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Just a few clicks after posting about digging out interesting link information via del.icio.us and furl, a comment there from Carmen highlighted some more tools to my toolchest.
It had been some time since I had seen Durl, which accesses data from del.icio.us and eeks out some backlinks trends, a mini screen shots. In addition, there [...]

Whew! Today was the day we triggered announcement emails on the final reviews of our internal grants program, MCLI Learning Grants. This is a completely homegrown, online system where all applications, reviews, management, and year end reports are done online.
The task today was to run a script that rummages through the database, pulls the records [...]

A week silently passed on my simple IT help desk request (read the sad story).
There was now a consequence as the main page for our site was hijacked via the vulnerability I reported (see the blurb on this, we were definitely not alone).
So since the requests were not answered, I resorted to the trump [...]

This is one of those found be serendipity things, what happens when you just freely poke around the web. Maybe it is obvious to many others, but it’s new to me. Some folks rely on technorati for taking a pulse of links going to their content, and it sure provides some good insight. I just [...]

It is re-assuring when a faculty member investigates a new technology and runs with it. I got a recent email from Liz Dorland, chemistry faculty at Mesa Community College, and maybe one of 7 people in our district who read this blog (You are never famous in your own country, Hi Liz!).
She shared form my [...]

Apologies again, as this server, also the host of Feed2Js, went south for about 10 hours Friday night - Saturday morning, just like last week. I had found in the server logs where the services were crashing, but nothing to indicate a cause nor why it was able to restore itself. Given it occurred at [...]

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Hashknife Ridersavailable on my flickr

One of the many members of the Navajo County [...]

Now that the Furl-Delicious-Frassle-CiteULike-Connotea-Bag Bookmarklet Tool (a simepl web form to help you build a one click browser bar tool for adding web sites to various collections) seems to be working– I decided to make another tool. This one helps you create a browser bar button for quick searching of any MovableType weblog, as described [...]

Does anyone still look up number, business names in a big thick yellow pages phone book? Is that still the first reflex when a net connected computer is in reach? Two recent observations indicate that for many folks, not just techies, but Jane and Joe Citizen, the web is becoming the reflex.
We have a new [...]

I keep a pad of frequently called numbers near my office phone- there is a number next to a label called “Helpless desk”.
In theory, this is how our helpdesk works.

I go to a web site and fill submit a problem request form.
It gets routed electronically to someone who addresses the issue.
The helpdesk ticket is closed, [...]