cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I arrived in Doha, Qatar, after the 4+ hour trans USA flight, and then another long 13 hour hop on Qatar Airways- which I have to say for even in coach class, had amazing service on the giant 747- everything from hot towels to cold beer to meals […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Darren Larson I’m feeling many parallels between my current training to run a half marathon and trying to crank out 50,000 words for NaNoWriMo. Obviously a regimen is needed, the goals are both things I question (or have questioned) whether I can do, falling behind the schedule– puts you […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Darko Pevec While I acknowledge the value (and usually am responsible for) being able to publish archived recordings of webinars, I must admit the grand total of recorded webinars that I have gone back to watch is… (drum roll, counters flipping) Zero. Partly its laziness, but I never seem […]
Follow me through this path of incongruities. We live in this hyper-connected modern age, where larger than every managed before information is retrievable, sharable, around the world. All that Did You Know stuff. Standing at the precipice of the Web of Data possibly soon accessible via one of those hand flying Minority Report interfaces. Perhaps. […]
Nothing is more sweeter than the serendipity of finding something online that grabs a breath from you, and such that you drop what you are doing to dig deeper. This has only happened to me, oh, estimating (counting on fingers…) maybe 18672 times. One more. A day or so ago, on scanning the flow of […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by MikeOliveri I spew a lot of words (and typos) through this blog, but I’ve always harbored idyllic dreams of writing something…. more. But the epic idea has failed to materialize, so I am taking another interesting route by signing up for National Writing Novel Month or as most of […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Xuilla It’s like pissing in an ocean of piss I’m probably over-saturating, but until I can figure out something useful to do in Google Wave, its more fun to piss on all the silliness I see about it. I peek in every few days, and mostly I see Google […]
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It’s been a week since returning from Barcelona, where I was like 5 Yahtzees in a row luck enough to be a part of the Open EdTech 2009 summit co-organized by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and the New Media Consortium (NMC). I remember hearing the raves of the 2008 meeting from my colleagues that got to go.
This was actually my first trip to Europe since attending a Geology conference in Germany back in 1990. It seems patently obvious, but was slightly eye widening in a place where (a) there is visible history going back 3 or 4 times the history of the US and (b) the driving distance proximity of different speaking and culturally’historically countries makes for a different feel than we get in what can seem like ironically isolated vastness of our large country, where it takes a multiple day trip to get to a different culture.
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Even for a small example is this city’s monument sized honor of Christopher Columbus, being the place where he gave his “report card” to Isabella and Ferdinand after his first foray into America, while over here, he is either painted as cartoon schoolbook hero or a villainous fraud.
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Looking outside a window of the ruins of Scorpion Gulch, a home in south Phoenix built in the 1930s of local rock. southmountainhistory.blogspot.com/2009/05/scorpion-gulch-… Okay I admit the colors have been super scooched with Vibrancy and Saturation for a false color effect on the Palo Verde tree Words are […]
On a daily basis, life presents me metaphors. cc licensed flickr photo shared by Frosted Peppercorn When I stepped in the shower this morning, I notice a medium sized, non threatening black spider in the bath tub. My first, and normal reaction is to quickly grab a tissue, so I can squash the bugger, toss […]
