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Buried Toys

Reclaiming Your Web

One Old Web Page, Four Dead Embeds

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 25, 2021January 25, 2021

Broken web stuff bothers me, especially when it’s my own stuff. Unlike when companies like Google et al break things, I can fix my own. I was scouring for a ten year old blog post (there was a purpos/ed but that matters not) and came across a hand rolled web page for a presentation I […]

OE Global

In the Rear View Mirror: OE Global Conference 2020

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 18, 2021January 18, 2021

When this blog was young and it’s author attended a conference, it hardly took any time to write a post about the experience. Heck, there were usually several done while on site. insert pithy image representing that was then this is now Rambling Pile of Blogcuses But still a month… er two months later, a […]

Coding, Experiments

Generating Generators (cows indirectly involved)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 11, 2021January 11, 2021

I love the idea of digital generators of stuff especially with a whiff of randomness and whimsy. Previously on this blog… This was a time when I recrafted a thing Martin Weller had found for a randomizing tech generator that spit out funny, but maybe idea prompting edtech metaphors. You can’t be more proud when […]

SPLOT, Wordpress

A Few Wire Twists and BAM! SPLOTBox Now Supports Vocaroo

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 11, 2021

This was done pretty much over breakfast and I bet I spend more time writing this blog post than it took to code a new addition to the media supported by the SPLOTbox WordPress theme. Blame/Credit DS106. I’m on a little self dare to try and do the DS106 Daily Create every day, done over […]

OE Global, Podcasting, Random Musing

Podcasting. Doing it Right. Doing it Wrong. As if Binaries Exist.

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 10, 2021February 9, 2021

It’s almost like it’s 2004. There’s an exciting new thing someone portmanteau-ed as “podcasting”. Not so new, of course. I’ve been part of one with Antonio Vantaggiato that defies the meaning of frequency (it’s more or less a reason to talk to mi amigo). I’ve also started a series for my work this year as […]

Coding, Cool Tool Fool, Experiments, Wordpress

Sharpening The Trailing Edge Technology of Google Custom Search Engine

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 7, 2021January 7, 2021

… in which I humbly pay respects to Jon Udell, as it reads in his Twitter bio, the “Patron saint of trailing-edge technologies.” And one of the endless reasons I respect Jon is his embodiment of being the antithesis to the Silicon Valley holy devotion to the cutting edge, is his devotion to the other […]

Coding, Storying

Just In Time Fix for Old Jalopy Web Site of Five Card Flickr Stories

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 6, 2021January 6, 2021

I knew the old car’s engine needed work, but I kept putting it off. Yes, there was advanced word that Reclaim Hosting would be making PHP 7.x the default for all sites, and that support for older versions of PHP would go away. I knew this was an issue for one of mine, the Five […]

Coding, Photography

From Countdown to Countup

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 5, 2021January 5, 2021

This comes from the “I Did Not Expect to Spend Time Code Fixing This Tiny Thing But is It Ever Rewarding When a Hunch Pans Out” department. I kind of blame/credit my good friend Roland Tanglao (subscribe to his blog, something I had lapsed on doing, bad dog!). I’ve known Roland since the early early […]

On Sharing, Photography

Public Domain as the Opener of Glorious Rabbit Holes

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 4, 2021April 14, 2025

January 1 was not only the day that relieved us of 2020, but also a celebration of works entering the Public Domain so works published in 1925 are finally available to all (celebrating that it takes 95 freaking Sonny Bono years to make this happen is bittersweet). I have a several times a day ceremony […]

Red Book Project

The Red Book Project

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 1, 2021November 4, 2022

I thought this was going to be a small digital cleanup project I could cross off my list over the holiday break. But like many tasks, when you pop open the hood (bonnet for those elsewhere), there ends up being more than you expected. There is a publication I wrote in (gasp) 1989 that I […]

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