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Can You PechaImprov the Topic of this post?

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 31, 2019January 31, 2019

I present a wee test for you, kind, gentle savvy reader. Have a run through these 10 random images, and see if you can guess the topic of this post (no scrolling, eh?) How did you do? When I tested it out myself, I was not sure I could pass my own guess test. Yes, […]

Coding

#netnarr Select, Click, ROT Magic

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 29, 2019December 20, 2019

We have some fun in Networked Narratives with coded messages using rot13. Just look at the Daily Digital Alchemy 243: It’s just a simple cipher that works by changing each letter in a word to the one that is 13 letters after (wrapping around after Z). It’s nifty, because being half of the number of […]

Wordpress

Dogfooding My Own WordPress Theme

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 21, 2019September 8, 2022

The first HTML5Up template I turned into a WordPress Theme was WP-Dimension. The great irony was that I made use of the original static HTML theme on my own domain at cog.dog, but never went back to chow my own theme food. The thing that happened I was looking for a kind of welcome mat […]

Memories

65 Years Later: No Cake, David

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 21, 2019January 21, 2019

In its impeccable reminding, my calendar does not have to worry end up being the butt of You Had One Job. Yesterday, was the reminder that it would have been my brother David’s 67th birthday. As it was, he did not see past 34, passing away, likely alone, in a state mental institution in Maryland. […]

Coding

Hammering at OPC (Other People’s Code)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 18, 2019September 30, 2022

I’m not an elegant programmer. My stuff is verbose and rarely, if ever “refactored” (meaning I know it’s a term but fuzzy on the meaning). What follows is a recap of my wandering path in trying to fix someone else’s WordPress plugin. There may be PHP spilling on the screen. You’ve been warned. This all […]

Experiments, Ontario Extend

Ontario Extend mOOC: the soft opening

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 18, 2019January 18, 2019

Yes, life gets curse-like interesting when after mocking something you end up using it. But here we go, the edX hosted mOOC (medium sized Open Online Course) I’ve been working on is getting its first visits. The making of this remains to be blogged (can everything ever be all blogged?), but I assembled a short […]

Blog Pile

A Plugin For Your Blogged Past

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 15, 2019January 15, 2019

Once you have a few years of blogging in your archives, you thus have some history (doh). And I made a little plugin to make it more visible, to generate a list of previous year’s post published on the current day. Just peek at my own page using this. It all started with a tweet […]

Podcasting, Syndicated, The PR Connection

Episode 8: Baby, It’s Cold!

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 14, 2019December 20, 2019

https://s3.amazonaws.com/prconnection/ep008.mp3 Talking to Antonio in December he made it sound like he was in a scene from The Day After…

Blog Pile

Digging into an obscure WordPress Error; not quite Brain Surgery

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 9, 2019January 9, 2019

You are working on some project and just decide to look at an older WordPress site that should be just sitting there humming along, and see this… Fatal is not pretty. My hunch is that since it is a reference to “undefined function mysql_connect()” that it’s related to the changes in PHP 7 – I […]

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Turning Up the SPLOTbox Amp to 11.5: New Features

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 8, 2019January 10, 2019

It’s felt like maybe as long as a week since I blogged something about SPLOTs… that’s a long span 😉 But in that time I have been doing some major banging on the tubes and pedals to add big new features to the SPLOTbox theme. This theme was one of the later ones done, and […]

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