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I feel like I just finished a double marathon.
Kind of like the trendy “speed dating” events (no first hand experience here), I spent two hours this morning doing demos at Rio Salado College, the Maricopa college that specializes in online learning.
Inspired by a session at the EDUCAUSE ELI 2006 Conference where presenters used Blogger and [...]

On a very off topic note, for well over a year, I have been dealing with an annoying, dry hacking cough. I’ve seen my general practitioner, and went through ineffective treatment for mild allergies and asthma. For the last 5 months, I have been to a pulmonary specialist and we have tried ruling out an [...]

Still catching up with piles of unread RSS fed stories, reams of email, I am happily taking in a few new web things that have popped up around the Maricopa web neighborhood.
Out at Paradise Valley Community College, they have set up a WordPress.com site for a book club - they are posting descriptions of some [...]

Just when you think you have exhausted all the oddly strange things people have cooked up in a blog, comes along just one more. One Red Paper Clip is documenting the North American (?) Dream:
My name is Kyle MacDonald. I started with one red paperclip on July 12th, 2005 and I am making a series [...]

Interspersed among the many nice comments to my “By Maricopa / Hello NMC” post, was one comment that ended up addressing directly with the writer, rather than in the comment stream.
Gemma had commented (likely via the first place to write) about her displeasure that I had used a screen shot and a link to her [...]

Please, let’s take the high road, and ignore any literal, body action interpretations of this title.
My pending transition from Maricopa to NMC is likely to occupy much of my blog space, considering this is a transition from my first “real” job to my second.
Here is a very odd thing about Maricopa. People stay here a [...]

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Fir and Snowavailable on my flickr

I’ve just returned from a week’s hideaway at our cabin in Strawberry, AZ. I deliberately left the computers at home, and this was my longest offline experience in 5 or 6 years.
The first few days were a bit shakey, and the sweats and convulsions were intense.
I kid [...]

This is a quiet Spring Break week at Maricopa (faculty are off the whole week, staff work MOnday to Wednesday), and I am heaving a rock into the waters, sending some ripples out. Change is all around out there (including Arizona getting in some places, 4 feet of snow in one weekend) and I am [...]

I like using internet tools. I hate taking care of servers. Today has been a bad jinxed day. Is that more Alberta voodoo?
For one thing, I loathe turning off web sites that are still accessible or even actually used. I have some web pages that first popped up more than 12 years ago. But I [...]

Dress it up with ad talk like “Dominate Any Market”, but to me Super Blog Submitter Pro is nothing short of spammers delight.
Is this a virtuous, noble, make your Mom proud, business or what:
The VooDooBlogger software is amazing in every respect! … Imagine creating entire blog farms in a matter of hours instead of [...]