Posts from ‘June, 2006’

Remember the “S” in RSS standing for Simple? I’ve gone through several gyrations [1] [2] [3] in trying to leverage RSS-ified calendar data to push content to a blog.
Calendar information is just not as neatly boxed like Title, Link, & Description.
What I wanted is a web-based calendar tool (lots of them), that I could [...]

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Poster Presenteravailable on flickr

Come meet me on July 12, 2006 to talk about our large format printing project at Hamilton College

Like the conference session converged with a Second Life presence we ran at the NMC 2006 Conference in Cleveland, we are again playing with that intersection of real and virtual.
We have taken high [...]

Following up yesterday’s mess, just getting rafts of emails from people (rightfully) worried Feed2JS makes me heave large sighs. This was a nice little project, that started as something to fill my own needs, that I lofted out on the net… and all of a sudden people around the world are riding on it, small [...]

Right now the server running Feed2JS is down and out. I have only the most limited, around the corner and snake up a pole access, but the server is toasted until someone on their IT staff can go in the server room and hard start the server. It’s just a humble XServe getting yanked and [...]

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Geek!available on flickr

Yes, he’s on holiday. Yes, he’s in a garden. Yes, he’s checking his email. Yes, he wanted to "work from home" the following week.

It never fails when someone asks me about working from home…. within seconds there is some snickering reference to, “working in your underwear….”
So funny.
Why does that thought [...]

I thought I was on the road of redemption with my new found love for a multi-button mouse, a Kensington Bluetooth PilotMouse. The need for this came as a result of the lack of any way on the XP side of my MacBookPro to right click anything.
The Kensington mouse I got had a great feel, [...]

I am about 99999.9% sure (always leave room for doubt) I will never be among the digerati sitting in the plush red seats for a TED conference. No dogs allowed, eh? However, I did, a few months ago, happen to be at a home of someone who has, and got to see watch on [...]

I should have never left the TV on.
Oh, How Could
??? How the ^#%$& Did the spirit of ever end up in an ad for freakin’ mini-vans? what kind of happened? Help me understand, !

I’ve seen those little world maps on other blogs that show where people are visiting from.
Pffff, I may have said, what sidebar clutter fluff. Extra bandwidth ego churning.
But recently, I was sharing some of my favorite ed-tech blog links with a colleague, one of them Josie Fraser’s EdTechUK, and my colleague was rather impressed with [...]

Sigh. Maybe it is multiple personalty disorder given its Adoption of Macromedia, but my Adobe PhotoShop CS2 Updater does not allow me to choose itself, so it can update itself?

Weird. Abort. Retry. Fail?