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Last-ish post: So long and thanks for all the fish

This is the last blog post I’ll write here. If you want to skip my droning on about why, you can just head over to the new blog, Open Monologue, at robwall.ca. If you want to stay subscribed to this blog, I’ll be auto-posting the ed-tech links that I bookmark at del.icio.us so and I’ll [...]

4 Countdowns

It occurred to me earlier that starting today, there are four significant countdowns in my life: Tomorrow (Oct. 26) Apple releases Leopard. I suppose this isn’t really that significant or specifically involve me, but I am looking forward to the updated OS. I think that having automated backups via Time Machine will be the best [...]

Feedburnerized

If you are reading StigmergicWeb via an aggregator, you should update the RSS feed to http://feeds.feedburner.com/Stigmergicweb – I’m routing the RSS feed through feedburner. Why? Mostly just morbid curiousity with regards to how many people are actually reading this. And to make use of the way cool WordPress Reports plugin! And if you aren’t reading [...]

Spring Cleaning

I’m upgrading and clearing out some of the detritus. Things may look a little goofy for a while, until I get the Markdown plugin installed.

Testing markdown

**Update/rewrite** I just installed the [PHP Markdown Extra plugin](http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/) in the blog, and it **seems** to be *working* My main reason for wanting a Markdown plugin is to use the offline blogging capabilities built into [Textmate](http://macromates.com/), especially with the introduction of the new [Blogmate](http://ditchnet.org/blogmate/) plugin. If the site blows up … well, I guess if [...]

Hello to my students

I’ve found out that my students have found my blog. I guess its time to stop talking about them. ;^) Just kidding, James (and anyone else who wanders this way). Feel free to check in every once in a while. I spend a lot of time talking about students, so you can even correct me [...]

And I was feeling neglected

Oops. I just got an email from Alec letting me know that his comment on my previous post was not getting through. I checked and it seems that Spam Karma 2 had gone bad on me, and was giving errors on any submitted comments. I deactivated SK2 and reactivated Akismet, which still shows all the [...]

Update day

Its a peaceful day in the middle of my Easter break. My family has left me alone to take care of the 1001 projects that I need to get done, along with some house work. Is there a better time to update WordPress to version 2.0.2 and play around with some new plugins? I think [...]

K2 released for WordPress 2

A great way to get developers to release an upgrade is for me to install it. I just downloaded and installed this and … the site looks just the same! I don’t even see any difference on the administration side of things. But nothing seems broken, so I think I’ll keep it ;^) K2 at [...]

Upgrade done, now on to the renovations

OK – despite borking the upgrade to WordPress 2.0, I did manage to retrieve the site from the backed up database. Sorry if this upgrade has barfed my feed into your RSS aggregator. I’ll try not to repeat that.Now I need to put on a fresh coat of paint and re-theme the site. But I [...]