Posts from ‘January, 2008’

Oh flickr, how I adore thee! my love runneth over…
But after a lot of blog rants, its just so nice to say some nice things about nice people.
Nice!
I always get extra excited when my RSS feed for comments on my pix lights up in that “unread” color, so I checked out a link today, and [...]

Blog Danger Code Level Yellow posted 6 Jan ‘08, 10.31am MST PST on flickr
Word choice on CogDogBlog has earned me a code yellow, Elevated: Tom Cruise might ask me for spare change.
The Airbag Blog Advisory System was just quirky enough I had to take time and try.
In these dark times you can never [...]

Thanks to the precedent setting and helpful nudge of D’Arcy Norman (who did this last year), in 2008, I am pledging myself to take and post to flickr every day a photo that best captures what I as doing, or at least what I photographed that day.
As D’Arcy notes, it is not easy, but [...]

Forget the Social Graph, Here’s the Twitter Graph! posted 4 Jan ‘08, 11.15pm MST PST on flickr
Hardly a day passes now that there is not some other new web tool doing something interesting with data grabbed from twitter’s open APIs.
This just in is Twitter Stats, which helps you analyze your (or someone else’s) twitter [...]

I’m on a video spree tonight; playing around with the goofy squirrel movie got me thinking about another video I slapped together last May for a presentation I did at University of Mary Washington- this was the first go around for “Being There” which turned out in some ways to be “Alan’s Favorite Things and [...]

Yesterday I dutifully filled the bird feeders for all the numerous finches, jays, acorn wood peckers that I imagine are pretty hungry in the cold winter up on the Mogollon Rim, Arizona. As i was working today, out my window about 3 feet away, I watched this gray suited thug empty the feeder in about [...]

Good golly, 2008 is not even 24 hours in the bag, and I am blogging about spammers. You can certainly see something I did not put on my resolution list (which, in fact, is another one of those zero item lists).
Spotting spam sometimes takes some detection, but other times its a simple matter of:
* is [...]

A Llama Named Mike posted 1 Jan ‘08, 4.52pm MST PST on flickr
"Mike" was one of three llamas we hiked with from Strawberry Llama Ranch for a New Years Day trek into Fossil Creek Canyon. Mike was the alpha of the three, so he mostly had to march in front, and spent a lot [...]