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Watch Out for those Sneaky Cats
moar funny pictures
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GigaPanning By the Bay
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I took a pit stop on the way to Monterey for NMC2009 to grab some GigaPan scenes near Fisherman’s Wharf. What a lovely clear sunny day it was. First was a shot from the beach catching a lot of the crazy cold water swimmers: Yes, I got myself […]
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Meet The New Boss
cc licensed flickr photo shared by The Pug Father LMS. CMS. LCMS. La La La La La. Will they be toppled by a Wave? I feel rather blessed I have not had much responsibility or even been inside a Course Management System for a looooooong time. I aonnot say I find them inherently evil, but […]
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All I Know About Wave
It can be pretty: cc licensed flickr photo shared by prgibbs Our flags do it in the breeze cc licensed flickr photo shared by ladybugbkt It can be exciting! cc licensed flickr photo shared by (nz)dave It is a sign of old fashioned social networking cc licensed flickr photo shared by striatic It defines how […]
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Twitter Archaeology
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog My First Tweet is supposed to find your first chirped status, but it apparently fails if you have gone past the 3000 mark. There used to be a way to manually page back through your twitter archive by munging the page=XX value of the old URLs… but they […]
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iSolar
It was a while ago I blogged something about Doing Something Solar… I’ve not done a *whole* lot since then, but am planning on some research over the (sunny) summer on what it might take to rig some solar panels into my home grid. The folks at Connect2Earth were nice enough for doing something nice […]
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Lies, Damn Lies, and MSN Search Statistics
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog From Microsoft’s Audience Intelligence adCenter Labs comes this tool for Demographics Prediction which claims it "predicts a user’s age, gender, and other demographic information, based on their online behavior, such as what queries they search online and what web sites they visit"– based on MSN search which is… […]
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Live/Die By Those Short URLs
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Andrew Mason Ouch, indeed. Once upon a pre-twitter time there was but a few services that offered easy ways to turn long ugly URLs into shorter ones. I might be hard pressed to find someone that has not clicked a TinyURL and I remember at least 5 years ago […]
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A Modest Twitter Idea for Hashtags
cc licensed flickr photo shared by ciaranj75 Sometimes it is more obvious what a twitter hashtag means (if the term is new- see the Ultimate Guide to Twitter Hashtags). Regular CDB readers (hi Mom!) might recall I’ve snarked a bit on twitter hashtags which truly was meant in jest. As is everything I right here, […]
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Spring Feed Cleaning
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Every few months, I get the urge to wipe out the backlog on unread RSS feed items. It is just a few Shift-A’s to get a nice clean slate (it hardly takes anytime to do the edublogger feeds since no one blogs anymore 😉 Go ahead, I dare […]