Entries from September 2007

Have 51weeks feedback?

September 26th, 2007 18 Comments

This morning at the Open Education 2007 conference David Wiley announced our new conference application 51weeks. I wrote the code so if you have any feedback or run into problems feel free to post comments here and we’ll get right on it.

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How to manage 60,000 digital photos

September 24th, 2007 8 Comments

QUICK UPDATE: If you want reliable backups for you photos check out my post on using S3.
A friend of mine was surprised that I don’t have a Flickr account. I am try to keep up with the cool kids and keep accounts on many of the so called web 2.0 services. So [...]

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Flickr as Web 2.0, bla, The Soviets were like Nuke 2.0 way back in the 70s

September 17th, 2007 1 Comment

I watched Dr Strangelove late at night a couple of weeks ago. It is dark humor and a movie in classical Kubrick style. The irony in the movie has so much to teach modern society. In a sick twist of fiction meeting fact we have to learn to love the bomb all [...]

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Edge Rails, OpenID and the Dreaded Sorry, the OpenID verification failed” error

September 17th, 2007 7 Comments

We use Edge Rails in our projects. Call me stupid if you like, I like living on the edge (get it?). This desire to push our luck has bitten us a couple of times, but not in any serious way. Not until recently anyway. We use OpenID - another brand new [...]

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Why the medical industry sucks

September 12th, 2007 2 Comments

There is no doubt in my mind that the practitioners in the world of medicine really want to help. At least all the doctors and nurses I have run into have been kind and helpful. However, as I sit here tonight I have 7 probes attached to my body and they itch like [...]

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