Blogged This Day

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 22 posts previously published on November 23rd

  • 2023
    • The Last Herondorf A reminder today from my Google Family Calendar, a descendent of my Mom’s paper habit of tracking events, read Dorothy b (1931). That means today her youngest sister aka Aunt Dorothy, turns 92 today. She is the last remaining sibling from the five kids my mom’s parents raised in the 1920s and 1930s, a Baltimore […]
    • Weil & Braun (& CogDog) Trick: Fixing Tech I Don’t Understand It’s the little things, at least for me. With some luck and guesses sometimes I can fix technologies I do not understand the workings of. This is purely a followup for maybe one of my favorite web browser tools that I guess I might be the sole user of, the Library of Congress Free to […]
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • Seeing The Web As it Looks Without Image Alt Text I’m no guru on web accessibility, most of my projects likely will fail to meet the standards. But I am more interested in the small things we can and ought to do to at least try better. Somehow in the last year that has popped up for me a few times looking at how Twitter […]
  • 2020
    • Small Adjustments to the #ds106 Assignment Bank SPLOT As best I can find from old posts, I started messing around with making a WordPress theme to provide a functionality of the ds106 Assignment Bank in July of 2013. So while lumped in as a SPLOT, it was actually pre-SPLOT. Like anyone cares. But it’s really one of my favorites to use in projects […]
  • 2019
    • TFW You’ve Forgotten Your Kid’s Fifth Birthday But then again, no one else remembered… does that make it right? I had a good enough clue this week when Tom Woodward tweeted: That ancient tweet? Well something pivotal for me happened October 28, 2014: Five years later, I am playing with the hated acronym. If you want the scoop, see the quasi-official origin […]
  • 2018
    • Reclaiming My Presentation Archive Nuked By Wikispaces There is a pattern to my blogging where I think I am sitting down to write a post, then referring back to an older one, and finding it has a reference or link into it that links to one of my wikispaces sites that are all dead dead dead. Then I end up parsing through […]
  • 2016
    • The [Not So] Lost Recipe of Grandma’s Split Pea Soup Yes, here comes yet another family memory story about my grandmother, who shall be referred to usually as “granny”. I’m still working through the adaption to TapeWrite of her telling them recorded in 1994. Another long ago memory came to me a few weeks ago, the taste of her thick split pea soup. As a […]
  • 2014
    • The Notery – An Idea for Shared Work Narrating Insert here placeholder for dogfooding metaphor That’s my weak play at irony. I’m fleshing out an idea for a project I hope to start tinkering with; normally I might want to have a bit more to show before talking about it, but oh… the irony. The name for it came to me while driving around […]
  • 2013
    • Remix Cory’s Mood Room with Mozilla Thimble While finishing up the code and remix for Cory’s Mood Room it dawned on me that this could be something put into Mozilla Thimble so other people could change the content or even use their own images to do the same colorizing effect (see the original version at http://lab.cogdogblog.com/cory/). Here is a screen shot of […]
    • Dog Bands > Boy Bands I spotted Kevin’s Thimble remix “How to Build a Boy Band” which has a play on an album concept and has a nice design. I immediately thought to myself — I bet a Dog Band would be interesting, so doing it the Mozilla Way, I remixed his Thimble: into my own, which of course, is […]
  • 2012
    • Public Display of flickr Affection powered by Fotopedia Our romance started in March, 2004, although I had been seeing someone else– it was this activity we had in common, then I called it Photoblogging. But then I met… flickr. It was, and in many ways still does, to me reppresent the first and foremost social medua experience, even if everyone […]
  • 2011
    • Slice 001: Under the Big Sky Okay Scottlo, I am on track to follow your lead of Always Be Reflecting. Scottlo, aka Scott Lockman, is one of my friends i have never met, an educator in Japan who connected via the narrowest of chances to ds106radio. For the past few weeks, he has been engaging in a practice of audio reflections […]
    • Where Everything Happens (including aquaponics) From the “what was once extraordinary is now obvious” department…. Do we marvel enough at how often we say “I found it on the internet” and it is no big deal? That is what my friend Harry smiles and says at the end of this video- he found the plans for his aquaponics graden on […]
  • 2010
    • Mom Gives Wired Thumbs Down On last year’s visit, Mom was caught up in reading the Wired issue on “Vanished” www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4139016457/ But she and I agree, the Boob issue sadly shows the poor decision to pander to low brow tastes. I have no problem with seeing boobs, but if they cannot sell magazines based on the strength of their writing, […]
  • 2009
    • How the Internet Works (an accumulation of many small acts of kindness) Harvard Law prof Jonathan Zittrain deals with big scary issues, like encroachment of first amendment rights online and the invasions of privacy from bad software. His recent book paints a possible dark future for the internet. So it was a wonderful surprise when on last week’s plane travel I watched his TED Talk on The […]
    • Doha Reflections cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’ve been home a few days now following a 2 week travel route that included the last week in Doha, Qatar to participate in the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE). It was an unusual meeting/trip/experience on several fronts, and I’m baffled trying to find a coherent thread […]
  • 2008
    • Storm The Walled Gardens From a Side Door I have an idea how some rag tag blog army can storm the castle of the Walled Garden Content Horders and do some damage. Maybe. It is likely a dumb idea that someone will poke the Hummer sized holes in. This just flickered n when I read Clarence Fisher’s Twitter gripe: What he is saying […]
    • Slow Blogging is in Fashion and in Style How cool is this (and found via a tweet from Barbara Sawhill– twitterbution!)? Barbara Ganley splashes the New York Times on its story of Haste, Scorned: Blogging at a Snail’s Pace: When Barbara Ganley wants to collect her thoughts, she walks in the Vermont countryside, wanders home and blogs about it. In a recent post, […]
  • 2007
    • Morning Bacn Morning Bacn posted 23 Nov ’07, 6.30am MST PST on flickr Thanks Facebook, for the hefty morning meal of bacn. All these extra calories after Thanksgiving are making me want to auuughhhhhtttthhhhpffffhhhhhhh.
  • 2005
    • Surrealistic Hold Trying to make a doctor appointment, I am on hold, and what music comes piping in? It is Led Zeppelin doing Whole Lotta Love, not some muzaked version (I had an elevator experience with a Muzakized Stairway to Heaven). Yup, Dr G’s office phone is rockin’: You need coolin’, baby, I’m not foolin’, I’m gonna […]
  • 2004

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