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368 Posts from 2006
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Sprinkle Some Ajax into Feed2JS?
While mulling over how to move Feed2JS to a more stable, friendly, supported home, especially sparked by the comments by David, I am thinking a whole new framework is in order. Don;t worry, I will leave the legacy… er, curent code as is. My own prime directive is not to break anyone’s previously constructed pasted […]
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Not So Virtual Liftoff
flickr foto Rocket’s Readyavailable on flickr Today was NASA’s third time this week hoping on good weather for the liftoff of the Space Shuttle. How cool it went smoothly on July 4! I was among 70 avatars watching the coverage live from the International Space Flight Museum in Second Life (they capped the attendance at […]
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blufr = addictive
Via David Weinberger’s blog, came a reference to a time eating web site. Blufr (“bruising your ego one blff at a time”) is more or less a true or false game at various “facts” form Answers.com– the addictive hook is tat each “way” / “no way” right answer bumps you points, you can post links […]
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When There’s No About in the About
From the dark ages of building web resource collections, I have always stressed the importance of having 1-2 sentences to describe what a web site is about– other wise, what you end with is a linkatorium, a laundry list of URLs or site titles and no context. And this is that is key for me, […]
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Hold the Truck! Mouse Pleads for Mercy
How is that for Apple listening? A day after I threaten to drive my GMC truck over a blue toothless mouse, the Mac OS 10.4.7 update contains an update to improve bluetooth communication with mouse devices! So far so good, as the mouse has been able to have activated 100% of the time (about 7 […]
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Gliffy is Jiffy
Web apps… exploding… Writely as a web word processor. Lazybase is a database… Editgrid is a spreadsheet. That is only the beginning… But now something mind blowing, mood altering, and just plan knock your socks off, how the **** do they do that in a browser? Bt sheer almost random clicking in my aggregator, I […]
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Calendar Data PITA and Banging On WordPress
Remember the “S” in RSS standing for Simple? I’ve gone through several gyrations [1] [2] [3] in trying to leverage RSS-ified calendar data to push content to a blog. Calendar information is just not as neatly boxed like Title, Link, & Description. What I wanted is a web-based calendar tool (lots of them), that I […]
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Intersection of RL & SL: Posters on NMC Campus
flickr foto Poster Presenteravailable on flickr Come meet me on July 12, 2006 to talk about our large format printing project at Hamilton College Like the conference session converged with a Second Life presence we ran at the NMC 2006 Conference in Cleveland, we are again playing with that intersection of real and virtual. We […]
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Feed2JSFuture
Following up yesterday’s mess, just getting rafts of emails from people (rightfully) worried Feed2JS makes me heave large sighs. This was a nice little project, that started as something to fill my own needs, that I lofted out on the net… and all of a sudden people around the world are riding on it, small […]