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Round Peg, Not So Round Sweaty Holeavailable on my flickr

The iPod ear buds work fine foir sitting on your butt on the couch, in class, on the bus, but for running in our desert heat, I am [...]

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MessPodavailable on my flickr

Every transfer of my iPod to and from my pocket or backpack results in this twisted spaghetti mess of ear bud cable. I guess I should just never remove it from my head?

I’d like [...]

Among the boatload of Chinese spam, enlargement/shrinkage offers, gambling teasers, celebrity nude photos that grace my daily email comes a genuine nice message today from Steve Dembo:
Hey, I really enjoy reading your blog. Definitely in my top 5. However, every I want to find an article of yours or link back to your [...]

Bear with me on a long introduction here, but later in this post I am asking for ideas and possible remote participation in an upcoming presentation.
In an email exchange a few months back, Phil Long had asked me and Stephen Downes (I am the little leg on this stool) thoughts on a presentation on internet [...]

He’s hip but he may not be available to entertain at your cousin’s wedding… see how Stephen Downes’ voice, Powerpoints, and a little backbeat are set up smoothly in a 6 minute video crafted by Zach Chandler at Colby College:
http://studio.colby.edu/people/zach/reusable_media_lg.mov
It could be a whole new art form of compressing presentations to their bare essentials and [...]

Mastercards with flickr uses the gazillion images found in flickr to create the familiar game of image matching. The site creator gives the nod to the version from Games For the Brain (a nice collection of stuff), but isn’t this really the old game of “Concentration”?
Here is the game I played using a flickr tag [...]

My wife rightfully chided me the other night for a junior high school habit of issuing a loud yell of “bulls***” at the same time I sneeze.
I have almost the same reaction when I read cruft like “Free Website Content - The Future of RSS is Not Blogs”- the claim being the majority, the [...]

Some hapless two-bit kiddie spam roach has been spamming an old Maricopa Learning eXchange comments script (it should have been yanked long ago, that is my own hapless two-bit error)– it did not do anything but send out false notifications to the faculty in our system who have shared their ideas/projects in the MLX, and [...]

I lost track of how many tangential clicks off what I set out to do on the web this morning, but cannot help but admire, and absorb more deeply Ten Tips for New Trainers/Teachers:
Just because you’ve used lots of software doesn’t mean you can write code. Just because you’ve been in lots of buildings [...]

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A Bit More Resolutionavailable on my flickr

No Photoshop fudging was done to generate this temperature!

This is not that kind of scale… this dial is the temperature in my back yard in Phoenix, and actually the thermometer [...]