photo: seaweed sushi pringles
My friend Joe loved his chickens, though a fox did them in this last fall. He’d planned to leave the coop empty for the winter and start fresh in the spring, but his surfing lead him to mail order chickens (adoption card pictured above).
So…what better a gift for a friend than a chicken by mail? [...]
I always get a laugh out of Cops, and an even bigger laugh out parodies of the show. So I have to thank Cliff for finding this animated video of Santa getting pulled over.
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I like Christmas as much as anybody (well, anybody who likes Christmas), but I’m a “happy holidays” guy. Why? because Christmas and the holidays aren’t about me, they’re about the way we spread happiness and joy to others, no matter how they celebrate. So while I quietly hope for my own merry Christmas, I resist [...]
I don’t work for central IT anymore, but they still invite me to their holiday party. And no office holiday party would be complete without a yankee swap. I brought a sort of crappy battery operated screwdriver that seemed to be popular (but keep in mind that we have really low standards for [...]
Zach got a call from the Serena Collage rep who rattled off this list of customers in New England:
Boston College
Northeastern
Bristol Community College
UMass Lowell
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We got the demo yesterday of Sungard/SCT’s Luminis Content Management Suite (sales video). I mentioned previously that the sales rep thinks Pima Community College and Edison College show it off well.
Here’s what we learned in the demo:
It started with the explanation that data is stored as XML, processed by JSP, and rendered to the [...]
Color me amused to learn that somebody (don’t worry, Amazon will never tell me who) bought Carmen Electra’s Aerobic Striptease after following one of my Amazon affiliate links.
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MIT has DSpace, their solution to save, share, and search the collected work of their faculty and students (in use by 115 public sites). Now Royce just shared with me this presentation by Bill Hubbard, the SHERPA project manager at University of Nottingham.
What’s SHERPA? The name is an acronym for Securing a Hybrid Environment for [...]
With 1,800 CMS vendors in the marketplace, we’re mining what we know or know-of as a way to shorten the list. Kim named the following four:
Joomla, a derivative of Mambo
Collage appears to have good content reuse features
OmniUpdate has a good list of higher ed clients
Drupal: open source and turning heads
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Ryan Eby gets excited over LiveSearch. And who can blame him? I mention the preceding because it explains the following: two links leading to some good examples of livesearch in the wild.
Inquisitor is a livesearch plugin for OS X’s Safari web browser. It gives the top few hits, spelling suggestions where appropriate, and links to [...]
Simon Mahler did the audio for Benjamin Stephan and Lutz Vogel’s Trusted Computing movie. The movie is good, but I realized I was letting it play in the background just to hear the soundtrack, so I finally looked up Mahler’s fotone.net and found the three free song downloads.
It’s good stuff, but I’m wondering where [...]
Two cops: he wanted a soda, she didn’t. She had the wheel, he had a Taser. Details from this Associated Press story:
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — A police officer has been charged with using a Taser on his partner during an argument over whether they should stop for a soft drink.
Ronald Dupuis, 32, was charged Wednesday with [...]
Thanks go to Jenny for the link to the They Might Be Giants podcast!
And all that brings up something I was too lazy to figure out before. Interestingly, it became an issue now only because I was also too lazy to look for the TMBG podcast in the iTunes podcast directory. It turned out to [...]
My Treo rocks. Part of my love for the new gadget is how I can now AIM on the run without SMS. Sure, I risk frostbitten fingers as I walk across campus and I’d probably be a lot better off if I just called the person, but…but…
Anyway, Everything Treo was near the top of my [...]
