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Google Sites Wiki Feb. 28th, 2008 @ 05:51 pm
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There are a number of you who may be interested in this. Google Sites now has a Wiki option that should be just about perfect for a number of projects I know people are working on.

Short review in Wired.

Political matching quiz Jan. 7th, 2008 @ 04:20 pm
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Nothing surprising there.

Jan. 2nd, 2008 @ 01:47 pm
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From What Privileges Do You Have?, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright.

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ETA: This appears to be modified from the original used in this class. Appears to have been modified so that we all are thinking back to where we were at the beginning of college, ie when we were 18.

Dec. 19th, 2007 @ 04:49 pm
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Take a look here, a friend of mine needs more comments on this entry for a Mystery Dinner.

Sep. 29th, 2006 @ 12:19 am
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Even though I have more time now, I've fallen behind on reading dailyish stuff. Like a list game some of my friends are running (some 260 conversations in Gmail, not messages, conversations), IN SSO I can't remember where I left off and am now debating restarting at the beginning or picking up about where I left off (somewhere during the prep for the Marches expiedition), most of my comics and several of the HP fanfics I have read most of I've missed the last chunk (LARGE chunk) of chapters on (at least I caught up on one of those recently).
Other entries
» Lightning Field
In Nomine people on this list would be interested in this sculpture in New Mexico.

It's called The Lightning Field (official site), and here's a link to a google images search that has a few more, actually interesting, photos on it. It's a large field with a grid of 400 lightning rods. It's in one of the areas of the country with the highest rate of lightning strikes.

Sadly there are very few good photos of it out there as the owners have a wrong headed and obstructionist view of copyright. Your sculpture is copyrighted. No one else can create a sculpture just like it. This does not prevent others from taking pictures of it. Any pictures taken of it are copyright to the photographer, not you. I assume it's on private property and therefore you can set whatever rules about photography you wish, but don't try and claim it's because of copyright. I won't let this degenerate into more of a rant on the current state of copyright.
Sep. 28th, 2006 @ 11:46 am
» Happy Birthdays!
This is two days late for most of you (including me) but we were at my parents with *shudder* dialup connection to the net. So happy birthday Imagechadu, Imagelittle_walnut, Imagehercircumstance and I think I may be forgetting one or two others on LJ.

Imageedg or am I just really confused.
Aug. 21st, 2006 @ 11:08 am
» If I had an extra couple of grand and was building a house
These people would so be getting a call from me if I had a basically unlimited budget while building a house. Make sure to look at the animations section.
Apr. 19th, 2006 @ 03:12 pm
» For the language geeks out there
For those interested in languages on my friends list, of which I know there are more than a few. Here's a website I heard about while at ALA:
Ethnologue. It lists where languages are, how many speakers there are, what family that language falls in, etc. Along with some nice maps. All freely available on line.
Jan. 25th, 2006 @ 03:52 pm
» Minor dilemma
So I have a minor dilemma. I have a fun, non-work related database project (yes I know, how absolutely completely geeky, and it's worse, it's RPG related) that I was thinking if using to learn OpenOffice.org Base. However, the tutorials linked from their site are either for 1.x (and there were MAJOR changes between 1.x and 2.0) or cover nothing more complex than what a dying lethargic hamster could figure out on its own. The help files are ok at answering basic questions but not telling me how to do things. All the online searching I've done has turned up stuff on 1.x, similarly idiotic 'tutorials' or "OOo 2.0 is out and it includes Base!" And none of those things cover any of the errors I've been getting. Now the dilemma is that I know how to do most of what I to do in Microsoft Access, I only know this because I took a class in it a couple of years ago. So I could just go do it in Access... So do I keep pounding away and try to learn how do this stuff in Open Office (this would probably involve learning at least some SQL, not a bad thing, but a time consuming thing) or do I bite the bullet and go back to using the evil program?
Jan. 17th, 2006 @ 08:14 pm
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