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Spam in a GMail Ocean

Even with a slew of slaughtered email spam and just about every message I have gotten for several years, my use of GMail’s space hovers around 0%: Some of this is likely because they quietly just upped everyone’s quote to 6 Megabytes, a whole lotta space indeed. The again Google is out there harvesting all […]

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Flickr Drops the Hammer on Spammer

Yes another log on the fire for my adoration of flickr. One of my “dogs only” rss feed in my Reader is a watch on my comments in flickr (there is an RSS feed for yourself at http://www.flickr.com/recent_activity.gne?days=2). There is asome bit of ego involved, but mainly so I can reply to comments, yes that […]

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Morning Online With 8th Graders

Morning With 8th Graders posted 21 Dec ’07, 11.56am MST PST on flickr I got an invite yesterday to join in on a WorldBridges session with 8th grade students of Lee Baber (Western part of Virginia), Paul Allison (New York City), and Madeline ? (also new York) in completely chaotic, open discussion about "the future […]

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The Chronicle Time Warp

Ahhh, that electronic tome of academia, the The Chronicle of Higher Education, is sporting some of the Emperor’s clothing line. In an article published December 17, 2007 on Colleges Are Reluctant to Adopt New Publication Venues the keen writers there “discovered” the NMC 2007 Horizon Report: Academe has been slow to accept new forms of […]

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Pulling AdSense from a Plain Domain

This falls into the category of “curiosities raised from idle web wandering”. I just noticed after not looking at it for a while at how much stuff (or crud or crap) I have running down the sidebar of this blog. Its stuff I pretty much ignore, as likely do others. I do get some self […]

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Pack the Moose!

Moose Mugshot posted 30 May ’07, 4.18pm MDT PST on flickr We just spent a week camping up at Algonquin. It was wonderful, such a gorgeous wilderness and what wildlife! Woo hoo! I’m already planning to attend Northern Voice 2008 but now I am packing the good moose duds since my session on “50 Web […]

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I’ve Been Spocked

Spock Bag posted 14 Oct ’05, 1.30pm MDT PST on flickr I embroidered this Spock bag for Mason the other day. I am trying to determine of the recent small trickle of emails notifying me that “XXXXX has requested your trust on Spock” is of merit or just another blotch of Quechup. So before I […]

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I got… err… try-ed an iPhone

Just came across TryPhone a site that offers web based interactive interfaces for a wide range of mobile phones. Seems a great way to see the features. And in the spirit of good embed-ness, you can put any of this in a web page. So before I do this, my own backl story. I have […]