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Not everyone can afford Camtasia and screencast like a pro. And it is PeeCee only.
There are other ways to do simple presentations of how to do tasks on a computer. Someone named “djweinstein” has done some elegant tutorials on how to do things in Audacity, by posting them as a flickr set, which can then [...]

I like this new job.
My day started as early as normal, with the first chore (coffee making) and than a solid hour run to clear the mind. Then it was the tough choices. Which jeans to slip on? Or just lounge in boxers? Shave or not? (I took jeans and a shave, it is still [...]

Frequent readers may know I have been a fan of the iRiver tiny MP3 players for their recording capability. I had purchased two for us in my last job, and just from a meeting last week, saw that another colleague at Maricopa had purchased one for doing some audio recording.
See, the folks at iRiver [...]

As part of my transition, I have moved my Multibookmarklet Maker to the CogDogBlog domain. This was a tool I made back in January 2005, to allow one bookmarklet (browser bookmark tool) me able to be customized to allow posting to multiple web bookmark manager sites from one click, e.g. to add a given site [...]

Technically, this weekend, I was un-employed.
Last week I was cleaning my office at Maricopa, digitizing old silly artifacts, tossing files, and trying to organize 14 years of web sites.
Thursday, was an open house at our office, and I was overwhelmed by the people who paraded by to wish me well. And [...]

Sometimes, or maybe frequently, a post here is done rather rashly, impulsively, and often stupidly wrong. I step in my own dog poop.
There’s nice places on the net where nice people say only nice things. Not here. Hopefully reader glean my “style” as my way of trying to provoke discussion, controversy, and get a reaction. [...]

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Spam!available on flickr

The photographer of this Creative Commons licensed image “found this Spam can in a 7 Eleven in Santa María.”

Yesterday, I was upstairs checking an issue on one of our web servers. I ran into Yosef, who is in charge of our email system. He was sharing the success of some [...]

Because the movie about dentists was such a gag fest, I am tweaking my post title to lob some rocks at Apple.
But before that, my long disclaimer.
I love Apple products. I am one who’s “stone cold death grip” would be clamped on a PowerBook. I’ve done programming, multimedia, CD-ROMs, internet-ing all in the Mac OS [...]

We are prepping the Spring 2006 issue of our MCLI iForum, the online publication we generate via WordPress.
Actually “prepping” means begging, nagging, cajoling people to actually write something (rather than copy and paste a summary of events that already exist on other web sites).
Anyhow, as a preview (not exactly linked from the front entrance), [...]

And who keeps flicking the Gmail switch?

I am reminded of the quote from the philosopher Steven Wright:
In my house there’s this light switch that doesn’t do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check.
Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said, “Cut it out.” [...]