion for making Skype links written has callto:/myskypename– My new Finnish colleague Teemu just noted that it conflicts with the ugh-ly Netmeeting.
There is supposed to be a way from the Skype Site to create a “Shype Me Button” ( could not find it there and had to Google to get close):
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MovableType Multiple Author Blogs / Contribution Lists

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 21st, 2004 3:19 pm

As reported a few times before, I have been prying time here and there to work on a prototype web site, that replaces a current, hand edited Low Threshold Applications web site with a dynamic one authored in MovableType. I am just polishing off a new add-on hack that uses PHP and mySQL to dome [...]

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I Skyped, We Skyped … and then Shazam! from Finland

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 21st, 2004 10:25 am

My call for some skypers paid off this time, the phone has been ringing off the hook… Just as I was checking email this monrning, I got the notice of Will’s comment that he had just downloaded Skype, and just as I was adding him to my Skype contact list, he called! The audio quality [...]

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What a Maroon

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 21st, 2004 7:00 am

Oi, have the spammers gone wacko. Bonkers. What are they smokin’? Got a notice yesterday one tried to insert a bunch of typical “win poker cialis v*iagra celebrity beastiality pix enlarge your _____ shrink your ______ bad credit erased” URLs into one of our sites that allows honest people to design a customized style [...]

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Skype Me

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 20th, 2004 4:51 pm

Maybe I barked and whined about podcasting, that does not mean I’m not interested in audio! I am trying to give Skype another round of tests, but cannot find anyone I know with a skype account. Is anyone up to some internet telephone tag? I’ll try to keep the application open the next few days, [...]

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More Feedback: Addy’s Designs

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 20th, 2004 9:11 am

Wow, bonus feedback. This is from someone who has used our free jClicker Slide Show template to customize and use for showing off their model design and fabrication work:
Alan,
I just upload my personal portfolio on the net that I built my self. I am so happy with it. Base on jClicker slide show, I modified [...]

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