This is a miniscule point, but the things I like about the features rolled out by sites like Google, flickr, etc, is that sometimes they just slip something in like a surprise… the biddy post I made about the Google Home page adding tabbed navigation caught my eye, only because I whizzed by the page […]
I’ve had the personalized Google home page set on all my browsers for a while, but just recently noticed that you can now add tabs to organize and spread out the different tools and feeds you can use. So I gleaned a few off the front view, leaving my flickr wallet,Gmail inbox, delicious tagged sites, […]
This has been quite a few days… I’ve been in Newark, NJ, for a meeting related to NMC’s project on MacArthur Foundation Series Digital Media (no link, a rather long, un-bloggable story there), but it has been a momentous gathering of top names in the many fields. There are 90 some expert authors and editors […]
I amidst a mostly blogless stretch, chalked up to a hellacious travel schedule recently without even much time to think and breath, much less write. Just got back home Friday night, technically Saturday at 2:00 AM on the last leg of a cross country circle. The last end was four days in Austin for another […]
I’m doing a keynote session for the Basic/Advanced Training track for the K12 Online Conference in October — themed “Unleashing the Potential” (Darren had great words of flattery, plus its a great gang to team up with). The ideas are still brewing, but I was keen to rather than talk generally about the nuts and […]
Sorry Atlanta, you are a fine city, but I can hardly refrain from recommending to anyone to avoid airplane connections at your airport. My 1:45 flight from Baltimore here landed an hour late, and despite Delta’s announcements that “connecting flights had been notified”, they did not relay this to my Austin connection, which left without […]
flickr foto Grnad Openingavailable on flickr Typos as art! This welcome sign at the Tang Museum is Nina Katchadourian‘s work inspired by a sign at her local deli. I gotta get a job as an artist. I’m on the first leg of a large circle trip around the US, currently in Saratoga Springs, NY, for […]
flickr foto Return of MacBookProavailable on flickr My MacBookPro returned from its vacation to Houston, where it got some new screen parts and a battery replacement. So far so good, it works My MacBookPro is back and it works (well so far, a few hours). This MBP better stay lit, as in another day, I […]
flickr foto I Like This Scheduleavailable on flickr For this 12 day vacation, I’ve not needed to check the Palm Pilot much– I like its monotony. I’ve been working on some new recipes….
flickr foto Gisela Storeavailable on flickr Small out of the way town south of Payson. This was the General Store and bar, closed for 3 years. I was poking around the net looking for anything about Gisela, Arizona, a town of minimal map dot size. For as many years I have driven north on the […]
