Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
flickr foto Who Needs a Dropping Ball?available on my flickr Any little town can have a ball drop for New Year’s Eve… in Flagstaff, Arizona, a giant metal pine cone will fall to usher in 2006. Continuing 2006’s opening blogs in flickr onli… It’s New Year’s Eve. Dropping some ball in Time’s Square is so […]
flickr foto Found Numbersavailable on my flickr Here in a men’s room at the Flagstaff Brewery are those pesky bad luck numbers that someone Lost. Shall we play them in the lottery? So there I was, taking care of… mmmm. “business” in the men’s room at the Flagstaff Brewery, when these familiar numbers were there […]
flickr foto Office With a Viewavailable on my flickr This is where a spent most of the time during the holiday break in Strawberry Arizona. The cubicle next door has a hot tub. The odometer has rolled over 2006 and tomorrow marks the first day back at the office. Since I’m coming off a splendid […]
I’ve finally caught up with my other colleagues in getting into relaxed, holiday, not-at-the-office for a while mode. One of the nice side perks of working in education is getting their holiday schedule, so I am away from the building until January 3, hibernating up in our comfy cabin in Strawberry, in frequently sipping the […]
I’ve been wondering about an interesting orange icon I have seen on the right hand side of the URL display in Firefox, which seemed to always be there for WordPress sites. Thanks to Tom at TuttleSVC, I know it is now implemented in Mozilla and Microoft browsers to indicate a site has an RSS feed […]
I’ve been eyeballing an ever increasing amount of web-based platforms for bringing together content (or microcontent, or nanocontent) from multiple sources, the echo again of Small Technologies (Pieces) Loosely Joined (note- if the content there is replaces by a wiki spam link, just wait until the bot resets the mess. Brian- you may want to […]
With the end of the year coming soon (in academia; our system has been slowing to a halt as the semester ends, faculty leave, e-mail volume plummets, and parking spaces become abundant), I am trying to avoid end of the year wrap=up or next year prognostication. However, I do feel some urge to think a […]
If you are a serious to semi-serious Mac user and do not own a copy of Alsoft Diskwarrior, stop reading this, run, out and buy one. Shouldn’t you have: … the most highly decorated Mac disk repair utility ever. It repairs disks that no other program can repair… DiskWarrior is the safest, the most technologically […]
First, of all, the answer is “no”. The question is what Will at Work Learning poses in Are Wiki’s Inherently Flawed?. While it provides a provoacative blog post title, the question is aimed wrong, and not really even answered. The underlying belief about wikis is that “all of us are smarter than a few of […]
PT Barnum’s rule lives alive and well that the buggiest, most inexplicable, frustrating (tabless) Web browser in terns of its refusal to follow Web Standards has the most users. Again, I have found that my time in web design is spent: * 30% developing a solid design in a web-standard browser such as FireFox * […]
