Archive for January, 2006

Trying the free blog editing client app Bleezer - it's a cross-platform java app. A little rough around the edges, but has a pretty decent UI (but categories are provided in a popup, so you can select only one category for a post). The editor is not WYSIWYG, but toggles to preview mode easily. It... »

The Performancing extension for Firefox was just updated, and they added some great new stuff. It's now tied into del.icio.us, and adds a "Page Tools" view that looks up the current web page in Technorati (handy, but no handier than a bookmarklet). Firefox is still not quite as nice as Safari, so I don't think... »

It's been a LONG time since I've played with Ecto. I used the previous incarnation (KungLog) before it changed to become Ecto, and lost touch with it since then. I've been using the browser-based WordPress posting interface almost exclusively, with occasional dabbles into the worlds of Firefox+Performancing and Flock. Gotta say, I'm less impressed with... »

It was pointed out that I'd neglected to have a "presentations" page, so there was no easy way to grab stuff from any of the presentations that I've had the chance to be involved with. I just added a new "Presentations" section, listing (I think) every presentation I've done since I started here at the... »

The problems with the adoption and implementation of the previous versions of the LOM are apparently solved by the addition of more definitions of structured taxonomy-driven authoritative metadata systems. I'm posting this to remind myself to not get sucked into this stuff. It's good that people are thinking about how to improve on the LOM,... »

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This post is the 1,000th post I've made to my blog (not counting the ones that made up the early months of the blog, which have been lost forever). As I've been publishing more stuff to it, writing more, ranting more, it's interesting (and curious) to see the fluctuations in traffic to the blog.... »

I was able to put together a version of the presentation as an "enhanced podcast" using a borrowed copy of Garage Band '06. It worked very well for the task, with one glaring issue - apparently GB can't handle audio longer than 65 minutes, so the last couple of minutes of the presentation audio... »

I can't believe it's been 20 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after takeoff on January 28, 1986. I can still remember seeing that horrific column of smoke and fire from the still-burning boosters. Damned frozen O-rings and dysfunctional communication in NASA. Christa McAuliffe was to be the first schoolteacher in space, sent... »

I'd planned on releasing a full presentation+audio version of the presentation, but it's going to take me weeks to sync up the 105 slides to the 1-hour audio track. So, in the meantime, here's the audio-only portion of the presentation (27.2MB MP3). Not sure how well it stands on its own, but it might come... »