Went trick-or-treating with Evan this evening - the first year that he actually got into it. He had fun, and I was actually dragging him near the end because he was exhausted (no - not a Bataan death march, just a very busy day). And, the last pic I took tonight, I think is one... »
I just did a very dangerous thing. I downloaded the latest version of Second Life - one of those immersive massively multiplayer doowackies that I never really got into. I just threw an hour away twiddling bits to make my Second Life character kinda sorta look like me, then starting to wander around Tutorial... »
Brian just linked to a great description of how blogging can affect reading and writing in the classroom. The blog he linked to is one I hadn't come across in my travels, so I'm dutifully subscribing. Some good thinking about this stuff in Konrad's blog. What hit me in this post was the simple and... »
I just grabbed the Locomotive distro of Ruby on Rails for MacOSX - what a nice package! Includes the latest build of Rails, a fresh copy of Ruby, all of the database connectors, RMagick and ImageMagick, some AJAX libraries, and a bunch of other stuff to play with. Best part is - it's all... »
I'm really digging OmniWeb. It's got lots of cool stuff that work as I would expect them to, not as if they were ported from some other source. It behaves as a great MacOSX app should. Over the weekend, I was writing up a blog post, and when I got to about 75% done, I... »
One of the things that Blogbridge has allowed me to do is rather dramatically increase the number of feeds I actively track. That includes re-subscribing to Scoble's new Wordpress.com blog. Yesterday, something came through Scoble's feed that sent a chill through me. He was talking about how he finally understands "Attention" as described by Steve... »
I'd emailed my alderman this summer to ask for a copy of the disaster response plan for Calgary, in light of recent events. I figured it would be a Good Idea™ to give the plan a once-over before a disaster struck, since by then we'd be too busy feasting on the goo in each... »
Oh, man! I want to do this. Somehow, I think I'd get a citation or something. Sony dropped a bajillion superballs down the hilly streets of San Francisco to film an ad for their new Bravia line. Not in the market for a new TV, but the ad sure looks hella fun. I'm sure glad... »
I just installed Akismet - the "official" antispam solution for WordPress. Ok. It's not really official, but it's written by PhotoMatt - the lead of WordPress - which makes it official enough. I'm a bit nervous about deactivating Spam Karma 2 - which has performed absolutely flawlessly (and silently), but am curious about the distributed... »
I've been playing with different browsers for the last couple of weeks (Safari, Flock, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, iCab), and kept coming back to Safari because it just plain "feels" right. The other apps feel ported, in some parts poorly. Then, Les Orchard reminded me of OmniWeb. I've always loved OmniWeb, but the rendering engine... »
