Our main Teaching & Learning Centre website runs on Drupal, with extensive use of CCK, Views, Events and Signup modules. The site had been running on the Drupal 4.7, with only security patches applied. But it was starting to act up (content was suddenly not showing up), so I decided to pull everything up to the current 5.2 line, with updated modules. It’s an easy enough upgrade. When it works.
The CCK update appears to have really botched things. As in, most of our custom content types are now missing data for several of their fields. The data’s safe - I can see it in the database - but it’s not showing up when viewing or editing the nodes. Annoying.
I got an email saying there was something wrong with my feed, as it’s apparently borking in Sage. I can’t seem to reproduce the error here (Sage is borking in general for me, and the feed validates and renders in the aggregators I’ve tested).
Anyone else having problems? Something I should be worried about? Maybe just something intermittent? Something related to Feedburner?
Also, this is posted using the new ecto 3 alpha - I haven’t used a standalone blogging app in years, but if this works, it’s about as close to the perfect app as I can figure. Even offers searching and sorting of Categories, and resizing/uploading of images…
I should preface this with a reminder that I am not a lawyer. I don’t play one on TV, nor the internets. But as someone who creates and publishes a fair amount of content under an unrestrictive Creative Commons license, I have some thoughts on the topic.
My travel for the 2007 Open Education conference in Logan, Utah was approved. I’ve never been to Open Education, but it sounds like an amazing event. And, to top it off, I get to present with Jim, hang out with Brian and Scott, and meet David in person.
I still need to figure out the logistics - there aren’t any direct flights from Calgary to Logan, so I guess I’ll fly to Salt Lake City and hitchhike the rest of the way.
I’ve been experimenting with a copy of BlogBridge Feed Library, to test it out for possible deployment for use by students and faculty here at UCalgary. It’s not an official project, but I think it’s important enough to warrant investigation. What is BlogBridge Feed Library (BBFL)? From their website:
Feed Library (FL) creates a flexible web based structure to showcase Feeds, Reading Lists and Podcasts to employees in your company, or members of your organization. It will be the ‘store’ where users can browse and search for recommendations of content to read with their Aggregators. And, here’s the important point: these are recommendations by people in your organization for people in your organization.
I just went to renew my long-expired .Mac account. It’s only $99.95, and with the new iLife'08 stuff, and syncing, I thought it might be time to re-up. Went to the .Mac website, where I was greeted by a “Welcome back! We missed you!” message. That’s sweet. I see the $99.95 subscription, and click through to the .Mac Currency Table to see what the Canadian rate is. And, surprisingly, they’re asking a $34 premium just because I’m in Canada.
I’ve been completely addicted to the Sharkrunners game hosted by The Discovery Channel. It’s a promotional/educational tool, aligned with their “Shark Week” sweeps week ratings booster. It uses real shark data to position 6 sharks off the southwest coast of California. You are given a boat (not quite a ship) and a few crew members. You have to plot your course to meet up with the sharks, and decide how to collect data. You get dollars for collecting good research data, which can be used to improve the boat, acquire better gear, or to hire new crew members.
Or, is someone just using it as a starting point for some Pipes/GoogleMashup/OPML automated coolness? Either way, Edublogs kicked ass and took names in July.
I once “flew” a 747 when I was about 6 years old. The Captain invited me up to the cockpit, stuck some wings on me, and handed me the controls. He told me not to crash the plane, and the co-pilot was also on his controls, but to a 6 year old, that was pretty cool. Of course, now they’d have a sniper take me down if I got close to the cabin door, and TSA would accuse me of trying to bring the plane down with a BoogerBomb or something. The times, they are a’changin'.
I once shared a plane with an intoxicated Leslie Nielsen. Stop calling me Shirley!
I watched the Simpsons Movie, and laughed so hard I nearly sprayed coke all over the guy in front of me. My face hurt from laughing. OK, so I’m rather juvenile…
We went to the Zoo today, and I brought along the Canon EF 75-300mm f/4-5.6 USM MK II lens. I wanted to try getting up close and personal with some of the animals, which is something I hadn’t really tried before. I’ve usually gone with the point-and-shoot, or just the kit 18-55mm lens on the XT. This was the first time I tried shooting animals at 300mm. I wound up taking 178 photographs. I kept 18, and I’m really quite happy with the shots that survived the cut.
I passed the 1500km mark on the way home today. At 26km/day, I’m hoping to add at least another 1000km before the riding season ends. Following Dave King’s lead, I’m taking a photo at every 100km rollover. Here’s what 1500km looked like:
I’m more than a little crazy for even thinking of doing this, but what the heck. I’m going to try submitting a photo to the inaugural contest. The rules are pretty strict with respect to model releases and any potentially copyrightable works included in photographs (models must provide signed releases, artists must provide copyright release for any sculptures, etc… shown in the photograph).
With those limitations in mind, I’ve selected 7 contenders from the last year. I can’t decide which, if any, to actually submit.
