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Bluebonnets in the Snow in the Texas Hill Country
Ok, so it is not what I usually blog about, but I had an interesting adventure this last weekend, and I want to share it.
My wife, my 80 year old Mother, and myself, all decided on the spur of the moment to head for the Texas hill country for a couple of spring days [...]
Life long learner…
I suppose that more than anything, I am interested in life-long learning, with the emphasis on “life-long”. I am convinced that the internet has learning potential at every stage of life. This nice little “you-tube” foray proves my point. Age may have only a small part to play in whether [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )I violated the copyright law.
Last Saturday was my Grandson’s first birthday. He seems to have a budding interest in superheros who can fly through the air, so we hosted a Superm** party for him and 7 of his young friends. In order to make this a memorable event (Ok, memories in the parents, probably not the [...]
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The Ecstasy of Influence (Harpers.org)
The idea that culture can be property—intellectual property—is used to justify everything from attempts to force the Girl Scouts to pay royalties for singing songs around campfires to the infringement suit brought by the estate of Margaret Mitchell against the publishers of Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone. Corporations like Celera [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Slide show tool, Part II
Just to make sure that you saw this, I got a comment on the last post about the “Slide Show Tool” from the folks at Zoho who make the tool available. It’s interesting in that it was posted as a comment to let me know why the tool wasnt working. Apparently I tried [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Slide show tool
Spent a bit of time tonight playing with Zoho Slideshow. I thought I could embed it here and have it show on the front page, but when all was said and done, I think I prefer the way the slideshow looks as a link instead. I like the way it opens into a [...]
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Listen here.
So I stumbed across this funky service from Swedish Radio, that lets you post a few words in a small Java window, and in a few minutes, they take each word, run it through their musical database and spit it back to you in bits of music. The quality stinks and it would [...]
Doing it the “wrong” way…
Leave it to me to do things in a slightly different manner. I know the task here was to set up a “WordPress” blog, and I have done this. But I already have a half dozen blogs that I periodically comment in. I guess it is one of my complaints about using [...]
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