Archive for September, 2010
students head onto campus on the second day of the fall semester, packing umbrellas against the rain.
via Daring Fireball comes this video by Kirby Ferguson. Remixing isn’t new, and attribution is a shifting thing.
Everything is a Remix from kirby1 on Vimeo.
via Jason Kottke’s fantastic blog, this great, intimate video by Andrea Dorfman and Tanya Davis, on being alone.
This was sent to me by a few people who know my fondness for crafting tin foil hats to protect myself from the all-seeing eye of Google.
The full comic is worth a read as well. It’s possibly true that the puppetmaster has no evil intentions, but that doesn’t mean that we should continue to give anyone power over all of our online presences.
On a related note, an old project on campus was recently resurrected. We took a look at the code and data, and discovered that whoever built it had designed it to store passwords in the database as unencrypted plaintext. On a lark, I tried some of the passwords against the corresponding email accounts. About a third of them worked there, too… (the app is being rebuilt by a third party consultant, after we nuke the unencrypted data so it’s safe to send to the new programmers).
I was pretty well soaked through by the time I got to campus, but at least it was still liquid precipitation…
nearly all of the demolition work is done – some drywall is still left, but it can wait until framing starts.
Evan climbs out of their fort between foundations in his cousin’s house. By next week, this will all be framed in as an exterior wall.
He conquered a huge fear of climbing above the third rung to do this. Awesome.
I stopped by the duck pond to shed my jacket before getting to campus. These little guys were sure I had some breakfast to share with them. They’re certainly less shy than they were in the spring. Also, a little bigger…
the view from the new edtech grad students shared office, on the 6th floor of the Education Tower (in the old Gifted Center).
hungry ducks coming to check me out while I pause by the pond to shed some rain gear before getting to campus.