Posts from ‘May, 2006’

I have oft professed my deep love for flickr. I have been a user of it since March 2004, when it had that hokey black flash interface. I have uploaded almost 1400 photos, not nearly prolific as some.
But recently I was slapped by one of their policies regarding a new way I was using it [...]

RSS was the cutting bleeding edge in 2002, or at least it seemed to me. Few people knew what it was if you muttered it (well that has not changed), but very little of the things we are excited about now would have have their oomph without the underlying, humble glue, of RSS, ugly to [...]

I don’t know the words, but am ready to make them up.
Apple, grant me the serenity
to accept the firmware I cannot change;
courage to update the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Maybe not.
This morning, I installed the latest firmware update for my MacBookPro, and worked through the morning. Over lunch, I began installation [...]

I am about shoulder deep in trying to learn Drupal as intended for a new platform to implement for the NMC web site- obviously since it can do so much, it lends itself for creating a multi-faceted site with customizable themes, separate domains for different projects, and all the 2.0-ish tools you’d hope are in [...]

OR if at first you don’t succeed, search and search again?
What started as a simple task chewed up a good hour of time today… Eager to start dabbling in Drupal, I decided to get the needed parts running locally on my MacBookPro. I got MySQL 5.x downloaded and installed. I mucked up my root [...]

There’s been more then enough sound and loud reverberations to the DOPA (or is it DOPE-A?) proposal hovering over Washington D.C. to do.. Tom Hoffman has summarized it better than I could under Being Unreasonably Reasonable (and here too):
When it comes to dubious web filtering laws like DOPA, I think you should start with “there [...]

It only took like 2+ years, a big Yahoo buy out, and finally they have gotten enough kinks out of flickr to drop the “beta” form the logo– now they are “gamma”:

It caught my eye as soon as I loaded my photos. The changes are subtle (more previews per page, drop down menus to get [...]

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New Tech Deviceavailable on flickr

No, this is not another cool mini MP3 recorder– this is an insulin pump that is tethered to my belly. I am getting up to speed with the functionality before I put it in action.

It’s a bit larger than the MP3 recorders I’ve been researching, but this unit has [...]

The clever blog post entry title not used here was “Museum People Have Great Assets”. Last week I was in Austin all week, not to soak up cool music or wander aimlessly down 6th Street, but holed up in an anonymous, freeway junction hotel for the first of several NMC training sessions in support a [...]

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Chain Of Entropyavailable on flickr

It’s time to wax again on the sheer giddy glory of stumbling onto web gems by the serendipity of curious link clicking.
It started in my RSS feeds, scanning an entry on Net Neutrality Comes Home to Haddam in Mike Roy’s new blog, Digital Incunabula. I actually didn’t even [...]