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Less is more
In: blogging
23 Jul 2008As much as I enjoy playing with puters and stuff, sometimes I just want it to be easy — easy enough that anybody could do whatever. Say, upgrade a website.
There was quite a bit of Twitter chat a few days ago about the pain people were experiencing upgrading Wordpress to version 2.6. Little problems like completely broken and inaccesible sites with no admin access or hope of repairing things. Well, dear non-readers, you know this site is not exactly mission-critical (even if I had a mission nothing about this would be critical)…However, I didn’t want to break it just the same, so held off the upgrade.
But, you see, I have this shiny new iPhone, and somebody said the Wordpress app was cool. Well I tried it, only to discover — you guessed it — it needed Wordpress to be at a later version…Ok, you got me, time to jump in and upgrade. So I head off to my DreamHost admin panel and six clicks later I’m upgraded and running. That’s it.
Next, to the iPhone, enter the site details, write this post. That’s it.
I love it when puters actually do what they are supposed to — make things easier. All by getting out of the way, working, and being simple.
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Daily Twitter Digest for 2008-04-20
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20 Apr 2008- Reading: From Where I Sit: How Not to Use PowerPoint: [link] [more] http://tinyurl.com/youwld #
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Daily Twitter Digest for 2008-03-21
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21 Mar 2008- Carn the doggies! #
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Daily Twitter Digest for 2007-11-18
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18 Nov 2007- Maintenance: upgrading wordpress #
- Tweaking the setup for twittering to my blog #
- Reading: From Where I Sit: How Not to Use PowerPoint: [link] [more] http://tinyurl.com/youwld #
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200 grunts
In: general
16 Oct 2007I arrive at the dentist. The receptionist looks up, “can I help you, sir?”
“I’m here for my appointment with Dr Gordon”.
“Thanks, just take a seat”.
Thirty minutes later, I come back to the same receptionist, and she looks at me with the same “can I help you?” face.
“Mm usss inish ish octa awden….oo i nee oo oo emythim?”
She replies, “Did he ask you to make another appointment?”
“Mm, ee mm mmm ay emy bow tha, o mm, u mo. U ee i se mm mmy eed awe un ata.”
“Oh, okay, well that would need an hour-long appointment, and so that probably won’t be until February”
“Mmmay, ll i us mee oo ch…ow owt mmti mm arch?”
“Sure, the 15th?”
“Mm, err, oo, mmay, ood e fi”
“See you then.”
“Oo oo”
Supposedly we only need about 200 words in any language to carry on a conversaton — what are the 200 basic grunts required at the dentist’s reception desk?
Self-Healing Internet
In: web
23 Jun 2007I love the fact that the best source of answers to internet-related problems is the internet itself. If that seems like an obvious statement, just think about it a bit longer…can other things tell you how to fix themselves? Does you car or your microwave or your lawnmower or your dog allow you to find a solution internally and then apply that solution to effect a repair?
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The Real Me
In: web
23 Jun 2007I’ve noticed that a lot of my jaiku and twitter presence posts are about coffee, wine and beer — and that could be misleading. My “presence” is not who I am, rather it only reflects a small part of me and my life.
You see, it’s all about when I post presence updates. Usually, it’s when I take a break and I’m waiting on the barista or the coffee pot. Or, it’s when I get a moment to sit down and relax at night. So my presence posts often come from those moments. But as more and more of me gets scattered across the internet, it would be easy to assume that a more complete picture of me is developing for all to see. Certainly, small things about me are revealed — but do not take them to be all there is to me.
Truth is, much of the real me — what I do, what I achieve, what I think about — is not “present” on the internet at all. That’s because the real me is what I do between “presence” posts.
Blogs, Wikis and Webquests
In: education
8 Nov 2004This article at WebQuests.org summarises some of the pedagogical uses of blogs and wikis, including how they might be used in webquests. What’s a webquest? Look around the WebQuests site to find out…
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Online Professional pres
In: general
8 Nov 2004For those who are looking for the link for my presentation of 3 November 2004, you should go here.
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Steve Murphy is an Australian film sound professional with more than 25 years experience. Currently Steve works as a teacher and consultant, drawing on his unique blend of technical and creative skills. Steve is a lifelong learner and is undertaking doctoral studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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