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December 2004
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Happy …. Oh just have a good break ;-)
That’s me done until December 29th! Thanks to folks out there for their feedback and support throughout what has been a rather challenging year for me. I am so thoroughly looking forward to 2005. For those of you who don’t know, I work out of a home office in my basement, and so the people [...]
IT Conversations: David Brin – Evaluating Horizons
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail358.html Via the IT Conversations RSS feed came news of this talk by one of my all-time favourite Science Fiction writers, David Brin. Many people are unfortunately only familiar with Brin through the film adaption of one of his novels, The Postman (remember Kevin Costner as post-apocalyptic delivery guy on horseback). I’m with Stephen in [...]
From Boat Anchor to Windows-Slayer in an afternoon
No, this isn’t a ‘how to’ posting, more a short account of how I spent my weekend turning my clunky old laptop into a shiny new Linux box. I bought my laptop, a Compaq Presario 1246 (don’t ask, it was all I could afford at the time) back in 1999. It served me o.k. for [...]
ECAR Presentation – Open Source Software: Risks and Rewards
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ECR0405.pdf Usefull presentation from Gary Hein of the Burton Group that lays out both the risks and rewards of open source adoption. Worth sending your CIO if they still don’t ‘get it.’ – SWL
New URL for Combined Edubloggers Links Feed
http://groups.blogdigger.com/groups.jsp?id=697 A few weeks back I posted about a feed I had created using Rollup.org that rolled together the RSS feeds from such Edublogging luminaries as Alan Levine, Brian Lamb and Will Richardson. No sooner did this get started then Rollup.org announces that it is closing its doors (lending some real credibility to Derek Morrison’s [...]
Will design courses for food!
http://tinyurl.com/5wp5b I couldn’t resist passing this on – one of the local universities is offering to create an online course using their own course development software if the recipient makes a largish donation to one of the Christmas chariities. Great way for Roger to promote the costs savings of using his tool, and hopefully they [...]
MT 3.121, Blacklist v2.01b and Comment Spam Blocking Bliss
I’m probably the last Moveable Type user to realize this, but boy does your blogging life get a whole lot easier by upgrading to MT 3 and using the newly updated MT Blacklist 2.01b release. The new Blacklist plugin very handily throws comments with too many URLs or ones on really old posts into your [...]
EdTechPost Wiki bites the dust, partially resurrected
After a stressful week last week where I had my hosting company threaten to pull the plug on EdTechPost if the MT Comments script didn’t stop hammering their servers (due to comments spammers and my not having upgraded to 3.12 yet) today I had a somewhat contrite (though not nearly enough in my book) help [...]
Firstlight.ca – commercial "royalty free/rights managed images and footage" repository
http://www.firstlight.ca/ Sent to me by a colleague as a “Canadian example of digital rights managment for digital media,” (thanks Brian!), this is worth pondering for those in the repository building business. The site uses a lot of Javascript, frames and flash which makes it a real pain to try and point out specific aspects to [...]
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