Buried Bones (Archive) for the 'Blog Pile' Category
- A Quick One While He is Not Away (
Friday, December 12th, 2008)
Just toying around with the new QuickPress feature on the WordPress 2.7 dashboard. Sweet! Am just getting used to all my links on the left. I love the new dashboard features, being able to move ‘em around, hide ‘em
Nice to see a few changes to the media uploader (looks like defaults match the way I [...] more »»
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- Among the Wizards (
Friday, December 12th, 2008)
Note- I wrote a bit of this while I was waiting for a highway to re-open…
It looks like I have offline time for some slow blogging. I am writing this from the front seat of my car, stuck in a highway closure on Arizona Highway 87, whose nickname is the “Beeline Highway”. The bees are [...] more »»
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- Watching TV Not on a TV (
Sunday, December 7th, 2008)
I’ve already waxed on the demise of the television I grew up with.
So long.
I just finished watching a funny episode of the Simpsons, but my TV is still off (actually it gets no reception); I watched Mypods and Boomsticks on Hulu which in true form, poked some fun at “Mapple”, it’s “MyPods” and CEO (using [...] more »»
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- Blunt Force Presentation Trauma (
Saturday, December 6th, 2008)
Ow, my head.
Modified from cc licensed flickr photo by bionerd
I’ve complained about the insanity of conference presentations for longer than I have blogged. To no end, I find myself continually in come sort of presentation induced coma again and again– and as often as not these too are online presentations. You can whack me over [...] more »»
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- Sawubona! Flickr Mobile (
Friday, December 5th, 2008)
New Flickr mobile by cogdogblog posted 5 Dec ‘08, 9.25am MST PST on flickr
Flickr has spiffed up their mobile page see m.Flickr.com including video playback!
The new flickr mobile url is worth adding to the iPhone desktop icons.
I was eager to see some of my videos, but missed the fine print that it only [...] more »»
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- Good / Bad ? Travel (
Friday, December 5th, 2008)
Good / Bad by cogdogblog posted 5 Dec ‘08, 12.11am MST PST on flickr
This has been a year of travel clocking close to 60k miles so far in 2008. I wanted to take this opportunity to hang some travel providers on appropriate hooks (I seem to be lacking a hook for “Ugly”) for [...] more »»
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- Web Design (
Thursday, November 27th, 2008)
Functional Simple Web Design by cogdogblog posted 27 Nov ‘08, 11.00pm MST PST on flickr
No frills, but in zero clicks, goingtorain.com/ gives you your local weather forecast (detects location via IP address).
Maybe it is the start of some new minimalistic zen of web design…
Linktribution to Mashable.com
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- Say Thanks (
Thursday, November 27th, 2008)
4:00 PM by cogdogblog posted 27 Nov ‘08, 9.08am MST PST on flickr
That means another glorious aristict sunset in Iceland.
On this day of giving thanks, I give mine for this world, and all that it unveils, from a simple un-assuming sky, to unexpected treasures you were not asking for, to perhaps a [...] more »»
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- Iceland to Reno Classroom via the Tubes (
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008)
I certainly have little interest in returning to school for more formal Edukashion, but if I did, I think I’d go back to 5th grade over grad school.
Following up on a recent connection to Chrissy H’s class in Bangkok, yesterday I had another opportunity to view an active elementary school classroom through my Skype window. [...] more »»
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- Visualizing Feed Word Clouds Over Time with FeedVis (
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008)
In my everyday technology browsing I see a fair number of interesting tools, sites, ideas, that come my way via RSS, twitter, etc. A lot of them I give a quick look, say “Hmm”, tag ‘em, and move on.
Besides almost every post of unbelievable wizardry and in depth explanation of Tony Hirst, not often [...] more »»
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