Buried Bones (Archive) for August, 2005

On Tiger

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 24th, 2005 9:09 pm

Previously I described my usual reluctance to be first out of the gate to do an operating system update, so until this afternoon I was still running Jaguar / Mac OSX 10.3. To be honest and repetitive, an operating system is really not something I like to focus on- a good OS should be as [...]

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Shoot ‘Em Up Talk Show

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 24th, 2005 2:04 pm

Imagine this- a full immersive 3D world where people from remote locations can share and collaborate ideas… and they can blow each other up. I am not a vidoe gamer but can very much appreciate the novelty, originality, and sheer sarcastic fun of This Spartan Life, or how it is billed, “A Talk Show in [...]

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My Favorite Radio Station is 89.7

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 24th, 2005 12:10 pm

I am now grooving to the tunes of the station at the bottom of the FM dial - thanks to the arrival yesterday of my new DLO TransPod. As advertised, it is simple to set up and use, and now in my truck I am listening to the tunes and talks from my iPod [...]

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Little Bits of Syndication

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 22nd, 2005 10:48 pm

Maybe some readers are all over RSS and massive amounts of syndication of content, but I am jazzed whenever I discover some small, useful, time saving way to make use of the Small Technologies Loosely Joined. Using free web content services like flickr, del.icio.us, Technorati that can travel the RSS road to dynamically update content [...]

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Thanks Lifehacker! Getting Out of Dante’s Descent of Phone Trees

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 22nd, 2005 8:32 pm

If there is one thing more vile than unwanted spam, it is the automated phone menu trees one is forced to navigate to deal with so called “customer service”. The ever so helpful Lifehacker provided a suggestion for How to get through to an Operator at Comcast:
After you finish dialing and you hear that first [...]

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On The Cover of the ….

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 21st, 2005 10:31 pm

flickr foto

Flickr-ed Magazine: Wiki Wiki Worldavailable on my flickr

More flickr fun! The Flickr Magazine Cover allows you to turn any flickr photo into your own cover. Why? Because you can?

More flickr fun… Use Magazine Cover to turn a [...]

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Stigmergic S5 Presentation: DIY eLearning Systems

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 19th, 2005 9:38 pm

Very cool.. Rob Wall, who blogs well as StigmergicWeb, shared, in advance, a presentation he did as a nice followup to our Small Technologies Loosely Joined session in Vancouver June, 2004.
In Rob’s eLearning Processes Using Small Technologies Loosely Joined, he makes the case for consideration of free, open source tools for creating learning contgent, [...]

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Hello Mesa Community College!

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 19th, 2005 7:27 am

A colleague mentioned the other day that they saw this blog on the front of the web site for the Center for Teaching & Learning at Mesa Community College, the biggest of the 10 Maricopa colleges. So surely I had to drop the work I was doing and check it out (egos need feeding, right?):

Sure [...]

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“Yea! We’ve Killed the Curly Quotes”

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 19th, 2005 7:14 am

Wordpress has the annoying habit of displaying single and double quotes using pretty curly quotes (nice little balls on the end) which are fine for the page viewed, but they also shove them in RSS feeds, which can end up rendered as all kinds of odd characters (question marks). It also crops up when you [...]

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We’ve Cracked the Bottom 500

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this August 18th, 2005 7:17 am

Sure, almost anyone can be one of the Feedster Top 500 blogs, but we are proud of their private message assuring us we were firmly based in the counter part Bottom 500, based on our poor spelling, endless babbling, dog obsession, weak grammar, and the fact we live in a warm climate.

So we do not [...]

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