Posts from ‘May, 2005’

Holy _____. Flickr has done it again, rolling some cool interface features. First of all, great news for folks like Stephen, flickr photos are no longer rendered in Flash, but in DHTML; see From Flash to DHTML (on some pages!).
Also, they have expanded the in-page editing to the Blog This and Send button functionalities. This [...]

Since I am up in Strawberry on my 28 kbps straw to the internet, I will not be able to grab this cast, but from the description, looks worth a listen (as well as the Y.uk? blog itself: “Well the answer is – Why Not or Y.not? I guess it is a tongue in cheek [...]

From a recent email discussion came a request for a simple “howto” for using bitTorrent. I’ve been peripherally  interested in BT for a while, mentioning it in my Harry Mudd Future Peeking presentation.
So with much better things to with my time, I whipped up this ad for a book not yet in stores:

If we could [...]

This weekend my wife and I are taking care of a friend’s 10 year old daughter, and in just 24 hours it has been a mind opening opportunity to see how she uses/absorbs technology among other things- to a 10 year old, it seems like everything is fascinating and worth exploring (where do we lose [...]

So it was time to put my money where my snout was… After waffling about screencasting, I decided to give it a go. Downloading the Windows Media Encoder was not too bad. I played a bit, not really sure of the various settings for the encoding.
Anyhow, I recorded an 11 minute quick attempt at showing [...]

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Do I Have To Sacrifce A Virgin To Install Windows Software?available on my flickr

Just out of curiosity, I attempted to install the Windows “Photo Story 3″ on my Dell laptop. I was unsuccessful at convincing Microsoft Windows [...]

If you’ve not been tapping into some of the screencasts being published by Jon Udell, you are missing out on a great phenomena achieved with free desktop software. This under 3 minute piece documents very clearly the power of a simple JavaScript / bookmarklet tool for managing web site password logins.
But the subject, while neat, [...]

He’s baaaaaaaaaaack. That Biff Cantrell dude who chalked up a March 2004 hour long Breezed tour of the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX).
He chopped out a lot of stuff, updated some images and links, and created a mini tour of the different kinds of RSS feeds in the MLX as a demo for the May 17 [...]

We’re one week away from my biggest yearly event responsibility, our annual Ocotillo Retreat. These go back before I started at Maricopa, though my first week on the job was the 1992 retreat at Mormon Lake, AZ.
For those not familiar with Ocotillo (go ahead, try and pronounce it it is our long standing [...]

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Road 1 Skin 0available on my flickr

This is trivial as far as road rash– just my mental record of what it means when you are learning to bicycle with cleated shoes….

I keep meaning to write some relative [...]