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Google is good. Google is great. I wish I kept better records of this, but I have vague recollections of finding some of my most favorite web discoveries at perhaps 3 links downstream of a search, or just by following a suggested link to one source and happen-stancing (random clicking) elsewhere.
So I use search most [...]

Whew! An hour ago I finished my one hour keynote presentation for the TCC 2005 Worldwide Online Conference. They asked me to talk about the future, so I hit them with a whiplash induced thing I created, “Harry Mudd, Small Pieces, and that Not Widely Distributed Future”:

I thought I had way too much in there, [...]

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The New Phone Book is Here! The New Phone Book is Here!available on my flickr

Taking a cue from the quote in Steve Martin’s The Jerk, “here” is actually our recycling container.
Can you believe in this age [...]

Who is better? Yahoo or Google? How do they compare for specific searches? YaGoohoo!gle, which apparently started out as an April Fool’s joke. is now more than a joke. Via a simple, familiar search form, this site will produce a side by side search result from the big two engines.

The author’s blog offers some [...]

More frivolity (blog tip of the hat to Kottke) for HTTP in tha House. You submit a URL, and the web site extracts the text, combines them into 16 lines, uses a rhyming dictionary, and pops out a series of random rap-like lyrics.
Real word use? minimal. Fun and randomness? priceless.
Here is the new CDB rap….

HTTP [...]

Although I noted yesterday that my own technical gaffs had erase all of our blog comments going back to September 2004, I did comb through the last database dump from early March 2005 and sifted out the legit comments for Sept 2004 - March 3, 2005, so the loss was the last month and a [...]

Next week, April 19-21, is the 10th annual Teaching, Colleges, Community (TCC) Worldwide Online Conference, or affectionately known as “the online conference from Hawaii where you do not get to go to Hawaii”. I’m ramping up to deliver a live keynote session on April 21 (see below).
The theme this 10th anniversary year is “Looking Back [...]

Arizona may not have a reputation for producing local independent movies, but Never Been Thawed may change all that. I saw the previews a few weeks ago, and could tell it would be a riot. Yup, I going by my guy and saying it is a good movie before having seen it…. Better known (or [...]

Yesterday I was trying to clean out a swath of comment spam on a blog we set up for one of our college’s sites, wiping directly from the database, e.g.:
DELETE FROM mt_comments WHERE comment_blog_id=XX AND comment_author like “%poker%”
DELETE FROM mt_comments WHERE comment_blog_id=XX AND comment_text like “%cialis%”
DELETE FROM mt_comments WHERE comment_blog_id=XX AND comment_email like “%mail.ru%”
It’s kind [...]

Hey! Have you heard about this new cool thing called “blogging“?
Well, shucks, it looks like the folks down at Blackboard central have stumbled on to it! Innovation! Yup, with all the expertise and license bucks piled up down there, they have set up “The Blackboard Weblog” at … Blogger.com?
http://www.blackboardblog.blogspot.com/
And all those Bbig Bbad Bbroad [...]