CogBlogged from ‘September, 2005’

flickr fotoBrunchavailable on adrian’s flickr Turnovers, fruit, muffins, eggs. Juice.(Another fine free image from the flickr Creative Commons By Attribution collection. So for the first installment here on what’s been on my plate project-wise, we are grabbing a couple of related items that support dynamic calendar information for our site and registration for events. The whole point was to make it so we were not manually editing date-specific content on our project web pages, so as events passed, they would roll off the “upcoming” items list. We’ve had a mySQL powered event calendar running for our MCLI web sites since before 2000. The basic premise is a structure that provides the descriptive info (title, dates, times, locations, contact names, URLs) and a way so each calendar item is “tagged” or associated with a different project area, and as well provide a way of looking at all events.

flickr foto june-bbq 018available on my flickr It’s already past the time when our building empties out and I’m still pounding the keys here. With the start-up of the fall semester, many programs/projects needing support, a poaching and leak of our office staff, all is leading to things just piling up on the plate. I think I would rather have this plate of barbecue (another fine tasty, free, no need to ask about how to use piece of digital media from the flickr creative commons collection. If you edtechies do nothing more, turn your peers and faculty on this painless way to find interesting media under the big neon light that says, “Free! You don;t Have to Ask! Re-Use Me! Just give Me Attribution!”) Okay, coming up, in a completely meaningless-to-anyone-other-than-me audience I am outlining the things that have been on my plate recently, as well as the things back [...]

flickr foto New Jobavailable on my flickr I am now delivering packages at campus here! I am disamyed not to have gotten a chance for the courier position at Wintec… a colleague notified me: I’m afraid we have decided to outsource the courier position to another country. Thanks you for your application, we’ll keep it on file in case further positions come up. (Read don’t expect to hear from us again.) Don’t take anything so literally… I just got a nice email from colleague Stephen Harlow and we traded some sarcasm. This photo was from my 2004 visit to New Zealand. All that wrong side of the road driving was messy;-)

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