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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Which Literary Figures Would You Share in Your Thanksgiving Meal

Your usual, run of the mill, web question going around. Mine is quite interesting and telling about myself. Maybe it is time for that pysch exam… Lawrence Lessig, Roland Deschain (Stephen King’s Dark Tower Series), Snape, Daisy Miller (Henry James), and of course, The Mad Hatter. *image from flickr user ToxicMosaic

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Karmic Koala vs Windows 7

I upgraded to both on one machine each.  Before going into the pros and cons of each, I better tell the makeup of each machine I upgraded. Windows 7: A Dell 755 Optiplex.  Basic stock, additional media card reader, and extra RAM.  Networked.  Running XP Service Pack 3 Ubuntu 9.10: A Dell XPS 400.  Basic [...]

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Creative Commons Quarterly Rant

Once again, I found it time to bring up the Creative Commons movement. As a former educator, turned consultant, turned district director, the need for content for use by students continues to increase. With students involved in online projects, graduation projections, and other career related projects, our students continue to need content they can consume, [...]

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Gnome-Do with Docky

So you like your docks on XP/Vista and Mac OS? Well, as usually, Linux has their own that allows for a large amount of fine-tuning.  Gnome Do (http://do.davebsd.com/) is first and foremost a launcher application for Linux.  I run Gnome Do in my Ubuntu 9.04 machines, and plan to upgrade to Karmic Koala soon.  I [...]

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