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2 p.m. monday commuteavailable on flickr

downtown dallas straight ahead, obscured by fog.

Ugh.
Arrive in Dallas a few hours ago, and its about 106 and 90 percent humidity.
I… can….. barely….. breathe….. I…. am….. swimming…. in sweat.
And what a nice chatty cab drivery I had. I was almost at the hotel when I noticed he had [...]

I had a bad feeling about the loud clickity fan noises coming from my MacBookPro. With the heat this laptops put out, loosing its cooling mechanism would be big bad karma for my work machine.
Since the laptop was still under warranty, I trundled off to the Apple Store in Phoenix, knowing it would likely need [...]

I’m just getting my feet wet with customizing MediaWiki for several NMC projects- sure it is easy to set up and install out of the box, dump the flower logo for your own, but there is sure a lot of stuff under the hood. There are a lot of flexible editing codes if you can [...]

Yesterday was just one of those reverse Midas touch days where every piece of technology I touched, so matter how trivial, seemed to up in flames. It would have been advisable to close the laptop, grab a book, and go outside to sit under a tree… but it was 115 degrees in the shade yesterday, [...]

The feed cat is coming out of the bag.
A few weeks ago I bought a domain, and with some hosting donated by Aaron at Modevia Web Services, the Feed2JS service that lives now at http://feed2js.org/ has its own home at http://feed2js.org/. All I’ve done is more or less move the current site in [...]

It just goes to show that on the net, someone is always finding things out for you.
Doug H was kind enough to let me know that he spotted on the Chronicle an announcement for the Instructional Technologist position at Maricopa I vacated in April. They must have scooped it from the local newspaper ad, [...]

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Rain, Finallyavailable on flickr

I hear in other parts of the world they have this word for when "water falls from the sky"…. Here in the Arizona desert, the first rare bits of summer rain are quite magical, and well worth stopping doing whatever you think is important, and go outside and just soak [...]

Judge for yourself…. http://aralbalkan.com/ :-0
thought there is cool stuff here like FlashAid

While mulling over how to move Feed2JS to a more stable, friendly, supported home, especially sparked by the comments by David, I am thinking a whole new framework is in order.
Don;t worry, I will leave the legacy… er, curent code as is. My own prime directive is not to break anyone’s previously constructed pasted JavaScript, [...]

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Rocket’s Readyavailable on flickr

Today was NASA’s third time this week hoping on good weather for the liftoff of the Space Shuttle. How cool it went smoothly on July 4!
I was among 70 avatars watching the coverage live from the International Space Flight Museum in Second Life (they capped the attendance at 70).
You [...]