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 15 posts previously published on January 19th
- 2025
- Links to Text Fragments I feel father comfortable swimming in HTML and writing the stuff by hand (I thought at one time everyone would learn to write HTML). It never tops being refreshing to learn one more trick. This started with a Mastodon post by Bracken Mosbacker: It reminded me that I have many times in the last few […]
- Blog Questions Challenge 2025 (no blog chain breaking) On the road to picking up the blog pace, I was tagged by Brian Bennett, and I will preface with the same thing about some dread of doing a blog version of a mail chain letter. But I follow Brian’s blog (old school style) and hey, what better blog topic is there? Why did you […]
- 2024
- Podcast Feed Fed Directly to YouTube Feel the power of good ole RSS, like shooting lasers from my finger tips. I just used the RSS feed from the OEG Voices Podcast I manage from, yes, a self-managed WordPress site to directly be connected, and updating without me lifting a pinky, to a YouTube hosted podcast. For every item in the feed […]
- What’s the Diff? There you go, a deliberately vague blog post title that give no real indication what this is about. Heck, at this point, 1.5 sentences in, I am questioning myself if I know. Note: I found this post hanging out in my Drafts. Was it left undone? Did I change my mind on publishing? I don’t […]
- 2020
- TLAs for 400: What is an LXP? There’s alway room for another Three Letter Acronym. So did I un-intentionally build an LXP? Tannis Morgan first suggested so in twitter and even more in a recent blog post. But wait a minute- whatsa LXP? As a TLA it sounds buzzword-ish. But because I know and respect Tannis, when she first blogged why these […]
- 2015
- I’m Doing it Wrong: The Daily ____ It’s been one of my long term dream plans to make a generalizable WordPress theme approach to the ds106 Daily Create so people (me included) could create news site to run daily challenges. One of the things I wanted to do differently was to make the way people contribute is via twitter, going back to […]
- 2012
- The Creative Habit and Luke’s Duck The ds106 classes at University of Mary Washington are underway this week- I had my first class last night (with assistance from the Reverend), and I have set up a new blog for ds106 teaching posts (and just to go through same steps I am asking students to do) see http://106tricks.net/. I will next start […]
- First ds106 Class Session (from across the country) Wednesday was my first appearance teaching a section of ds106 for a class at the University of Mary Washington- the one hitch is that I am still in Strawberry, Arizona (here is an extra riddle for my students- what is … Continue reading →
- 2009
- They Shoot Snark, Don’t They? Got Snark by cogdogblog posted 6 Jan ’09, 11.10pm MST PST on flickr Today Amazon delivered my copy of Snark — "It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation" Oh dear. I thought this book would be celebrating my beloved state of mind, but nooo…. In this sharp and witty polemic, New Yorker critic […]
- 2007
- All Kinds of Desktop Cleanup This has nothing to do with new year resolves to live more organized (if that were the case I might be making lists and crossing things off), but I’ve been pleased to de-clutterize my home office, and, at the same time, make it easier to hook more gizmos to my laptop. First was getting a […]
- 2006
- Weird Flash Install Instructions Upgrading to Flash Player 8 for Mac OSX– follow these instructions: Among the billions of reasons I primarily use a Mac is that I do not need to go ask some IT department to give me permission to do something to my computer. In fact it is usually the reverse- when something wants to run […]
- 2005
- Bless You, Google Google has spoken: Web links tagged with rel=nofollow shall not get PageRank. A grand rejoicing has been heard across the land. Well, at least from my office. From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn’t a […]
- Feed Changes that Send Ripples It’s a bit scary when I make a change/edit/?improvement to our Feed2JS (Feed to JavaScript) code, as any glitches or gotchas might show up on the hundreds? thousands? 3? of sites using it (I am basing some large numbers on the 20,000 files that built up in the cache directory). My apologies for hiccups the […]
- 2004
- The Mismanagement of Information (by Information Technology Specialists, No Less) Sending attachments by email has become as ordinary as brushing your teeth… well, substitute your own regular habits. My mom reads and sends attachments. But is this always the best way to manage content that might be useful to others? at a later time? in an environment where it can be indexed and keyword searched? […]
- This Week RSS Winterfest – Same Old, Same Old Format or Not? I am curious to “be” at the January 21-22 online conference, RSS Winterfest. Most conferences, in person or online, I generally approach with low expectations– mainly out of frustration over the years that the only format for professional communication that seems to be used is the 50 minute lecture to a passive audience. I have […]
Featured Image: My Photo Made the April Calendar flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)