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We’ll miss you … but the rockin’ post-punk, space-age, surf music of Man or … Astroman? can express that sentiment far better than I ever could!
I promised an update to the “A Bit Blue with Bluehost” article I posted last week, and I am afraid there is still very little clarification as to why [[Drupal]] and [[Typo3]] are not currently [[Fantastico]] enabled. According to the tech I spoke with this afternoon, the Drupal and Typo3 development communities need [...]
Tags for this article: general , instructional technology
[?]About two years ago I read a novella by [[Richard Matheson]] titled [[I Am Legend]] which was written in 1954. This work continues to haunt my soul quite regularly, and a quick look at the basic plot of the narrative, as quoted from wikipedia below, would make you think, “oh, wow, another post-apocalyptic vampire [...]
Tags for this article: film , I am legend , movies , night of the living dead , Omega Man , Richard Matheson , science fiction , The Last Man on Earth
[?]Update: this project has since been kyboshed, but the meat and potatoes of the Flash tutorial is still valuable.
I have talked breifly about a project I have been working on in my post “A Bit Blue with Bluehost”. And while my content management issues with Bluehost have not entirely been resolved as of yet [...]
Tags for this article: Flash , instructional technology
[?]Screenshot from the screwball comedy His Girl Friday, a film which is freely available though the Internet Archive
I watched [[His Girl Friday]] for the first time this evening and it was quite impressive -I am still recovering from the barrage of piercing dialogue shot at me, as if with a machine gun, for over an [...]
Tags for this article: Movie Lists
[?]This afternoon I have been a bit blue with bluehost. I have been ramping up for a project I will be working on over the next month, and I finally got motivated to install the Content Management Systems [[Drupal]] and [[Typo3]] (I am going to try working through both to see which one [...]
Tags for this article: bluehost
[?]Over the last couple of months I have been putting together some resources for ripping DVDs, editing the extracting files, and converting/compressing them into more globally readable formats. Negotiating the minefield of video [[codecs]] and file extensions is a complex process, and I certainly do not claim to be an expert. Yet, I [...]
Tags for this article: instructional technology , open source , web 2.0
[?]In a recent article on ZDNetUK, Sun’s Simon Phipps argued that the [[open source]] movement is premised on the capitalist ethic of self-interest. Below is an excerpt from the article quoting Phipps’ discussion of open source within a capitalist framework:
Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference, Sun Microsystems’ chief open-source officer, Simon Phipps, said [...]
Tags for this article: general , open source , web 2.0
[?]This post started out as a comment on my favorite blog these days, The Tattered Coat. Matt, the proprietor of said blog, has one of the most intelligent, entertaining, and interactive blogs going. After a long hiatus to finish his dissertation, Tattered Matt is back at it and as good as ever. Lately he [...]
Tags for this article: archive , archive.org , b-movies , BAM , barbara steele , black sunday , civil rights , david cronenberg , film , films , genre , george romero , halloween , horror , Internet Archive , john carpenter , last house on the left , mario bava , movie , Movie Lists , movies , night of the living dead , planet of the vampires , tobe hooper , video
[?]As Mikhail pointed out to me, when you have the headphones plugged in on the the MAcBook Pro in XP the built-in speakers still play sound. For a quick-fix to this problem intel has released a program that re-routes all the sound to the headphone jack. The only trade off is no [...]
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