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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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Kicking a Domain to the Curb

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 1, 2021January 1, 2021

I started my habit in 2005. Yes, I have accumulated more than a few domains (details in my domain interview). I can stop at anytime. Im fact, I am shucking one this month. I credit a colleague I’ve not crossed paths with in a long time, Steve Dembo (he still has his own http://www.teach42.com/ sadly […]

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Time For Daily Photos

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 1, 2021January 1, 2021

Today’s the day to reset the clock on what I find is my own response to Curly’s Law– keeping to a habit of trying to take photographs of something very day, and choosing that One photo to post to flickr as for that day. It means a few things, now just out of the YouTube […]

On Sharing, Photography

Open Not Being the Same as Free, Hence Two Flickr Photo Collections

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on December 29, 2020December 29, 2020

One holiday activity has been some overdue clean up of my pile of flickr photos. It’s time soon to package my album of daily photos for 2020 into a video (again using a magical script by John Johnston). I rarely am at 100% for a year- it happened once. But this year, as always, I […]

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