Thanks to a tip from Donncha O Caoimh, I was pointed to the new FAlbum plugin for WordPress. It’s a handy Flickr-integration plugin that uses the new Flickr API - even works with my merged Yahoo.com account!
I’ve installed the plugin, and added it to the tabs again. It’s got some minor display funkery, where it looks like it’s not playing nice with K2 (or vice versa), but the plugin itself works great! It would rock if K2 added support for this one…
Read MoreThey sure are persistent little buggers. I think I’ve reverted about 50 pages of wiki spam in the last week, on 2 wikis. The little cretins just won’t take a clue. They’re just smart enough to be able to switch or spoof IP addresses to get around the blocks and bans, but not quite smart enough to realize that I won’t let them win.
And, looking at my Referrer Karma blacklist, there are spamroach URLs in there that make even me blush. I mean, these people have nothing better to do than to register dozens/hundreds of obsene URLs, then feed them into their little script kiddie auto-blog-spammer software and see if they can scrape some Google Juice out of it.
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It wasn’t anywhere near the level they were playing at the end of the last season (over a year ago). The Flames didn’t even show up for the first period, and gave up some silly opportunities in the second and third. They did have one hell of a rally, to come within one point in the third, but because of earlier screwups it was just too much to come back from.
They’re going to announce that the Google Toolbar will be bundled with Safari! That’s groundbreaking news that will change the world! (interesting - meant to link to Jonathan Schwartz’s “the world is about to change” post, but it appears to have oddly vanished…)
Seriously, though, I really hope it’s a video iPod, with a writeable screen ala Newton… I’d cut off my left earbud for one of those…
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Read MoreI decided to give the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for WordPress a shot. It’s going to be supported natively in the K2 theme that I’m using, and UTW comes highly rated. I was a bit nervous about migrating from the Cat2Tag plugin I’m using now, because I wasn’t sure how it would handle ~900 posts that were already categorized. I didn’t want to have to re-tag all of those posts. I picked Cat2Tag because it used the Categories themselves to store tags - so if I decided to switch back to Categories, it was just a matter of turning off a plugin, and doing some housekeeping on the now-messy set of categories. I’ll assume there will be a magical “convert tags back to categories” function sometime in the future…
Read MoreJulian and I were just IMing about how to set up a new Subversion repository - and we both commented about how this process should be documented. King set one up last week, and we said the same thing then.
So, I bit the bullet, and wrote up a first draft of the documentation for the process of creating a new Subversion repository for a Learning Commons project.
I left a page to list all documentation for the Learning Commons, in case the idea takes off and others start doing it…
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The Norman family took the weekend off, and threw Evan a party for his 3rd birthday. Had a bunch of family over to our house for a birthday party - Evan had fun playing with his cousins, and got his Thomas the Tank Engine obsession taken care of for awhile.
Then, we headed north to Edmonton, to hang out at West Edmonton Mall - staying in the Fantasyland hotel right in the mall. Sounds lame, but it’s the largest indoor shopping mall on the planet (for now), and staying in the mall hotel meant we could hit the amusement park and water park without commuting. Evan had a blast - the wavepool was a bigger hit than the waterslides. There were manmade waves that must have been 2-3’ high, with surf and everything. He didn’t want to get out of the water.
Read MoreThat “Big Magazine” I mentioned recently was Business Week, and they published a small snippet from the phone interview I gave. Pick up the next Business Week, and check out the “Gearworld” section, for an article/sidebar written by Elizabeth Woyke and Peter Burrows. I don’t come off sounding like either a raving lunatic, nor a drooling fanboy, so it’s not too bad. It’s a much shorter article than I was thinking it was, based on the information Elizabeth was asking (and suggesting that she had already interviewed several others).
Read MoreNote to self: take a hint…
I got home today to find this postcard in my mailbox, sent by a local church for a series of chill-out workshops coming up this fall…
So, along those lines, I’ll try to finish up what I can tonight after The Boy goes to bed, then I’m going to be mostly off the grid for the weekend. Breathe… :-)
Read MoreFrom the “well, that’s one way to take an afternoon and evening off” department…
There was apparently some kind of chemical (or biological? nobody seems to know anything) spill in the Bio Sciences building shortly before noon today. Since the Learning Commons is on the 5th floor of BioSci, that means we all got to make the journey down the concrete stairways to get the hell out of the building.
Read MoreLast night, it totally hit me just how fried I am. I’ve been fighting off burnout for awhile now, but I think I may have finally succumbed to it. I realized this when, at almost midnight, my family was upstairs fast asleep, and and I continued to work on my PowerBook to try to catch up on the backlog of bugs to fix - not feeling like I was making any progress anyway. I’m having to keep working this late so I don’t have to essentially abandon my family, which I refuse to do.
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