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A random collection of rants, reviews, and miscellaneous thoughts on everything from instructional technology to local restaurants.
Flickr’s Trojan Gift
Huge changes at Flickr – some excellent, some not so good, and some downright deceitful. Right now I’m still processing how I feel about all this, but here are some of my initial thoughts… Layout At first glance I really like it. It looks clean and professional, and highlights the photography in a very flattering [...]
Posted in Internet, Photography
Street View Time Lapse
I’ve been enjoying creating time-lapse videos while driving. Unfortunately, I’ve just been driving back and forth to work or rehearsal, so the scenery doesn’t change much. So while I was looking at Google Earth the other day it occurred to me – I could use the images from Street View to create the same type [...]
Posted in Geocaching and Maps, Internet, Photography, Weirdness
Blog Round-Up
The Death of Blogging has been touted for years now. Even the term “micro-blogging” for services such as Twitter has fallen out of favor, being replaced by “social media” and the like. Therefore, it’s very encouraging when I come across new blogs that have lots of potential. Some of these have been around and I’ve [...]
Posted in Internet
Going Google
We’ve done it. This week I flipped the switch to transition our school district to Google Apps, with GMail as our primary e-mail system. We had been a Novell/Groupwise shop every since I’ve been in the district. Novell had been a reliable, rock-solid product. However, their latest version was on a linux-based platform, and it [...]
Research Tools in Google Docs
I really miss Google Notebook. Combined with the Firefox plugin, it was one of the most useful tools for online research. I was very disappointed when Google decided to discontinue the service. At least they copied all of my notes into my Google Docs account when they ended the service. So, I’ve been trying to [...]
