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.
Month: September 2007
How to manage 60,000 digital photos
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 why don’t…
Edge Rails, OpenID and the Dreaded Sorry, the OpenID verification failed” error
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 cool technology. The combination…
Flickr as Web 2.0, bla, The Soviets were like Nuke 2.0 way back in the 70s
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 over again. There…
Why the medical industry sucks
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 hell. On…