flickr foto Workshop in Dallasavailable on flickr Materials, binders and laptops, for our 3 day workshop for the NMC Marcus project. Storymining is the slick name of the 3-day workshop we (NMC) are doing in Dallas. This is part of our Marcus Project which is helping 24 art museums across the nation of Texas to […]
I want a job writing tabloid headlines. New from the Pew/Internet gang, comes Bloggers: A portrait of the internet’s new storytellers: The ease and appeal of blogging is inspiring a new group of writers and creators to share their voices with the world. A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on […]
I still cock my head sideways, stare at Technorati, and wonder, just what the bleep does it do? Watching this blog’s ego feed, weeks went by and none of the “new” lights came up in my RSS reader. Then, some start dribbling in, but a few links are ones I had seen weeks ago, and […]
flickr foto 2 p.m. monday commuteavailable on flickr downtown dallas straight ahead, obscured by fog. Ugh. Arrive in Dallas a few hours ago, and its about 106 and 90 percent humidity. I… can….. barely….. breathe….. I…. am….. swimming…. in sweat. And what a nice chatty cab drivery I had. I was almost at the hotel […]
I had a bad feeling about the loud clickity fan noises coming from my MacBookPro. With the heat this laptops put out, loosing its cooling mechanism would be big bad karma for my work machine. Since the laptop was still under warranty, I trundled off to the Apple Store in Phoenix, knowing it would likely […]
I’m just getting my feet wet with customizing MediaWiki for several NMC projects- sure it is easy to set up and install out of the box, dump the flower logo for your own, but there is sure a lot of stuff under the hood. There are a lot of flexible editing codes if you can […]
Yesterday was just one of those reverse Midas touch days where every piece of technology I touched, so matter how trivial, seemed to up in flames. It would have been advisable to close the laptop, grab a book, and go outside to sit under a tree… but it was 115 degrees in the shade yesterday, […]
The feed cat is coming out of the bag. A few weeks ago I bought a domain, and with some hosting donated by Aaron at Modevia Web Services, the Feed2JS service that lives now at http://feed2js.org/ has its own home at http://feed2js.org/. All I’ve done is more or less move the current site in whole, […]
It just goes to show that on the net, someone is always finding things out for you. Doug H was kind enough to let me know that he spotted on the Chronicle an announcement for the Instructional Technologist position at Maricopa I vacated in April. They must have scooped it from the local newspaper ad, […]
flickr foto Rain, Finallyavailable on flickr I hear in other parts of the world they have this word for when "water falls from the sky"…. Here in the Arizona desert, the first rare bits of summer rain are quite magical, and well worth stopping doing whatever you think is important, and go outside and just […]
