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cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’m in deep infatuated camera love with my nifty fifty f1/4 50mm lens- its what I use on my camera 90% of the time. Why? Why not- I get my sharpest photos and it lets me do amazing things in low light. It just works. And we do well with what works, what is comfortable, like the best pair of worn jeans, cowboy boots, or easy chair. Ye, there is something to be said by forcing yourself out of that zone. I read a photography guide somewhere that said once in a while, pick a lens you do not normally use and see what you can do with that exclusively I had that happen by my sheer clumsiness on a trip this summer when I dropped and broke the 50mm in Flagstaff, so I shot a whole day at the [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by United States Marine Corps Official Page It’s simple. Do something every day, and you get better at it. Easier said than done? Well, let’s look at what’s happening at the ds106 DailyCreate and maybe it will take the pressure off. Jim has already written up how it has progressed so far; this is something we talked about last year before the launch of ds106 as a way of being, of doing small amounts of creativity every day as being something helpful for the creative juices. It is based on Jim’s experiences in previous rounds of ds106 with the now defunct dailyshoot site, aimed at providing small doable challenges in photography. I myself did this more than a year, along side my ongoing daily photography posting. The DailyShoot provided a subtle but important prompt for creativity. When you are doing your [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of days on the road: 133 Miles Driven: 12,605 Most Recent 1000 mile marker: 12,000 miles, south of Atlanta, GA on October 30 Number of States/Provinces driven in: 24 Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: 4 Money spent on gas: $3437 Cheapest gas price: $3.08/gallon (Fountain Inn, SC). Highest gas price: $5.64/gallon (CA$1.39/liter) (Wawa, ON). Photos posted: 2639 (that is an average of 19.8 per day) Most scenic foliage drive: Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina. Second was highway 58 in southwest Virginia Best alternative to Interstate- US 19, the Georgia-Florida Parkway. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of books read: 12 (Most recent: Things the Grandchildren Should Know) Number of iPhones dropped into canyons: 1 Amount if love I have for me Android Phone: 0.0cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number [...]

I have an idea how some rag tag blog army can storm the castle of the Walled Garden Content Horders and do some damage. Maybe. It is likely a dumb idea that someone will poke the Hummer sized holes in. This just flickered n when I read Clarence Fisher’s Twitter gripe: What he is saying is that he is checking the referred log to his (emphasis added) wide open shared blog and finding inbound links from locked up course management systems. Maybe he is just curious how people inside the walls are using his stuff. Maybe he wants to know if they have ideas that he might benefit from… after freely giving up his content; they just horde it inside the castle pantries, and at the end of the semester, dump it in the moat. So here is my quarter-thought out idea… Let’s say a lot of bloggers, content publishers [...]

Caveat Emptor- this blog post has nothing to do with technology, learning, spam, WordPress, twitter, or the other junk that makes up the focus here. Its just about what I did with a tree. I could make a stretch and leap to something about learning objects, re-usable content… but that can be an exercise left for the reader. Now that I am living in Strawberry Arizona, a small town in the middle of a National Forest, at 6000 feet elevation, a number of environment differences are obvious. First, form where I lived before in Scottsdale, the city has a progressive recycling program- paper, cans, bottles, plastic go in a big giant can, it disappears, and we assume it is all recycled. That story is another blog post. But in a small town, recycling, transporting, etc is likely cost prohibitive. There is a collection for aluminum can at the fire station, [...]

Since not long after the day in October 1993 when a colleague handed my a floppy disk (remember those?) labeled “Mosaic”, our office has had a continuously running web server. We have gone through several iterations of trying to build collections of web resources for educators, and in going through some old files, I got a bit nostalgic. Just a bit. Our latest iteration might be construed as “Web 2.0″, but let’s roll back the decimals… Web 0.9: Old School Hand Spun HTML (1994-1995): World Wide Web News was a the old simple HTML with a few graphics that we published on our site and then advertised by email. The issue above dated September 14, 1994 covers web browsers, our web server running on a Mac SE/30, and some web links to Frog dissection, AskEric Virtual Librarian, The Pompeii Forum Project, etc (links are most likely long gone). In later [...]

More irrelevant updates on the home landscaping projects… when we bought our house in 1997, landscaping was a process of adding plants (as there was almost nothing growing here except for a few trees)… 8 years later we are in the process of taking out as much of the desert plants we put in… have gotten out of control. Single prickly pear pads stuck in the ground spread in a complex more than 4 feet wide and 3 feet high… other cactus of unknown identification spreads itself laterally where ever its sections fall and hit the ground. Small cute flowering cassia mushroom to debris shedding monsters. Anyhow, Saturday was clearing out a bunch of this as well as cutting down 3 palm trees 4-12 feet high, pulling out overgrown shrubs, a sort of landscape feng shui. Cutting the palm trees is interesting- a new chain on the chain saw slices [...]

< ?php include '/Volumes/web/html/alan/inc/better_mt.php'?> Getting back to our series on better blogging, on this one I make the bold contention (ducking tomatoes) that all (well most) weblog software packages create archives the wrong way. It is not that they cannot do it better, but for the most part, the out of the blox templates build archives the lazy way– just tossing old blog entries into one large, never ending scrolling sack. What am I blabbing about? Just about every blog software I have seen has nicely built systems for creating archives by date of previous writings. They organize them into links by month, day, etc. Some, like MovableType, allow user defined categories, so old entries can be grouped by any hierarchy. But what happens, and what is wrong (in this dog’s opinion) is that the definition of an “archive” is just one long entry appended after another. If you write [...]

If I had any doubt that my geek IQ was not so high… I think I have proved it in the last few days trying to get our new XServe into business with MovableType. Let’s say that getting it running under Panther OSX Server is a delicate operation for those not familiar with planet unix. The Apple OS apparently lacks a critical perl module that MT desperately needs. The order in which you do things is critical. It helps not to step on a crack or walk under ladders. I was able to patch together a strategy with some help from ibry daily and links there to Kirk Samuelson. The ibry log touches on a suggestion that is better explained at OSX hints regarding the DBD module and a required edit to a Config.pm file buried deep in the bowels of perl. To get back to action, I resorted to [...]