We just launched the new website for the Teaching & Learning Centre at The University of Calgary. It's been a long time in the making, with heavy use of themes, custom CCK content types, events, signups, views, and a bunch of other Drupal modules and tricks. King worked his usual magic in putting together... »
I've been trying to log into the SecondLife presentations (starting with the big NMC Impact of Digital Media Symposium, and then wanting to follow up on some of the blog posts about it).But, SecondLife keeps throwing my Quad G5 into a kernel panic whenever I launch it. Or, rather, I can launch it, but... »
I just grabbed the latest CVS build of Drupal 5, to poke around and see what's new. I'm really surprised and impressed at how far it's come. Here are the big changes I've seen in about half an hour of playing with a new test site:New theme. Garland feels much more modern than Bluemarine.... »
After some really spectacular fall days, winter's here. Right on schedule, just before Halloween.Here's the webcam view from ShawTV, looking north from near the Stampede Grounds. That's downtown Calgary. Hiding beneath the snow and ice piled up on the camera. »
I've been trying to move domain registration and DNS hosting for darcynorman.net from GoDaddy to Dreamhost for a couple of months. It's been a long and frustrating process, involving faxing my driver's license to Arizona to somehow prove I am who I say I am.I just logged into my Dreamhost account to check on... »
Alan wrote up a post on "linktribution" (the concept of providing attribution for a link to a web page, flickr image, etc...) and in the comments, Scott replied that (perhaps a more broad concept such as) Creative Commons would be a better Big Picture meme to propagate.Which got me thinking about my experience with... »
I tried a couple of times this morning to join a webcast offered by Apple, on the topic of using Lectopia to capture and distribute lectures (and other material). Something that would be useful, say, at a large-ish university that spends a fair amount of time and effort on online and blended learning.Instead of... »
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Shopping for Zoom LensI've been jonesing for a zoom lens since I picked up my Canon XT back in June. The kit lens is not too bad (aside from some chromatic aberration), but a longer lens would be great. I had been eyeing the Canon 55-200 EF lens, at around $300 bucks at the... »
I've been using Aperture for a couple of weeks, in somewhat light usage (some days not at all, others, like today, with it open for most of the day). I've got a few gigs of images in my Aperture library, without importing my iPhoto images (I decided it's not worth having an out-of-sync snapshot... »
