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Now I am Comfortable posted 27 Jul ‘07, 8.09am MDT PST on flickr
New Puppy X gets ready for first night with her new family.

Puppy X needs a name. Operators are standing by.

Time to dust off your memory cells for how the Period Table of the Elements is organized — but now it is mashedup, recast, and graphicly spun into a new version where websites replace the elements. Get ready to play with the Periodic Table of the Internet:

It’s really fun, and interactive, and an interesting (and [...]

My $0.00 Under the Desk Organizer posted 25 Jul ‘07, 3.37pm MDT PST on flickr
Always in the spirit of being (acting?) organized, I decided to move some things off the top fo my desktop to underneath like the DSL modem (which needs rare attention) and my USB / Firewire external drives.
As much as [...]

I’ve been fond of Slideshare for months, and have been meeting to blog about how they’ve quielty rolled in social networking features, but their newly announced feature today of providing the ability to upload and synchronize sound to slides is the proclaimed Killer App Kick All the Others in the Butt.
What they have done in [...]

I am sidestepping some of my own blog advice by blogging something that’s not fully ready for prime time. Among my frantic evening time prep work for my October Australia tour, I am starting to weave together workshop / presentation materials I’ll likely leak here first to get some feedback.
What seemed like an off the [...]

I smiled as I sent this to the spam folder:
Hello my friend!
I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here (http://____________.cn) are bad.
Look, the site and call me 1-800 if its wrong..
My dog and I are still alive
Wow, I was really worried about that dog.
And they say [...]

I Am, Like So Insignificant posted 23 Jul ‘07, 8.52pm MDT PST on flickr
I do not register on Google Trends:
www.google.com/trends?q=cogdogblog
Sigh.

Poking around the Google Labs, I played a bit the other night with the search trend analysis tools they have there-might come in handy in some future presentation.
With Google Trends, you can compare the [...]

Our local paper carries a Monday morning local column on computers, most of the time covering those critical questions on spyware and video drivers for Vista. But the writer sometimes looks at the Internet (with a Capital I), and today I was curious to read the take on social networks.
You had my riding down nostalgia [...]

I had completely forgotten that I’ve had the bits installed on this blog to capture data in Google Analytics, which for the paranoid means your browsing habits are feeding the big G machine (not the purpose of today’s meanderings).
In fact, I doubt I had looked at the reports at all, but they do contain an [...]

My wife was at a dinner recently– she ran nto an old friend and colleague we’d not heard from in a while. Eduardo mentioned “but I read Alan’s blog all the time…”, so Eduardo, this blog post is for you to see if you are there- send me an email and our next lunch meet [...]