January 2008
Netscape to Die… Finally! →
Just posted an internal email about what we ought to do about the End-of-Service announcement for Netscape. Usage of Netscape browsers has plummet even as Firefox as increased. Its finally hit the floor such that even AOL has given up on it. Why did they make NN 9? A snapshot of its use relative to total hits for the past ~30.5 days at two of the sites we run: CVIEW OVIEW Browser Hits % Hits %...
Jan 1st
December 2007
Bicentennial for the Abolition of Slave Trade to... →
An Even Better Reason to Celebrate has a nice longer version of this quote from a NYT OpEd piece on tomorrow being the bicentennial for the ablution of slave trade to the United States. WE Americans live in a society awash in historical celebrations. The last few years have witnessed commemorations of the bicentennial of the Louisiana Purchase (2003) and the 60th anniversary of the end of World...
Dec 31st
Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide [del.icio.us] →
Dec 31st
Index - OpenCourseWare - Tufts University... →
Dec 31st
UC Irvine, OpenCourseWare [del.icio.us] →
Dec 31st
TEX2ALL » The Long Tail, PLE’s, VLE’s, and... →
New libel: BlackBored
Dec 31st
Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous (Jakob Nielsen's... →
Open note to Nielson: simple != usable. Static done bad != usable. web 2.0 done bad != usable. Either done well == usable.
Dec 30th
Stephen Hawking [del.icio.us] →
Dec 29th
RRRv302 REPOST: Did A Stupid Thing →
Originally posted January 15, 2004. v4 means its the fourth incarnation of this blog. This post was in v3. Thankfully, MovableType writes the content to files meaning there is a lasting archive. That reminds me… Need to put on the calendar to do regular backups of this blog. Back to the post: Did A Stupid Thing No, really stupid. About the stupidest thing I have done in years. So stupid that it...
Dec 29th
Hackers take aim at Mac OS X | InfoWorld |... →
Probably being blacklisted as never being allowed to buy a Mac just for bookmarking this…
Dec 29th
Enrollments →
In spelunking the Vista database, the main pieces of an enrollment are the user, the learning context, the membership, the role, and the role’s label. Its almost trivial how easily these tie together. Once you have them, then you can do all kinds of cool things… Administrator reports Section Designer role was deleted but the Build tab is still showing. So, you dump out the user’s enrollments to...
Dec 29th
From Amy for Christmas [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo: Polar Bear Cup - Its giant… Maybe two normal ones in volume?
Dec 29th
Everything to Everyone →
This is intended to be a more thoughtful response to Laura regarding Course Management Systems and the need for innovation.<br /><br />Currently, Course Management Systems are <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloatware”>bloatware</a>. They got this way by trying to provide everything to everyone. One instructor wants a feature, the university presses for this feature,...
Dec 28th
Honda Worldwide | Fuel Cell | FCX [del.icio.us] →
My next car?
Dec 28th
Web sites offer test answers 'cheap' - UPI.com... →
Always a worry test takers are cheating.
Dec 28th
Feng Shui Compass [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo:
Dec 28th
Feng Shui Compass [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo:
Dec 28th
Amy's Sea Shell Ornaments [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo: These hang from the orchids.
Dec 28th
Amy's Sea Shell Ornaments [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo: These hang from the orchids.
Dec 28th
Gary Voth Photography: The Forgotten Lens... →
Dec 27th
Too Much E-Mail Leaves Workers Disoriented,... →
“He estimates that such disruptions cost the U.S. economy $650 billion in 2006.”
Dec 27th
Red Tornado (Ma Hunkel) No Helmet [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo: Amy’s Christmas present from Brian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Tornado_%28Ma_Hunkel%29 of America”
Dec 26th
Red Tornado (Ma Hunkel) Helmeted [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo: Amy’s Christmas present from Brian en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Tornado_%28Ma_Hunkel%29
Dec 26th
Emergence →
Right…. Forgot there is a term for growing complexity in the Universe: Emergence
Dec 26th
Mall of Georgia 2 Days Before Christmas [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo: Busiest I’ve seen the place. I wonder how many were like me? Just there to observe the madness.
Dec 26th
Mall of Georgia 2 Days Before Christmas [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo: Busiest I’ve seen the place. I wonder how many were like me? Just there to observe the madness.
Dec 26th
An Introduction to the Semantic Web … for noobs →
Manu Sporny of Digital Bazaar just posted an entirely non-technical video explaining the Semantic Web. The video and all of its source material are available under a CC Attribution-ShareAlike license for sharing and remixing. Quote from the video: If you can open a web browser, you can understand the Semantic Web. CC has been using Semantic Web technologies for the machine-readable layer of its...
Dec 26th
Merry Christmas →
Back when I was Catholic, the two masses I enjoyed the most were Christmas and Easter. I listen to Christmas music throughout the year. Birth and death are a fascinating duality of life. A material death is simple… The Second Law of Thermodynamics represents the scattering of the particles of which we are composed. Life at one time represented an enigma to the law. Creationists sometimes use the...
Dec 26th
Sciencedebate 2008 [del.icio.us] →
Dec 25th
Man finds birth mom 22 years later at work -... →
What are the odds an adopted kid might marry an unknown sibling? This is why adopted kids ought to know who their birth parents are?
Dec 25th
say cheese →
A mother taking a photo on Yonge street, north of Queen.
Dec 25th
Power of Assumptions →
Being single, people offer up lots of places to find love offline and more frequently of late online. Almost everyone knows of the common profile browsing or question testing sites. This site scares the hell out of me…. Welcome to a new era of human relationships. We’re the only introduction service that creates matches with actual physical chemistry. Our patent-pending technology uses your DNA...
Dec 25th
MERRY CHRISTMAS [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo: Enjoy the holiday. Stuff your face. Give me your best present. :D Took this at the Mall of Georgia.
Dec 25th
Reflecting on Traffic →
Reflecting on Traffic Originally uploaded by Ezra F tag: photography
Dec 24th
Joy of Tech by - 24 December 2007 →
Dec 24th
Christmas Insanity [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo: What a mad, mad, materialistic world…. Of course, I was contributing by participating just a little.
Dec 24th
Christmas Insanity [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo: What a mad, mad, materialistic world…. Of course, I was contributing by participating just a little.
Dec 24th
Christmas Insanity [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo: What a mad, mad, materialistic world…. Of course, I was contributing by participating just a little.
Dec 24th
Christmas Insanity [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo: What a mad, mad, materialistic world…. Of course, I was contributing by participating just a little.
Dec 24th
Reflecting on Traffic [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo:
Dec 24th
Reflecting on Traffic →
Dec 24th
Christmas Back Home →
Dec 24th
Get College Credit For Being Famous Online →
It’s certainly no secret that in an age of changing business models for content creators, that understanding the nature of online marketing is important. Huge industries have grown up around online marketing, viral marketing and word of mouth marketing. But, when it gets right down to the core, it’s about figuring out ways to get attention — and it appears that one college...
Dec 22nd
The Golden Compass →
I didn’t have any interest in this book (or the His Dark Materials trilogy of which TGC is the first book) or the movie. Then I heard about Vatican objection to the movie despite the references to the Church being removed. This kind of objection made me curious. Does being an atheist make Phillip Pullman a bad person? I’d think the weight of our actions should be the measure by which we are all...
Dec 22nd
Never Go in Against a Sicilian When Death Is on... →
Much of my adolescence was spent bullying my male peers with snide remarks. While, I don’t think there is one kind of humor, I can see part of humor coming from male hormones. Creatures with horns butt heads. We human males use humor to express our dominance. The best is the sly offhand comment where the target struggles to understand but makes everyone else laugh. If this is right, then we...
Dec 22nd
Kaspersky Decides Windows Explorer Is A Virus →
You can already hear the Apple and Linux fans snickering about this one, but security software firm Kaspersky accidentally classified Windows Explorer as a virus to be quarantined earlier this week. Explorer.exe, of course, is pretty crucial for doing just about anything in Windows, so it probably didn’t go over so well with the folks impacted by it. Amusingly, as the article notes,...
Dec 21st
Odds Good That Asteroid Will Hit Mars Next Month →
75-1 may be incredibly long odds at the race track, but that’s a prohibitive favorite in astronomy. And astronomers say a newly discovered asteroid has one chance in 75 of hitting the red planet at the end of January.
Dec 21st
I’m No Sugar Daddy →
Wow…. Do people really respond to emails for web sites to arrange guys to become a “Sugar Daddy”? Do women really need a web site to find one? And what if I want to be a kept man? Is there a web site for me?
Dec 20th
Turing Digitalization →
Some 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved daily according to Luis von Ahn (on Wired Science on PBS). His project reCPATHCA will use unknown words in these challenges for solving the unknown words in digitizing books to solve these words in an a quasi-automated sort of way. I wonder though. Even if reCAPTCHA a) becomes the default at major sites like Yahoo or Google and b) is solved 100% right ever...
Dec 20th
IMG_4513 [Flickr] →
Ezra F posted a photo:
Dec 20th