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Tweets
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 2 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 2 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 2 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 2 days ago
- Word or two length predictions for social media game-changers over next decade? Me: Goggles, Badges, Social Sensors #gamechangers 2 days ago
- One more on the "higher ed is newspapers" meme. David Brooks: http://t.co/bUsz8sXA 2 days ago
- My students know I am not a fan of Flash. Rare exception: http://t.co/1ElX1Q8E 2 days ago
- More updates...
Archives
Monthly Archives: October 2002
Friday Five
Since I haven’t had much to say this week (too busy), I’ll go for another Friday Five: 1. What is your favorite scary movie? I’m not a huge fan of what many people consider scary. It has to be at least partially believable for me to find it frightening, which means it is often those [...]
Language & Encoding
Who knew events like this happened in Buffalo? “Language & Encoding: A Symposium for Artists, Programmers, & Scholars.” Looks like fun!
Uzilla
A study will attempt to describe “A Day in the Life” of the web browser, using a set of instrumented Mozilla browsers. They will aparently make the data available to researchers. This is something we had considered for doing job search research. However, the >$2000 annual license is enough to scare folks away. They offer [...]
Head-Banging Bugs
So, I wanted to work on Julia’s sampling problem and, at the same time, try to add some functionality to iCrawl, by making better use of the HTML parser included in the standard library for python. For even a slightly experienced programmer, this would be child’s play, methinks. But since I have never adequately grasped [...]
Snowy Buffalo
Since everyone I talk to wants to know about the weather in Buffalo, I decided to add a local weather report, updated every couple of hours (look to the left). Unfortunately, it seems to slow the load time, so I might take it back down, or rework it so that it doesn’t need to think [...]
More Scripts Online
Slowly bringing over all the scripts I had up on the old server. I have put up the I++ Ching 404 Page, as well as the long-awaited new appointment sign-ups. I should be able to finish off my backlog of emails by tomorrow morning. Hooray! On the down-side, it turns out Slashdot has changed the [...]
I am an electrophobic stegasaurus