Scrolling back the blog in time, inspired by John Johnston to see all posts posted on today’s date in previous years. This is achieved via the WP Posted Today plugin (that’s one I made!).
There are 19 posts previously published on December 6th
- 2024
- Look! PD12M! 12 Million Public Domain Image Data Set, Truly Open, and Including A Mouse The best web gems are ones you find while looking for something else. While following some links on AI data sets I fell into Source.Plus PD12M “a highly aesthetic image-text dataset with novel governance mechanisms.” At 12.4 million image-caption pairs, PD12M is the largest public domain image-text dataset to date, with sufficient size to train […]
- 2023
- It Rhymes with Bot- A Sadly Robotic AI Metaphors SPLOT So you have decided to join in and write some kind of post, article, thought piece about Artificial Intelligence. Of course you have something to add to the pile. And in a flash of brilliance, you turn to one of a kazillion AI Image Generators (according to Google, 1 kazillion = 959,000,000) and you toss […]
- 2019
- Tweaking the Machine when Third Party Web Widgets Go Missing Widgets and little add ons are great for your web site. But know that when they depend on connecting to an outside server, and no one answers… well your site might be toast. Being an organization that sets up online events for people around the world, for Virtually Connecting, a key aid is setting up […]
- 2016
- #CCquest 10: Explain it Like I’m Five? Difference Between Open Source and Creative Commons Is it all about the licenses? Many explanations of Creative Commons make it sounds simple, walk through the questions of the chooser, and out plops the correct license. Go share. It does work well. But deeper understanding often leads to greyer area, where the answers spiral down to technical and jargon related insider language. We […]
- 2013
- The Vastness of the Internet is in its Tiny Weird Crevices cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine The dimensions of a crack in the earth are all relative. I’ve used the Grand Canyon before as e […]
- Got an Hour to Code? Make Time Next Week http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r990CWYtx_o I’m not to sure the relevance of that Bill guy or the Mark dude, but take some time out next week for the An Hour of Code project: It’s a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify “code” and show that anyone can learn the basics to be a maker, a creator, an […]
- 2011
- Slices of Life 004: I Give You These 12… um… 8 Apostles! cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This SLices of Life comes to from the beach, in view of one of the key places I wanted to see in person, the Twelve Apostles along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. Just like Mel Brooks and his Fifteen… Ten Commandments satire, sometimes you […]
- 2010
- Walking: A Higher Resolution Experience cc licensed flickr photo shared by h.koppdelaney “There is this to be said for walking: It’s the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog.”— Edward Abbey Zooming down the road at […]
- 2008
- Blunt Force Presentation Trauma Ow, my head. Modified from cc licensed flickr photo by bionerd I’ve complained about the insanity of conference presentations for longer than I have blogged. To no end, I find myself continually in come sort of presentation induced coma again and again– and as often as not these too are online presentations. You can whack […]
- 2005
- My Teacher Wears a Cowboy Hat and Boots- For Tonight’s Class He Lectured With Guitar and Harmonica I can blog about my big toe and rude telephone trees, but I’ve been completely lax in blogging my experience in going back to the classroom. This semester, my wife and I have been taking an Arizona History class, offered at Maricopa’s Scottsdale Community College. What is remarkable, is the teacher, and reason for taking […]
- A Tale of Two Hung PCs Last night, I was using my wife’s PC laptop to test a web site in Internet Explorer, which nicely reminded my that 11 Critical Updates were needed. After running these and restarted, the machine was totally frozen about 90% into the startup sequence. It was toast. Stretching my minimal PC rescue skills, I was able […]
- Cut It Out Someone out there has been working at hacking this web server. I am so #&$^$ing tired of wasting my time rebuilding it, trying to fortify it, being a server den mom is not in my interest. This web server provides free services such as Feed2JS and the cheerful barkings of this blog among others. Frankly, […]
- By The Time You Get To Phoenix Some people may pay heed to the title of Glen Campbell songs (who is a local, and has even taken tours of the Phoenix Jail) and give me a call or email before landing at Sky Harbor Airport. Micheal Roy, from Wesleyan, and I have exchanged emails for a few years but have always missed […]
- 2004
- Arizona… Believe It Or Not flickr foto Arizona… Believe It Or Notavailable on my flickr December 4, 2004 and it is snowing up at our cabin in Strawberry, Arizona. Yes, believe it or not, Arizona is not just shifting sands of Arabian desert, certainly not here at 5600 elevation. Just returned from a delightful extended weekend at our cabin, and […]
- Spamshirt… Finally! Something Productive You Can do With Spam Spamshirt.com will help you make a customized t-shirt out of of your favorite email spam subject line… or choose from their library. We at spamshirt have come up with a plan: recycling useless spam into sparkling new t-shirts! environmentally conscious, and a new lease of life for all that spam that floods your in-box…. Spamshirt.com […]
- (Meaningful) Feedback Makes the Heart Grow Warmer I’ve written before about the sheer joy of getting feedback on a now 11 year old online Writing HTML tutorial…. see [1] [2] [3], but still get a warm feeling with emails like this one that arrived yesterday: I have read this material for one month (Writting HTML). I think that this material is very […]
- The Final Finish Line for the Last Great MLX Package Race After 3 or 4 extensions, December 8 is the final deadline I have set in the sand for our 4th and final Great Maricopa Learning eXchange Package Race. As outlined in previous presentations, we set up an incentive program to entice people in our system to contribute their learning activities, teaching materials, project summaries to […]
- 2003
- Weather Report With all this east coast blogging about snow and blizzards and stuff (1 blogger, 2 blogger, 3 blogger, more?) I hate to tell you but today it was sunny and about 78 degrees in the Arizona desert. We spent a day in t-shirts strolling the Tempe Festival of the Arts, a fantastic showing of arts, […]
- “Denounce Newswire: All the News that Never Happened” Satire is a high form of art. (that was supposed to be satirical). Someone once told me, and I believed them, that satire comes from an ancient word that meant “to cut flesh.” Well, that means that DENOUNCE NEWSWIRE: All the news that never happened is the king fleshcutter for faked PR news:
Featured Image: My Photo Made the April Calendar flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)