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We’ve promoted many different times (see the Breezed NMC Oct 2003 presentation) the notion that weblog Trackback technology provides a simple, and working now, method to connect descriptions of usage of learning objects stored in “thingamotories” (or “repositories if you like). Or, as we deemed it Learning Object Reuse Acknowledgment (LORA).
Yet. while well [...]

There was dust and some missing pieces to my sidebar list of blogs I read regularly- which I spit out from Bloglines using their JavaScript insert to list on the sidebar of CDB.
A number of old favorites have gone quiet, and sorry, but have slipped off my radar, quite a few I added, especially from [...]

Appearances, aside, I copy others quite often… and reading Scott’s note on successful migration from MovableTYpe 2.x to 3.1, I am pondering dragging the CogDog up a notch.
I’d resisted for a while because (a) The blog is doing fine as as; and (b) I have about 12 MT blogs on 3 different servers and a [...]

I am not sure what he is doing with the results, but it looks like John Graham-Cumming is collecting data on people’s attitudes and annoyances with e-mail spam– check out the Spam Filtering Survey:
This survey will lead you through a number of pages asking about you, your attitude towards spam and spam filtering, your experience [...]

Just following the cue of Señor D’Arcy, here is what popped of the shuffling of my meager iTunes song list (I hardly ever tune in and cannot even remember why I loaded these)…
1 Destroyer The Kinks
2 Girls Got Rhythm ACDC
3 Polythene Pam The Beatles
4 Pure And Easy The Who
5 Love In Vain The Rolling Stones
6 Lithium Nirvana
7 Funeral For A [...]

Edward Tufte’s short course “Presenting Data and Information” is coming to town in late January… can anyone who has attended one of these or knows a friend who has (or a second cousin of their mother-in-law’s dentist) let me know if it is worth it?
Or should I just buy the t-shirt?

No, I did not have writers block or a novel to compose. Actually the email question was not even mine, but written to be sent under someone else’s name. Could this be Alan’s Secret Neutron Bomb that would eviscerate spammers?
Nahhhh, ya must be dreamin’.
Now, these are some messages that get generated from our 100% online [...]

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Arizona… Believe It Or Notavailable on my flickr

December 4, 2004 and it is snowing up at our cabin in Strawberry, Arizona. Yes, believe it or not, Arizona is not just shifting sands of Arabian desert, certainly not [...]

Spamshirt.com will help you make a customized t-shirt out of of your favorite email spam subject line… or choose from their library.

We at spamshirt have come up with a plan: recycling useless spam into sparkling new t-shirts! environmentally conscious, and a new lease of life for all that spam that floods your in-box….
Spamshirt.com was created [...]

I’ve written before about the sheer joy of getting feedback on a now 11 year old online Writing HTML tutorial…. see [1] [2] [3], but still get a warm feeling with emails like this one that arrived yesterday:
I have read this material for one month (Writting HTML). I think that this material [...]