Buried Bones (Archive) for July, 2006

Citrus Apple

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 31st, 2006 3:29 pm

Sigh, I am resigning myself that my MacBookPro may be a fruit more in the citrus family.
Three days after a 12 day stint to the Apple Repair Facility in Somewhereville, the backlit screen is no longer lit, so off it goes again. “It will be a priority, but expect it to be a week”.
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The Man from Moncton Sets Wired Straight

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 31st, 2006 12:41 pm

Ahh, a fresh Wired magazine hits my door step, and right there in the “rants” section, who else leads but Stephen Downes correcting a myth published in their feature on Superman:
“The Myth of Superman” (issue 14.06) tells this tale: “Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster … created [Superman] as a char-acter in a newspaper comic strip. [...]

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Anti-Midas Touch Resumes

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 29th, 2006 7:05 pm

I am ready to dump all of this technology stuff and go to work raking leaves or painting houses. It was just last week my MacBookPro came back from its two week vacation to replace its fan and logic board. And now today, its screen is dimmed to about 2% of its brightness, so much [...]

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Odeo Now Has Audio Segments URL Addressable (Sort of?)

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 28th, 2006 7:18 pm

Just as Tim noted Google Video is making it so we can pick an arbitrary start point to play a video clip, now you can do the same with audio clips on Odeo:
Someone send me an email asking how to link to a specific part of a podcast in Odeo, which is a little-known feature [...]

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Start With The ______

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 26th, 2006 2:19 pm

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Cut on the Dotted Lines (1)available on flickr

Phase 12 of our pool remodel job– half of our decking is in sad shape due to settling, so tomorrow it gets jack hammered out.
Or this is yet another iteration of Levine’s Law of Presentations… "Start with the _______"

A visual representation for so-called Levine’s Law of [...]

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It’s Back!

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 26th, 2006 2:14 pm

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It’s Back!available on flickr

There’s joy in Sun-ville! My MacBookPro has returned, outfitted with a new fan, logic board, and something else I am forgetting. And for speed, I added another 1 Gb of RAM. Let’s Rock!

With all new guts… it was almost 2 weeks since I took in the MBP because of the [...]

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Blog Funk

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 24th, 2006 10:41 pm

Not that it matters on any cosmic scale, but for what it’s likely not worth, a blog funk has settled slowly in ’round here.
I’m up to my ears in various web dabblings, way behind in checking out cool new stuff from elsewhere and others, still waiting for may MacBookPro to be fixed, still waiting [...]

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Storymining in Dallas

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 20th, 2006 5:41 am

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Workshop in Dallasavailable on flickr

Materials, binders and laptops, for our 3 day workshop for the NMC Marcus project.

Storymining is the slick name of the 3-day workshop we (NMC) are doing in Dallas. This is part of our Marcus Project which is helping 24 art museums across the nation of Texas to become designers [...]

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Shocking Results in Blogger Survey!

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 19th, 2006 10:33 pm

I want a job writing tabloid headlines.
New from the Pew/Internet gang, comes Bloggers: A portrait of the internet’s new storytellers:
The ease and appeal of blogging is inspiring a new group of writers and creators to share their voices with the world.
A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal [...]

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Still Head Scracthing at Technorati

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this July 18th, 2006 7:46 am

I still cock my head sideways, stare at Technorati, and wonder, just what the bleep does it do?
Watching this blog’s ego feed, weeks went by and none of the “new” lights came up in my RSS reader. Then, some start dribbling in, but a few links are ones I had seen weeks ago, and [...]

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