In a word, the ride was rough. Red Dog, my trusty and well used 1998 Ford F-150 had lately been getting harder and harder start, it took more effort to turn over. I feared the end of the line. I managed to get her to Andy’s Transmission in Moose Jaw, a trusty mechanic who previously […]
I’m thrilled to see that Reclaim Hosting still runs the DS106 Radio Summer Camp as a light, low threshold way to gather online about as far from a wall of zoom faces as you can get. It was 12 hours of programming you could just spin the dial to over to https://listen.reclaimed.tech/summer-camp and tune in. […]
Sniff. Sniff. Cautiously peeking out of the CogDogBlog that seems to be back in working operation after a broken period. The on switch is on, as if anyone noticed. It was an extended period of seeing the trusty old blog respond with “Error Establishing Database Connection.” I started to write out all the steps I […]
You might not be able to read this. Apparantly ye old CogDogBlog has been crashing much this past week with Error Establishing Database Connection errors. Oh no, Mr Bill! One or two folks notified me (thanks Brian B and JR), but it hardly seems to have created havoc on the internet. I was on a […]
Way out here on the marginal reaches of the withering web, the connections that weave together are of statistical aberration, where no language model of any size would draw a path. As thus it was following the adventures of Stephen Downes as he bicycles around Iceland that got me thinking of places I saw there […]
As often, what begins as a simple question or small need spins out a series of digging, experimenting, and ultimately spending more time remixing a featured image (by hand) and writing a blog post that 4 people may read. Ahhh, 2026. That’s another grumbly post. But here it is, I was rather taken by this […]
My wandering down into Web Rabbit Holes of interest happend much more frequently than the rate of blog posts. It’s where I find the most sanity in the pile of poop much (but not all) of the web is piled with. It started with a Mastodon post by Bonni Stachowiak referencing her own post on […]
Amongst the many blog post drafts still bouncing around upstairs is one about being the last person ever to vibe code anything but of more interest is writing about what is my major project at the moment over at Open Education Global, the Open Education Awards for Excellence. Aince I end up doing what one […]
Indeed the golden dreamy soft gel focused ideal of the leisurely retirement lifestyle, you know, out there shopping for vinyl or sitting at cafes writing novels (hee hee, that pingback is for you, Martin). Nope not me, I am still at full time work at Open Education Global and the real work of blogging here […]
I always did this as a kid on the beaches of Ocean City, Maryland. I would use my shovels and plastic containers to build some kind of sand castle with big walls and a deep moat. I would place them just out of reach of the water in low tide, and the game was to […]
