In the process of downloading the newest version of Knoppix so that I can make Live CDs for the C&W workshop. Gonna print labels (ok, I only have 20 and I'm too cheap to buy more) and make printed envelopes for them. Then I'll have to get around to burning copies. I think that I am also going to try out Mandrake 9.1 on my laptop that is currently ( Read more... )

Sitting @ Barnes & Nobles, reading network theory, drinking a skim iced latte, and blogging. Totally connected, yet totally disconnected? What does it mean that I am surrounded by people who are doing the same thing as me (and who may have the same interests, yet none of us have spoken 2 words to each other. Is technology (or networking) actually ( Read more... )

How do I delete livelizard? It now crashes Mozilla on start up!

Jazz great Nina Simone died in her Paris home on Monday. Simone's music has long been an inspiration to me. Her raspy, beautiful voice has calmed me at times when nothing else could.

The President's Council on Bioethics has issued a reading list that "can be invaluable companions as we grapple to understand our brave new biotechnology". From the site:

Bioethics generally touches matters close to the core of our humanity: birth and death, body and mind, sickness and health, freedom and dignity are but a few. From the ( Read more... )

Created documentation of student created MOO spaces. How fun! Really it was.

I am not in the mood for playing well with others and I don't think I will be for a while!

There was a conference on Teaching and Learning With Technology on campus this week and at the keynote address one of the technology bigwigs announced that we were going to be piloting wireless mobile classrooms for all students ( Read more... )

I am experiencing real FTP weirdness at home. I have sites hosted on 2 university servers and the server that is housed in my office at work. First, I was unable to FTP to one of the servers at school, but it wasn't important stuff so I didn't worry about it much. Then last night I was unable to FTP to the server in my office which freaks me out a ( Read more... )

Ed Tech Dev blogs about a gradual switch to Open source with "some of the best free and open source applications". The apps listed include Mozilla, OpenOffice, The Gimp, XMMS (one of my favorites), MySQL, and PHP. Here's the article