Human inertia: An person at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force. An person in motion continues in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Of course, you usually never see those unbalanced forces in advance. Or, you yourself is […]
It started as just some tweets, making fun of buzz words with Laura Gibbs and Bill Fitzgerald @cogdog @funnymonkey I'm nervous around words that don't rhyme with other words. like monetize. 🙂 — Laura Gibbs (@OnlineCrsLady) June 9, 2015 https://twitter.com/funnymonkey/status/608316228520837122 This the day before I left for DML 2015, and an idea to do something […]
At the 2015 DML Conference I got, for the second time (first was in April at et4online), to join in a Conference Buddy Google Hangout session with Maha Bali. I almost hesitate to have to say who Maha is, for while being on the opposite side of the globe in Egypt, she is so part […]
As I said in the opening, the idea for this session proposed for the DML Conference was totally my idea, so if it flopped, I am happy to take the blame and if it went well, I give credit to the co-presenters. Fortunately it was the latter, Laura Gibbs, Ben Werdmüller, Erin Richey, Jonathan Worth, […]
I’m finding an interesting hyperlinking experience without any hyperlinks, from all things, a printed book. The idea of linking ideas is not limited by stuff you can wrap in an <a href="….">…</a> tag. The book I am just starting is Jill Lepore’s The Secret History of Wonder Woman. I was somewhat clued to the book […]
Well, you might only be able to go back to 2007. And Google Streetview often does not provide too many exit doors. But this seemed like a cool discovery, simply at random. Last weekend I was driving north from home on highway 87, and coming down the hill from the top of the Rim was […]
I’ve been using WordPress since 2005, hacking themes since 2008, and doing a whole lot more since then.. yet I have never written a plugin. All of my custom code has been done in theme templates and functions.php files Well, now I have done so, without spilling much blood. This is also the first time […]
File this one in the Unexpected Wonderful Internet Things That Started With an Almost Random Click department. I do like to know when someone comments on my flickr photos. In a previous version of the mobile app, what it showed for notifications matched the settings you make on the web for your flickr activity. You […]
Dumb idea. Why did this little worm crawl in my head today? New silly idea brewing for a cover song that mocks moocs… — Alan Levine (@cogdog) June 1, 2015 Someone was tweeting about the end of an open course. I have this thing about talking about the finality of something. Some things should end. […]
This is just making sure there’s a post in the category in the feed that connects to the Teaching with WordPress thing going on at UBC, being led by good colleagues and friends there. I’ve been using WordPress since April 2005, when it was version. Why do I know that? Because I have a blog […]
