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 12 posts previously published on December 8th
- 2024
- Roll Your Own Mastodon Starter Kits It looks like there is a crowd rush to jump from The Platform I will Only Ever Call Twitter to Bluesky. Huge numbers. Much because there is no learning curve. It looks and feels like Twitter not so olde. But also, folks are finding the just add water to the instant mix of the Bluesky […]
- 2019
- A Big SPLOTbox Full of a Lotta of Little Features BBFWLLT is a family joke/story. When my Mom asked what I wanted for a gift (singular), my little kid brain produced a clever strategy to get more out of the deal. I would ask for a “Big Box Full of a Whole Lotta Little Toys.” This feels like the perfect metaphor for the latest version […]
- 2016
- Shifting Those Google Form Data Spreadsheets into Reverse (Order) Nothing earth shaking or melting here, but an answer to an annoyance I have with some uses of Google Forms. I hate un-necessary scrolling. When you have the results go to a spreadsheet, one of the bothersome things is that new data gets added to the bottom. At some level, that means that I always […]
- 2014
- And There is Nixon and Elvis Oh Google, what you do with my keywords. Unexpected images, then leading me down some memories. It’s mostly connected in loose strands of unexpected fibers. So I am working on an icon for a new secret half formed thing Brian Lamb and I are cooking up here at TRU. The metaphor is somewhat in the […]
- 2013
- Daily Create Remix of a Remix of a … As an experiment, the last 4 ds106 Daily Creates have been designed hatched to be ones where each builds off of the last. I did this partly to see if such a thing would work, but maybe also as a repeatable activity in doing remixes where the participants build off of each other’s work. The […]
- 2012
- My God, It’s Full of Stories cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by entrelec No one denies the power of story. We are wired for storytelling. It’s the world’s oldest tradition. It’s what makes us human. It matters for game designers. It produces results in business. People who market brands and specialize in SEO are storytellers. And […]
- 2009
- Ford Wave cc licensed flickr photo shared by gamp Taking a page from Google, there is new announcement from the automobile industry: BillyBob and Melba Bootwaddle, the original creators of the reverse flow corn cob floating ball carburetor, will take the stage to unveil their latest project, Ford Wave. As BillyBob describes it, “Knowing what we do […]
- 2006
- Autograph My Mouse, Please… Just got back home from a tremendous 2 days of NMC meetings (wow, I never thought “tremendous” went with “meetings” but ours are) where I was able to check off one of my 43 people… the legendary Doug Engelbart. And of course the reflex association goes to “yeah, he’s the guy that invented the mouse…” […]
- 2005
- MCLI iForum Released We announced to Maricopa today the availability of our MCLI iForum at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/iforum/ This is the first online version of the print publication we’ve run for many years. This is all built in WordPress. Our hope for upcoming issues is to have people submit drafts remotely, but with a time press, we had folks send […]
- 2004
- My Not So Greatest Playlist Meme of ’04 Just following the cue of Señor D’Arcy, here is what popped of the shuffling of my meager iTunes song list (I hardly ever tune in and cannot even remember why I loaded these)… 1 Destroyer The Kinks 2 Girls Got Rhythm ACDC 3 Polythene Pam The Beatles 4 Pure And Easy The Who 5 Love […]
- 2003
- LOP: Learning Objects Portal From Seneca College in Ontario, Canada comes a new Learning Objects Portal Page: ….a gateway to many resources about learning objects and repositories. We invite you to meander through the portal sections below based on your interest. f you like to discover through interaction, we suggest you visit our “Activities” section… This site is intended […]
- X Marks the (Jade) Spot It is in the building… not only that, it is on my desk. “It” is a brand new Apple XServe, and soon will be home to all of our MT blogs as well as hosting some experimental eportfolio services as well. “It” is a 1.3 GHz screamer replacing an old 500 MHz PIII currently hosting […]
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