Archive for November, 2008

I’ve scheduled email autoresponders, updated my voicemail, disabled blog comments. I’m now out of the office until Dec. 8, and will be offline for almost the entire time. See you on the other side. »

It’s a really damned scary place, where I’m the one speaking calmly and acting as the voice of reason. It’s happened rather more frequently than I’m comfortable with lately, both online and off. I don’t know if it’s “the economy”, or the shorter days, or something else, but some people seem to have collectively lost... »

The website for Northern Voice 2009 just went live, so the date for WordCamp Education Vancouver 2009 is set. Thursday, February 19, 2009 in Vancouver – the day before Northern Voice (which runs February 20-21 in Vancouver – BE THERE!). The venue for WordCamp Education hasn’t been set yet, but we’ll find a place either... »

I’m dropping offline soon for a couple of weeks on a family vacation. I’m bringing a book or two, but want to stuff some blog posts and articles that I’ve probably neglected onto my iPod for more in-depth reading. I’m planning on using Instapaper to bring offline copies of stuff so I can read... »

Following a thread through some blog posts this morning – I started at The Reverend’s post about Martha’s documentation of her hacking on WPMU, including a description of a WordPress plugin I hadn’t heard of before – Flutter. Damn. The Rev’s gonna love this. One of the things I LOVE about Drupal is the fantastic CCK... »

Brian wrote a great post about the focus on content creation in the open education movement. There were some great comments on that post – some arguing (correctly, IMO) that there isn’t enough great content available. But even that misses the point, I fear. Content is the least important part of education. What is... »

I’ve been meaning to redesign the main site at UCalgaryBlogs.ca for awhile now – the Edublogs Clean theme isn’t intended to be dropped in as a stock theme, but as a starting point for hacking something tailor-made. The Edu-Clean theme is available as part of the fantastic Premium WPMUDev subscription – and it certainly... »

I’m not sure why people put miles-long blogrolls on every page of their blogs. Sure, have a “links” page. But every single page containing a list of all the blogs you read? Some apparently several hundred long? Page bloat. Just because there’s a widget for Blogroll doesn’t mean you need to use it. On... »

holy CRAP have the spammers ever cranked things up a knotch. Fracking spammers. almost all are being blocked at the gates, but it’s frustrating think of all that wasted energy (electrical and individual)… »

I was interviewed yesterday for a CBC Radio News report that was on the air this morning. We talked for about 15 minutes, and most of it hit the cutting room floor. But at least the bits that got broadcast weren’t too embarrassing… CBC Radio News – Bikes in Calgary Update: apparently they used different clips... »