Archive for April, 2006

One of the great comments on my BCEdOnline2006 Unkeynote Debriefing included a link to a wiki page by Chris Corrigan on Open Space Technology - a set of ideas, practices and guidelines for conducting "open space" meetings. Very cool stuff, and it resonated quite well with what we got to do as part of... »

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Scott Adams (you know, the Dilbert guy) just posted his version of Occam's Razor. Scott's version goes like this: The explanation that you believe is correct will always seem simplest to you. - Scott Adams Soooo true. It's a better way of rephrasing the old "when you've got a hammer in hand, everything starts to look like... »

There might be some downtime in the next little while as my blog migrates to a new server. Thanks Sami for the insanely generous offer! Things should be back soon. If you can read this, you're looking at the shiny new server at Etopian Global Hosting Headquarters. »

The performance of my shared server at GoDaddy leaves a LOT to be desired. Pages render out of the database in several seconds, when they should be easily generated in under a second. Their tech support response was to blame images and javascript, when the actual database-based page generation itself is waaaay too slow.... »

While we were on the 35th floor of the Coast Plaza Hotel in Vancouver for a session at BCEdOnline2006, I snapped a dozen or so photos of the panoramic view. I was thinking I'd stitch them into separate panos to capture the view, but I just spent a few minutes in Photoshop manually stitching... »

We were able to record that Intro to Podcasting presentation I gave on Wednesday, and the video has been processed and compressed. The audio is a bit wonky because the microphones were fixed and all turned on - and I wasn't wearing a lapel mic so I get hard to hear as I wander... »

I'm sitting in the airport in Vancouver (and later on the plane coming home) and wanted to capture some of the thoughts I have about how the keynote went. I'm absolutely exhausted, so I'm not sure how coherent this is going to be, but it's important to get this down before it's glossed over... »

I'm sitting in the hotel lobby with Brian and Stephen, putting some thought into wtf we're going to try during our keynote. One idea Stephen had was to have an open web-based chat room, so attendees (physical or virtual) could ask questions, make comments, etc... without the intimidation of grabbing the microphone. After a quick... »

here's the audio from the intro... »