just a lowly edtech geek, mumble mumble university of calgary
From the monthly archives:
I’ve been struggling with this all day. Haven’t found much help on the Telus website, and their tech agents haven’t had much in the way of helpful suggestions.
I use Telus DSL at home, recently switching to the TelusTV service (which apparently also affects the internet service, as the internet guys keep forwarding me to the [...]
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I had to debug our TLC website this morning, as it was pointed out to me that parts were misbehaving, and that some content hadn’t survived the upgrade from Drupal 4.7 to Drupal 5.2. The missing content was easy, for the most part. It’s just a matter of renaming the tables to use the content_TABLE [...]
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I’ve been trying a workflow to stick to a GTD plan. Now that I’ve got my email inbox mostly wrestled under control, I’m working more with 2 other apps that have really helped me keep on top of things. Is the plan perfect? Well… I’m writing a blog post instead of Getting Things Done, so [...]
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This week, at the North American Leaders Summit in Montebello, Quebec, 3 undercover police officers pretended to be protesters in an attempt to provoke violent incidents. The entire series of events was captured on video, and shared via YouTube. The cops are the three goons with bandanas over their faces. None of the real protesters [...]
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Watching Merlin Mann’s “Inbox Zero” presentation at Google. I got inspired to stop saving emails for CYA purposes. I just deleted over 1600 messages that were accumulating in my inbox. I saved less than 100, into a “Deadmail” archive folder.
This is the cleanest my inbox has looked since I got the account in 1987. Yes. [...]
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Another silly quiz, claiming to calculate one’s blog addiction score. pfff. it’s waaaaay off.
85%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?
Definitely skewed low. Some MySpacers are probably blowing the curve. Good thing they didn’t include Twitter and Flickr. I’d be in the triple digits easily…
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This BikeCam slideshow is the other way, both in direction and technique. I stuck the camera on the handlebars for the ride home, and used QuickTime Pro’s “Open Image Sequence…” feature to build a movie at 2fps automagically. That took maybe 5 minutes, including the resized export of all images from Aperture. That was muuuuch [...]
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This morning, I strapped a camera to my handlebars, and took 106 shots during the 30-minute morning commute. Here’s the outcome:
[flv:http://www.darcynorman.net/video/BikeCam_480_270.flv 480 270]
Soundtrack: Pedal Pushing, by MC Abdominal
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In the Teaching & Learning Centre, we run a couple of servers, each with a dozen or so Drupal sites installed in a multisite configuration (one copy of Drupal, using the sites directory to respond to various URLs). With every update to core or modules, the update.php file needs to be called for each site. [...]
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It’s been awhile since I’ve posted one of these. My head is pretty obviously still on Maui. If only there was a demand for lowly edtech geeks on Maui…
All but 3 of these shots are from Hawaii, and most of them are from Maui. 10 points to the first person to identify all 3 non-Hawaii [...]
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