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. The account is now 20 years old. Actually, this is probably even cleaner than that, since it came with a “Welcome” message, IIRC.
Read MoreAnother silly quiz, claiming to calculate one’s blog addiction score. pfff. it’s waaaaay off.
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…
Read MoreThis 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 easier/quicker than the way I built the last one (using iMovie - that was pretty easy, but this was just pointing QuickTime at a directory and exporting the result). Easy peasy.
Read MoreThis morning, I strapped a camera to my handlebars, and took 106 shots during the 30-minute morning commute. Here’s the outcome:
[flv:https://darcynorman.net/video/BikeCam_480_270.flv 480 270]
Soundtrack: Pedal Pushing, by MC Abdominal
Read MoreIn 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. That’s not too onerous, but is a bit of a PITA.
Our central IT shop at the University of Calgary has a whole ’nother problem. Their Drupal server is currently running well over 400 sites. So, calling update.php on each one effectively means having a bunch of folks (students? interns?) clicking through the update.php screens for each site. Say it takes maybe 5 minutes per site, that’s over 30 hours of labour to update all sites. And new sites are added every day.
Read MoreIt’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 photos in this set of Faves…
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.
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreI 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.
I read David’s post on the proposed new Open Education License, and I’ve been struggling to understand why a new license is needed. Here’s the comment I left on David’s post:
Read MoreMy 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.
Read MoreI’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:
Read MoreFeed 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.
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