I have mostly recovered from the great hard drive crash, thanks to Apple’s Backup software. Most music has been recovered, and I will soon be sniveling and groveling to iTMS to be allowed to re-download music that I have already paid for. Most pictures have been restored, up until I last backed up all my [...]
I never thought it could happen to me. Sure, I’d heard stories about it happening to others, and some of the stories were pretty bad. And I knew all the risks, so I guess it was my own fault. Still, we tend to think “Oh, that’ll happen to the other guy, but not me”. Well, [...]
I’ve had some requests for my admin_delete_users_bookmarks_and_tags for Scuttle that I hobbled together some time ago. After going through all the files in my scuttle installation, I realized the only hack was that I changed the function isAdmin in the services/userservice.php from this: function isAdmin($userid) { return false; //not implemented yet }to this: function isAdmin($userid) [...]
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Thanks to Alan: Hmmm – LISP is obscure, confusing enough to give the appearance of being complex, understood by very few people and used to simulate intelligence. Yep, that sounds like me! If you’ve read this, consider yourself tagged – take the quiz. Is anybody a Python? That’s what I was hoping for.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Open Thinking – a new site/community for anyone who is interested in open content, open source software, open publishing practices or open content formats – is now open. Here’s our current definition of open thinking: Open thinking is the tendency of an individual, group or institution to give preference to the adoption of open technologies [...]
As part of my M.Ed. project, I’ll be building a web site. Most sane people would do this using Dreamweaver or some similar product. I, however, am not one of those people – I prefer to create web pages by hand-coding the HTML and CSS files. I suppose if I wanted to be uber-geeky about [...]
As if I didn’t have enough to do, I’ve just started a new podcast with teacher-librarian extraordinaire Donna DesRoches (I’d link but her blog is quite torpid – get writing, Donna, and I’ll put in a link). It is called Ten Things To Know, or T3K, as I like to refer to it. Each episode [...]
Monday, September 18, 2006
After a long and rejuvenating summer break, the EdTech Posse is back with some new podcasts. In our first podcast of the new season, Rick and I talk with brand new Posse deputy Heather Ross about open source in education. EdTech Posse 2.1 – Open Source in Education
Saturday, September 2, 2006
I just read about this via Dean: K12 Online 2006 Conference… Announcing the first annual “K12 Online 2006? convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, Oct. 23-27 and Oct. [...]
This is just a quickie braindump post so I have some notes on a bit of tweaking I just did on the school’s installation of Scuttle, an open-source social bookmarking tool similar to del.icio.us. The problem we were running into was a lack of administrative control to get rid of undesirable (spam) links in the [...]