Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
Did you know that airlines can take your money for tickets, and then keep it when their own delays cause you to miss connections? There is a word for that. Did you know they can ignore requests for customer service? Not reply to messages they acknowledge they will? Did you know that the Bush administration […]
Do you use the TwitterTools plugin on your own WordPress site to send your blog posts to your tweet stream? Wanna feel like a real WordPress hack jockey? Here is a little code editing you can do without needing to know diddly squat about PHP. Here’s the thing, when TwitterTools published your new sexy blog […]
cc licensed flickr photo by SiRi About the most reliable prediction one can make this end time of year is the flood of people posting their own predictions for 2009, lots of them in the technology space (e.g. ReadWriteWeb, EDITing in the Dark, and Stephen Downes takes out the 10 year scope in an amazing […]
JamStudio is a nifty online music mixer where you can compose and publish your own tunes. You put music keys on the score, select instruments, set tempo, etc: You can create multiple “pages” of music; I just played quickly to create two “originals” (hah, just quick futzing around): Cowboy Glitter [448k MP3] Rain on the […]
Fast Food (Roadrunner) by Nick Chill posted 11 Nov ’08, 4.11pm MST PST on flickr Here is another of the Greater Roadrunner, actually running across the road. He was very challenging to shoot. View On Black 20081108-088 As astutely commented by John Larkin another Twitteronema (Twitter+Phenomena) is how fast software and web site creators respond […]
I was excited to try Animoto‘s new app for the iPhone that allows you to create videos from iPhone photos and their music selection. So I loaded up 16 photos, arranged them, and selected my music. Then when I went to create the video, I keep getting told my phone is offline, despite the 5 […]
Road Dog by cogdogblog posted 23 Dec ’08, 9.39am MST PST on flickr Happy to be done traveling for 2008! Stuff organized by TripIt www.tripit.com/people/cogdog Woot! I shall not see the inside of another airport for a long while (well, til January 15). It was quite a thrill to place the blue dots as tracked […]
20/20 by cogdogblog posted 23 Dec ’08, 9.07am MST PST on flickr Make your own Custom Eye Chart www.eyechartmaker.com No cheating, cover the left eye and read the smallest line you can see clearly.
I will tap into a generational nerve (if you get no response, read someone else’s blog post) with a curiosity as to how, over time, the answer to that sacred answer was changed: Yes, I never liked the Owl’s cheap answer, and always thought the number of licks to get to the center of a […]
Is there anything to be optimistic about regarding the financial bombs? Is everyone expecting the sky to fall? Should I worry about my content hoisted in those once shiny new Web 2.0 sites suddenly evaporating. And damnit, will I be slashing more tools from my 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story? (It might […]
