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Whooda thunkit: Matt L. at BFOP has finally stepped into the arena of “Educational Politics and Rhetoric,” or Sniping at Bush on The Subject of Education, or, in you prefer a teaser of what lurks at Matt’s site: I wonder what those liberal children might ask if they pooled their lunch money for a handshake’s worth of . . . → Read More: Education the Bush & Co. Way I’ve rewritten my XML-RPC library for Scheme; it was showing it’s age. More importantly, it had two big problems: A hand-rolled parser, and There are lots of other issues (documentation, robustness in the face of errors, etc.) which I’ll address with this rewrite as well. It looks like I just cut the code . . . → Read More: XchemeRPC v2.0 coming soon! I’m including this article, titled Greenspan’s Folly, and our Dual Addiction to Consumption and Debt from Dave Pollard’s weblog How to Save the World. Any further distribution of Dave’s content must likewise adhere to the Creative Commons license under which the original post was made. Alan Greenspan, long-time apologist for corporatist interests and . . . → Read More: Greenspan’s Folly In thinking about distance ed, and trying to solve some practical problems regarding communication and collaboration while using BlueJ at the UKC, we (Ian and I) realized that we had a reasonably interesting BlogTalk 2.0 presentation. So, we dropped a proposal into the email, and we’ll see what happens! The goal of the work described . . . → Read More: Talking while coding while learning to program Holly has discovered the personal data warehousing problem: As an MA candidate merely working on one paper for one course, the digital packrat’s nest that has become this project’s home on my hard drive makes me wonder how generations of PhD candidates were able to slog through the stacks of notecards that must have littered their tiny grad-student hovels from wall to wall, . . . → Read More: EndNote vs. Index cards http://www.bloglines.com/ is a web based newsreader. With it, you can subscribe to the machine-readable newsfeed generated by sites like this one (see the little orange “XML” button over there?). As a result, you have one webpage to visit, which tells which of all the weblogs you’re interested in have updated. Quickly. Simply. And, you can save posts . . . → Read More: Bloglines is an excellent newsreader Two fun things to do when you are bored to the point of tears: Fun with tinyurl.com TinyURL is a great service. You paste in a long URL, and it becomes short. For example, the URL for my GoogleImageWhacking post is http://www.cs-ed.org/blogs/mjadud/archives/000373.html#373 That’s pretty long; almost too long to mail people, too long to retype. So, I go to TinyURL.com, . . . → Read More: TinyURL and Hotmail accounts Googlewhacks were popular a few years back. The next step: Googlewhacking the Google Image Search. For example: Busty Fish Whacky Kitten The game? Come up with a two word Google Image search that returns only one picture. Include that image on your webpage, renaming it with the two words you used to find it (both of which must be real . . . → Read More: GoogleImageWhacks! Hitachi (who merged their harddrive business with IBM a while ago) announced a new 400GB, 3.5″ drive. The previous heavyweight was around 300GB, so this isn’t a huge leap, but it’s still something. So, I thought to myself: how would you archive that drive? You know, back it up? Travan makes DAT (digital analog tape) drives. Their largest . . . → Read More: When backup fails. |
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