Posts from ‘September, 2007’

I Hear Voices

The voices are not real but they do have some good ideas posted 11 Mar ‘07, 3.10pm MDT PST on flickr
Latest sign no the Beaverton-Hillsdale highway.
The sign is in Portland, Oregon. (On the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway,
between Portland and Beaverton). I have no affiliation – I just drive
or ride the bus past the sign most [...]

Tire Shop Philosophy

Horrible Example posted 15 Feb ‘05, 8.49am MST PST on flickr
"Either be a good example or a horrible warning"
Latest sign on the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway. This is hard to photograph from the bus -it has to stop at a light behind some cars to be in the right place.
The sign is in Portland, Oregon. [...]

Battery Mysteries

I dont think much about the battery in my laptop– til it craps out on me. I’ve known that the one on my 2006 MacBookPro might be getting creaky. During the last trip to Boston, it went form about a 30% reading immediately to 0 (and went black) a few times. I knew it [...]

Twitter Haz Cheezburger

I hear a strangle garbling noise as twitter eats yet another tweet.

the does not follow you. Send FOLLOW THE to request.
Oh, yes, that makes sense now.

Roll Your Own Flickr Notes

For a long time I have continually raved about what I think is a severely under-used Cool Flickr Feature- the ability to add notes, or hypertext regions to images. For many long, winter nights, I have wondered.. Why Dont Teachers Jump All Over Such a Thing?, but alas, gave up on hearing an answer from [...]

You Had Me at Dog

I could barely ignore an appearance of a new site called Inside a Dog, a new site from Victoria, Australia aimed at promoting youth reading and interesting in writing and those lovely old fashioned portable content devices called “books”.
But what a clever web theme (yes, I am biased)- that a program all the way in [...]

The Web 2.0 Laundry List is Us/ing Me

I am in the one month scramble the jets mode to get ready for my Australian tour where I hope to avoid any street protesters nor tangle up anyone’s traffic with my motorcade.
I had put some thought around how to do a Web 2.0 workshop that is not the typical ed-tech geek approach of spraying [...]

Belated (B)log Day

Is anywhere in the world is it August 31? I have come up for air a day later..

Let’s see if I can come up with my five unusual, unheralded blogs. First is this tiny one originating from Monkton… just kidding.

The Generator Blog collects all those sites that allow you to generate an image or something [...]

Gender Bending Bacn

Gender Bending in the Bacn posted 1 Sep ‘07, 10.50am MDT PST on flickr
Just got some fresh bacn in my inbox- seems like Quechup has some issues with gender