I cannot give enough thanks for the Internet Archive WayBack Machine. I should give money, but instead I offer a blog post. And that’s a thing when I am looking to use or refer to an old post here- more often than not, many to most if not all the links are broken. Some days […]
“Who ya gonna call?” “CODEBUSTERS” No. But the metaphor of Ghostbusters crossing the streams was inversely appropriate to a little bit of code action over the holidays (of which the actual action was nil). But this was fun. This nice tweet from John Johnston (who spawned the idea) reminded me of a WordPress plugin I […]
Show me the exact line between habit and obsession. I might take a photo of it. Since 2008 I have attempted, though not 100% succeeded, at taking photographs every day, posting my favorite to flickr, as one of more than 1700 others in the Daily Photos group there https://www.flickr.com/groups/366photos/. The calendar change means setting up […]
I see your pie charts and lists of almost 100 books read this year, Martin Weller. And it is impressive. My summary will not take a spreadsheet, as I just today finished one book for 2019, this one bought maybe a year ago (big review below). The list is one book long (well there is […]
To every new browser tab opened, is a window to the past, thanks to the Free to Use Browser Extension from the Library of Congress. What it means is that every new tab opened in Chrome comes a public domain photo from the Library of Congress. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the same one […]
There’s something to be said for making your own tech tools; you certainly know quickly if something goes awry (though you cannot complain much about the tool provider). Something I made first almost 10 years ago is the flickr cc attribution helper. If you take on the task some think too arduous to give credit […]
As always, getting notice of a photo added to Flickr Explore is a wonderful surprise, as it is often unanticipated. It’s been a while (well not that long, since early August) that it happened. But I never expect a photo to land there, unlike many in the group discussions which sound like “Wahhhh Why Are […]
Yes, it’s that year end time of inevitable reflections, of dusting off the blog, vows to blog, etc. There’s not de-dusting or vow-making needed here, I can tell in one URL that this blog hoisted 120 posts in 2019 https://cogdogblog.com/2019/ (though admittedly down from 2018, 2017, 2016…). It’s been a far bit of SPLOT blogging […]
I’ve collected more than enough examples of Web Tools Biting the Dust but it stings more when the dust biting is by organization that believes that the internet “is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible to all.” Now in the queue for the next iteration of this video is Mozilla Goggles. […]
Get ready for some arcane bits about figuring out web addresses. It’s hardly commentary on anything pro quo, more just trying to explain my ways. This happened more than a few times with last times I taught a course where students set up those dandy free blogs on WordPress.com, Blogger, and even tumblr. And it’s […]
