Buried Bones (Archive) for December, 2005

My Friend, My Hero, Disk Warrior

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 13th, 2005 1:04 pm

If you are a serious to semi-serious Mac user and do not own a copy of Alsoft Diskwarrior, stop reading this, run, out and buy one. Shouldn’t you have:
… the most highly decorated Mac disk repair utility ever. It repairs disks that no other program can repair… DiskWarrior is the safest, the most technologically advanced, [...]

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Pill Time

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 12th, 2005 9:11 pm

Hmm, the last slew of things written here have been rather snippy.
It might be time to see the doctor and get some more blue pills.

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Some Business Model

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 11th, 2005 11:09 pm

I’ve never taken a business class and come to my own conclusions on business practice based on my own direct experience. But shee-ooot, what do the folks in Harvard have in mind?
A few months ago, I got a letter from Northwest Airlines– I used them about 4 years ago for a flight to Michigan, and [...]

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Throwing Stones at the Wiki Glass House

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 11th, 2005 10:46 pm

First, of all, the answer is “no”.
The question is what Will at Work Learning poses in Are Wiki’s Inherently Flawed?. While it provides a provoacative blog post title, the question is aimed wrong, and not really even answered.
The underlying belief about wikis is that “all of us are smarter than a few of us.” [...]

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Inspired by an iWipe: Reuse Objects? Use Web Apps?

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 11th, 2005 8:50 pm

I was pretty sure I had seen it before in quick passing, by Michael Feldstein’s recent mention of Instructables led me back for a slight deeper scan:
Here’s a nice little tool, community, and design pattern for creating and sharing how-to learning objects. Basically, it provides a wizard for inputting text step descriptions and illustrative images. [...]

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She Was Out Sick the Day They Handed Out Common Sense

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 10th, 2005 11:25 am

It’s wonderful when real people can utter statements that go beyond what someone’s imagination can conjure up.
I live in Scottsdale, Arizona, a city known for its luxury resorts, endless seas of golf courses, ritzy art galleries, giant mansions (who truly requires 15,000 square feet of living space), monster SUVs, etc. The money increases as one [...]

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Yahoo-ing the Multipost Bookmarklet Tool

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 9th, 2005 9:49 am

Thanks to an email nudge from “Jamie”, I’ve added Yahoo My Web 2.0 to the set of social bookmark tools you can combine into one browser tool via the Make Your Own Multipost Bookmarklet Tool.
For those not even sure what all this means, I built a page that allows you to pick all the bookmark [...]

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MCLI iForum Released

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 8th, 2005 1:59 pm

We announced to Maricopa today the availability of our MCLI iForum at
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/iforum/
This is the first online version of the print publication we’ve run for many years.

This is all built in WordPress. Our hope for upcoming issues is to have people submit drafts remotely, but with a time press, we had folks send drafts as [...]

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Web Design Reason #10,375 To Hate Internet Explorer

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 7th, 2005 4:17 pm

PT Barnum’s rule lives alive and well that the buggiest, most inexplicable, frustrating (tabless) Web browser in terns of its refusal to follow Web Standards has the most users.
Again, I have found that my time in web design is spent:
* 30% developing a solid design in a web-standard browser such as FireFox
* 70% testing [...]

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By The Time You Get To Phoenix

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this December 7th, 2005 4:16 pm

Some people may pay heed to the title of Glen Campbell songs (who is a local, and has even taken tours of the Phoenix Jail) and give me a call or email before landing at Sky Harbor Airport.
Micheal Roy, from Wesleyan, and I have exchanged emails for a few years but have always missed crossing [...]

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