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Thanks Will- Energizing One EduBlogger at A Time

A “web good dog” to Will Richardson for sharing a link to his Learning Times presentation– see Now THAT Was Fun…and Educational (What a Concept!). His blogging/RSS presentation is available for FREE as a streaming audio narrated show, where he is able to talk over and demo things like Bloglines, etc. But the cool thing […]

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The Spam Not Traveled

A tale of two sequential spam emails, in sequential order. First was philosophical spam (one does not see too many of these): Both the material and spiritual worlds are full of opulence, beauty and knowledge, but the spiritual realm is more magnificent due to its being full of knowledge, bliss and eternity. The material creations […]

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Location: Why “Medium” is Extra Small

NBC’s “hit show” Medium is about a psychic who is helping solve cases in what is purported to be Phoenix, Arizona. I believe it is the “Phoenix, near Burbank”. It looks like they are not wasting any money on location shots, because I have yet to see a cactus, a desert rabbit, a creosote bush, […]

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Durl and Blogpulse– More Link Digging Tools

Just a few clicks after posting about digging out interesting link information via del.icio.us and furl, a comment there from Carmen highlighted some more tools to my toolchest. It had been some time since I had seen Durl, which accesses data from del.icio.us and eeks out some backlinks trends, a mini screen shots. In addition, […]

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A Scary Mouse Click

Whew! Today was the day we triggered announcement emails on the final reviews of our internal grants program, MCLI Learning Grants. This is a completely homegrown, online system where all applications, reviews, management, and year end reports are done online. The task today was to run a script that rummages through the database, pulls the […]

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How To Really Get Help

A week silently passed on my simple IT help desk request (read the sad story). There was now a consequence as the main page for our site was hijacked via the vulnerability I reported (see the blurb on this, we were definitely not alone). So since the requests were not answered, I resorted to the […]