Creating a web browser icon for your blog or web site is hardly mission critical, but in case anyone out there is looking for the easy way to do this, especially the WordPress crowd, here is how I did it with minimal fuss. The typical method involves creating a facivon.ico image file and placing that […]
I am not trying to start a boycott, but am making my own pointless statement about my fatigue with the format and limited outcomes of attending the large educational technology conferences. I’ve barked and moaned previously (see “I’m Bored As Hell And I’m Not Gonna… zzzzz”) about the staleness and sad irony of the 50 […]
Dredged from combing the junk filter folder is evidence that shows some folks have been spamming since 1938, which would be long before Al Gore’s father handed down that Internet idea to his boy: Wow, that old spam sure smells bad! It’s a good thing Thunderbird can spot it from a mile high.
I’m getting prepped to do some upcoming audio interviews wia Skype or iChat A/V — I have a new iRiver mp3 recorder with a line in, and was fussing with hooking that up with a microphone to record me talking and external speakers for the interviewee… If I thought my previous iRiver had a confusing […]
Our center has a posted opening for an Instructional Designer position working with projects listed on the main MCLI web site. If this sparks any interest, be sure to apply directly to the Maricopa HR department. Any resumes or materials sent to me will be automatically trashed, and I cannot provide any more information than […]
flickr foto Round Peg, Not So Round Sweaty Holeavailable on my flickr The iPod ear buds work fine foir sitting on your butt on the couch, in class, on the bus, but for running in our desert heat, I am finding the fit just does not work. Yes, the ear buds are cheap. I am […]
flickr foto MessPodavailable on my flickr Every transfer of my iPod to and from my pocket or backpack results in this twisted spaghetti mess of ear bud cable. I guess I should just never remove it from my head? I’d like to have back number of cumulative hours spent untangling the ear bud cables on […]
Among the boatload of Chinese spam, enlargement/shrinkage offers, gambling teasers, celebrity nude photos that grace my daily email comes a genuine nice message today from Steve Dembo: Hey, I really enjoy reading your blog. Definitely in my top 5. However, every I want to find an article of yours or link back to your site, […]
Bear with me on a long introduction here, but later in this post I am asking for ideas and possible remote participation in an upcoming presentation. In an email exchange a few months back, Phil Long had asked me and Stephen Downes (I am the little leg on this stool) thoughts on a presentation on […]
He’s hip but he may not be available to entertain at your cousin’s wedding… see how Stephen Downes’ voice, Powerpoints, and a little backbeat are set up smoothly in a 6 minute video crafted by Zach Chandler at Colby College: http://studio.colby.edu/people/zach/reusable_media_lg.mov It could be a whole new art form of compressing presentations to their bare […]
