Posts from ‘December, 2009’

I’m slow to change some things…. I have had the same self modded theme on CogDogBlog since November 2005 (see the last face lift), so 4+ years later, I felt it was time to toy with some new digs.
But I am impulsive (I can speed shop with the best of them), so I looked at [...]

I regret I don’t know Russian since I cannot read about 60% of my blog comments, but among the rest, I get so many nice things that people say! It really warms my heart that people can be so kind, they even say things that are not relevant to my blog posts.
Your website came [...]

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That title may not stick for this post, it may connote something of a religious message.
Which it is not.
I rarely do blog posts by request, but with the right reason and carrot, I may respond (see below). For the benefit of Donors Choose, a project I love supporting (see [...]

Via the vast richness of the Stoyrtelling twitter stream, I picked up today a link to FlickrPoet a rather neat built on flickr tool. FlickrPoet allows you to enter a block of text, be it a poet or your last evaluation report, and it builds a visual representation of the words with photos from flickr.
Try [...]

I’ve had fun following D’Arcy Norman’s tweets as he experiments with an old Pentax film camera he got from his Dad. It got me thinking that I’ve had a string of cameras, but have never bothered to document my camera history.
Not that anyone would care,, this is a blog post for me as an [...]

What a strange honor- Tom Woodward twitter shared that this humble blog has been filtered in his school district

So take that, all those people who told/tell me to “grow up”… I am an adult now! I have this certificate to prove it.
cogdogblog.com is characterized as adult
And the way my brain works with connections, I could [...]

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There are some grand mysteries that are still un-resolved, Mr Owl…
Over at the neatly named The Clever Sheep blog I came across Rodd Lucier’s eager idea YELP! to try and score a landing as a Twitter trending topic:
Maybe it’s just the hundreds of teacher-learners I follow on Twitter, but [...]

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I’ve been cruising through a techno funk, a semi-periodic time when I am just finding the motivation gas tank leaning towards “E” and have refrained from blogging about not blogging. And I am not doing that here. After the trip to Doha, I have a half baked, half [...]

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Taking a page from Google, there is new announcement from the automobile industry:
BillyBob and Melba Bootwaddle, the original creators of the reverse flow corn cob floating ball carburetor, will take the stage to unveil their latest project, Ford Wave. As BillyBob describes it, “Knowing what we do about [...]

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I’m kind of glad they retired the Verizon guy or maybe because I don’t watch TV I don’t see him anymore. One Onion scented site suggests he got a brain tumor that had nothing to do with the phone while others report there are very strict rules as [...]