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Got Tape Block Style?

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 26, 2022February 26, 2022

I am late on the train of exploring WordPress block development; this post at WordPress Tavern looked like a simple way to at least get the paws wet. This little tinkering has not a whole lot of deep or even mild relevance, but the code fingers have been idle lately. And it was so easy […]

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True Stories of Openness for #OER22 (Reruns or a New Season?)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 23, 2022February 23, 2022

Try this one. A friend, colleague contacts you and says, “Do you remember that ______ I shared at _______? The most amazing thing happened…” You do want to know what comes next, right? That’s the the opening “hook” of excitement, intrigue, a hint of a journey that makes up the best of stories. And experiencing […]

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Google Does Some Evil and Franchises Blame to Individual Web Sites

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 13, 2022February 13, 2022

Do Google ever really commit to “Do No Evil”? They might not be buddies with Lucifer, but some news about something as banal as fonts is chilling. To me. I await someone with more expertise to shed some light, but this is how I read a recent snipped of chilling tech news. In late January, […]

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Hey, What’s That Sound [Around]? Heard it on the #DLINQDigDetox

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 5, 2022February 5, 2022

Oops. This post was not on the drafts I store in the back corners of my brain. And only after typing a first title (because all my posts need titles first) (well after I search for the photo) of “Sound Around” did my neurons flip on the 60’s vintage Buffalo Springfield track. Plus adding the […]

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The WordPress Hyperlink Pour Over Trick

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 1, 2022February 1, 2022

Yes, an old Cogdog can learn a new WordPress Trick. I’ve long gotten over the move to the Block Editor. I almost chuckle like seeing an 8-track player in a thrift store when I see Ye Olde Classic Editor (e.g. in Pressbooks). But there are things I continually fumble over. It seems very frequent when […]

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15 Twittering Years

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 31, 2022February 1, 2022

Usually it’s the kind of notification from the twitter app I dismiss without notice. But given it was the same day I dissed their other big offer I did give some pause of twitter telling me it was 15 years ago today I signed up for their silly service. No I am not going to […]

Random Musing

Annotating… Uphill Both Ways… into the Wind

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 31, 2022January 31, 2022

The British flavor of English provides the ideal descriptive term for what this and most of my blogging covers (and expect it to show up as a category or tag). And it fits for writing here about my Annotation Blues. Without Grandpa Internet pulling out a memory of annotating web pages in the Mosaic browser […]

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To Umm or Not To Umm, That is the Audio Editing Question

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 29, 2022January 29, 2022

I’m back in the podcast editing saddle with two sessions parked in Audacity for the OEG Voices show and hoping I can pin Antonio Vantaggiato down (or get my own schedule in order) for an overdue Puerto Rico Connection episode. But there is ummmm, something that I have ummmm, being pondering. To me, a universal […]

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Right? or Choice? To Repair (or Joy Thereof) #DLINQDigDetox

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 18, 2022January 18, 2022

If anything teaches you about being able to do repairs, it’s going for long distance bicycle rides or using one for commuting. You end up refining a set of small but flexible tools that you can carry, and sometime, far from anything, you find yourself improvising. Or there was a time I was camping alone […]

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Looking for the House on Barrington Road

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 18, 2022January 18, 2022

The internet doth giveth, but sometimes you need to turn over some rocks. And get lucky. Today I saw the house my grandparents lived in around 1940… with some help from Google Streetview. I’d mentioned in yesterday’s winded post on amazing stories about how a blog post about a friend of my grandmother whose paintings […]

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