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CogDog The Blog

An early 90s builder of web stuff and blogging Alan Levine barks at CogDogBlog.com on web storytelling (#ds106 #4life), photography, bending WordPress, and serendipity in the infinite internet river. He thinks it's weird to write about himself in the third person. And he is 100% into the Fediverse (or tells himself so) Tooting as @cogdog@cosocial.ca

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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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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 […]

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Feed2JSMess

Right now the server running Feed2JS is down and out. I have only the most limited, around the corner and snake up a pole access, but the server is toasted until someone on their IT staff can go in the server room and hard start the server. It’s just a humble XServe getting yanked and […]

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Yes, We’re Dressed When Working From Home

flickr foto Geek!available on flickr Yes, he’s on holiday. Yes, he’s in a garden. Yes, he’s checking his email. Yes, he wanted to "work from home" the following week. It never fails when someone asks me about working from home…. within seconds there is some snickering reference to, “working in your underwear….” So funny. Why […]