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 December 13th
- 2022
- Question Experiment Connect This (with all the alt) Nothing new here, is there ever? But I am a bit tired of every post to Mastodon WordPress plugin (and ActivityPub too) sends there a featured image without the alt text entered here in WordPress. I end up getting (correctly) slapped by the Please Caption bot! So I am switching the posting there to use […]
- Toot in/em bed In a fit of desperate desire to not be awash in social media slush of the twitter muskification as explained via ChatGPT, I am resorting to perhaps the worst blog post title since… (searching them all in vain) ever. Yes, to be honest yesterday’s foray into coding some means to extend what WordPress could do […]
- 2018
- What to do When Your WordPress Parents Change? Important Update for TRU Writer SPLOT Things can go crazy for you when your parents go changing… especially when that’s a change in a WordPress parent theme. This might be important for you if you have used the TRU Writer SPLOT theme. I got a message from Tim Owens about a site where the featured images disappeared; there was an error […]
- 2017
- SPLOT Request Line: Sometimes You Get What You Asked For, Sometimes More, Sometimes… Look out 2018, SPLOTs are gonna be in ya. I’ve had a great twitter conversation with Daniel Villar at Coventry University’s Disruptive Media Learning Lab where he has been working on their Domain of One’s Own efforts as coventry.domains. It appears he has a fondness for SPLOTs too. He put the Image Collector one to […]
- 2014
- Try Out / Please Break TRU Writer? Saying I am excited is an understatement for the tinkering that has produced the previously described TRU Writer site. I spent time on a Friday night just fiddling with functionality no one will ever notice. In summary, the notion of the SPLOTs I am working on here at TRU with Brian Lamb is… well here […]
- 2013
- Friday the 13th. Forget Jason. It’s a ds106 GIFaChrome Launch / Headless Campfire Jamboree It’s almost here; a double headed blow out event that brings together 2 strands of Headless ds106 together. It’s a GIFtastic camera and a campfire! And we burn some old media! You can tune into these LIVE on ds106 Radio. The emergence of the GIFaChrome phenomena and its interest amount ds106ers has enabled us to […]
- 2012
- There is a Place Like Not Home Weeks and weeks had passed by, like listless grass blowing down the dirt lane, since she had returned home. Still, no one was going to challenge Dorothy as the saddest person in Seward County, perhaps in all of West Kansas. Not the moping cows, not even the Rogers family who lost their grain silo, two […]
- Dorothy and Robert Mix It Up This should be the last piece of media for my Dorothy ds106 story. I have been wanting to the dialog mashup assignment since I heard the first examples from listening to the stellar examples from The Truth’s episode of Movie Mashups: As demonstrated by the Movies Mashup episode of the radio show The Truth, take […]
- What is Dorothy Doing Shopping at the Villaggio? Another element I am using in my story is that Dorothy figure ut that to return to Oz, she would need to go shopping and find a new pair of ruby slippers, since you cannot expect to just fall out of the sky again and land on another witch. So she has to go shopping […]
- Travel Hippy Style With Ozmomatics As part of a ds106 final project story I am doing based on the Wizard of Oz, I have a part where Dorothy decides to go back to Oz. Not knowing how to find another tornado to whip her house (no one in Liberal, Kansas could explain how the house that was whipped to Oz […]
- emoH ekiL ecalP oN s’erehT In my story of Dorothy getting bored in Kansas, I wanted to have a way for her to go back to Oz, and the easiest way would be via the Play It Backward, Jack ds106 assignment: Things always look super weird when you play them in reverse, don’t they? So take a video of something […]
- Keep Clicking Those Ruby GIF Slippers What could be more key and symbolic of the magic of Oz than the red slippers that Dorothy snagged from the Wicked Witch who got mushed by her flying house? The fact that Dorothy always had the magic but did not know it until sparkly Good Witch clued her in. This GIF is done for […]
- She Would Rather Party in Oz Why was Dorothy so set n going back to drab, black and white Kansas? Was Auntie Em that much of the life of the party? If the truth were told, she would have expressed her desire to hang out with those wild Munchkins: As part of my evolving Dorothy story, this is the ds106 Truthful […]
- Which Side of the Rainbow, Dorothy? Dorothy seems timeless even looking back at the Wizard of Oz from maybe 80 years past its time. But her statue I saw on the streets of Liberal Kansas seemed kind of old, maybe it was just the texture of the metal, but I speculated she might get nostalgic for her own youth (or at […]
- GIFing the Streets of Liberal On my trek home earlier this month, I picked off of the map a route in Kansas that would take me through the near Texas border town of “Liberal” – which I read on a plaque has nothing to do with politics– it was in reference to the sharing of water liberally by the first […]
- 2008
- Nifty DIY hacks for your Camera Lifehacker’s Top 10 DIY Photography Tools is a mine of nifty gems for photographers to up their own photo mojo. Besides what I learned (see below), I am finding myself thinking more about the rise of the DIY (Do It Yourself) culture on the net- there surely is a future blog post relating that to […]
- 2007
- I got… err… try-ed an iPhone Just came across TryPhone a site that offers web based interactive interfaces for a wide range of mobile phones. Seems a great way to see the features. And in the spirit of good embed-ness, you can put any of this in a web page. So before I do this, my own backl story. I have […]
- 2005
- Typography, Web Style New reference for web design CSS junkies, and a nice example to demonstrate web pages need not be collections of boxes: The Elements of Typographic Style Apple to the Web: Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style is on many a designer’s bookshelf and is considered to be a classic in the field… In […]
- My Friend, My Hero, Disk Warrior If you are a serious to semi-serious Mac user and do not own a copy of Alsoft Diskwarrior, stop reading this, run, out and buy one. Shouldn’t you have: … the most highly decorated Mac disk repair utility ever. It repairs disks that no other program can repair… DiskWarrior is the safest, the most technologically […]
- 2004
- Dissecting the Code: Google Suggest Found surfing RSS feeds of someone else’s del.icio.us tagged bag… If you’ve not come across the beta of Google’s new feature, take a peek at Google Suggest, which works like autocomplete by responding with common/popular search queries based on the first few letters you type in the search field. What do you think? Dose of […]
- Hey Phentermine Pusher: You Left Your Roach Prints in Our Spam Honey Pot Spammers can hid, but they are not invisible. On Dec 10, I invited readers of this blog to send us some Trackbacks to MLX Packages… while I am eager to see this technology used, this was actually a bit of bait. Our regular MLX spammer bit the bait completely. Within a few days, they triggered […]
- 2003
- Take Back What Net? Supposedly in “Take Back the Net”, the Dec 30 issue of PC Magazine has sent Blogging, wikis, and RSS mainstream, according to a entry by Michelle. The article does provide a nice overview of the range of major blog tools, has some decent resources, etc, but there are some statements in the opening that have […]
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