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In Which I Chase Medium.com Up a Tree
Cagey cat. Lazy cat, cannot even generate output to provide valid RSS feed. @medium your rss feeds are @ mess Technology like RSS dies not because of failure, but neglect. You get what you ignore.
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Looking Through My Own Time Tunnel
This is not just a presentation prop for my presentation nostalgia trips to the past, pleasantly seated at my hosts breakfast table in Auckland, I am drinking coffee in your future. I tracked on the flight over not just the crossing over the International Date Line, but the way it jags, we actually went over, […]
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WordPress Hidden OPML Gem
I often don’t know what I don’t know. Ben Harwood posed a question this morning @cogdog Looking for a way to export FWP list to another site. Not that I'm lazy, well.. but maybe there's a post that isn't on WP org site? — Ben (@BenjaminHarwood) September 24, 2014 Basically to export the sites you […]
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From the Wop Wops of Arizona to New Zealand
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I won’t get to see Milford Sound again on this next trip, but I will get a whirlwind swirl around the North Island of New Zealand. The journey into the future has me leaving home at 10am, driving to Phoenix, flying to San Francisco […]
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When You think That Tech Is More Awesome Than Possible, yet…
Flash! Poof! I thought I just discovered a hidden search gem in my OS X Mavericks system. One of the coolest things in Evernote is uploaded photos with text in the picture, becomes searchable for those words (it does some magic OCR on your images). Now that is magic. This morning I was seeking an […]
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Grasping for the Holy Comment Grail
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by RobotSkirts Blog comments. Once the only social network, the way we conversed among blogs, wikis in the pre-twitter, pre-facebook era. It was, really, where the interaction happened. Now, thanks to Google providing the link bait incentive, blog comments are the honey pots for bot gibberish; […]
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This is How My Health Insurance “Works”
Unlike many tea partiers I’ve been pleased with my experience getting ACA Healthcare (get the name right, willya, labeling it ObamaCare gives your bias away). I found the signup smooth, and have had above par service when I have called them with questions. As a self-employed Type 1 Diabetic, without it, I’d likely be (a) […]
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Farewell Cadu
creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I got the sad news today from my ex that Cadu has left this earth. This loyal black lab was the sister of Mickey, the brown lab who stands in for me on my various avatars and this web site banner. We got both […]
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Wondering about Wonder at UT Arlington
I will be first to say today’s invited talk at the UT Arlington LINK Research Lab was my own trip through the Time Tunnel, with the year 1989 dialed in. An archive of the talk is available — here are el slides A bit of a mashup of some earlier ones on Enquire Within and […]
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I am a Smart-Ass
Published tonight on medium.com – am still finding my way around the writing space. I find it makes me actually go over my words like 4 or 5 times rather than my typo-ridden blurt here. But anyhow, the real truth behind the origin of the Internet I am a Smart-Ass (the Internet was built for […]