3229 Posts Categorized "Blog Pile"

Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.

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HTML in My Yard

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog It was not until I was done with placing these last stepping stones for my walkway, that I noticed that my playfulness with the angled rocks created an HTML tag. My yard now has italic text and will ruin the layout of the rest of the neighborhood since […]

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Be a Curator with Flickr Galleries

cc licensed flickr photo shared by WadeB Flickr was quietly introduced a new feature that will be interesting to use- Galleries. Think of it as a way to build collections of photos from other flickr users. It was always hard to do this before; the ost viable route was tagging photos, most people do not […]

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Web Site Stratigraphy

originally published over at NMC…. Me playing web paleontologist! As an appendix to the history of the NMC, I've been researching the evolution of its web site. With the aid of the invaluable Internet Archive Wayback Machine I've been able to identify, like in Geology, the major stratigraphic layers that marks this history. Join me […]

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Let’s Put an End to Stupid Forms

cc licensed flickr photo shared by voss You would think in an advanced electronic era that has brought us tools to broadcast our breakfast dilemmas and make our rock and roll dreams come alive that we might perhaps… maybe… improve the collection of information via @$#%#ing paper forms. There is no excuse for wasting my […]

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Missing Pie Pieces

cc licensed flickr photo modified by one shared by alexik Don’t belittle me for not knowing how the great Google Machine works, but I am feeling like someone took my piece of pie. For more than a year, at NMC we’ve been running Google Apps Enterprise Edition for Education. I am more than happy not […]

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Falsebook

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog You can always count on someone sooner or later warning about the dangers of what you put online since "one day someone will google your past". I’ve already blogged about this fear, and how ridiculous the concept is if you spin it around to the suggestion– it thus […]

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The CogDog Abides

cc licensed flickr photo shared by mnlamberson Thanks to the Jimbo Groom for pointing me to this priceless photo at the Open Education Conference last month in Vancouver (and thank Michelle for grabbing a great moment). it’s a fake prayer, the Reverend knows, and Gardner just want us to read a poem 😉

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Dead Trees

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I wandered down today to the Pine (AZ) Labor Day Festival- one of my favorite things at these summer fairs are the library’s used book sale. I wandered all the tables, and hit the jackpot on the last table, with Neil Gaimian’s Neverwhere and William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. […]