BBC NEWS | Technology | Teen craze over networking sites—darn those crazy teens. Apparently the UK version of MySpace or Facebook, Bebo faces the same challenges from schools and colleges that worry the site is potentially dangerous for students. The…
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For Mac: Mac OS X application folders – Lifehacker
Download of the Day: Mac OS X application folders – Lifehacker—cool folders for that new Mac I am going to buy one day.
CCCC 2006: It’s all over
I managed to get the rest of my stuff packed up and wrangle it out of my room by about 10:30 this morning, a full 30 minutes before I had to :) Unlike my messy navigation to Chicago on Tuesday,…
CCCC: Day Four
It’s the last day, so that means that the first thing I had to do today was get down to the Exhibit Hall to snatch up the goodies that the publishers are now happily giving away. I got a copy…
CCCC 2006: Day Three
It’s been an oddly hard day. I feel so disconnected from the CCCC world. Maybe it’s just that all my work is K–12. Maybe it’s that I’ve not been here in so long. I dunno. I went to a Computer…
Windows: Color Cop
Download of the Day: Color Cop – Lifehacker—cool tool that lets you sample nearly anything. Use the dropper to grab colors off the desktop, open browser windows, and many applications. It gives you both hex and rgb. It wouldn’t let…
In the News: Increase your creativity: slack off – Lifehacker
The strategy for my life finally has an explanation! Increase your creativity: slack off – Lifehacker points to a Fortune story that explains, “People may do their best thinking when they are not concentrating on work at all.” I’m not…
CCCC 2006: Day Two
I had some crazy dreams during that sleepathon. I was in some crazy house, which I had apparently purchased, and my sister Holli was there helping me. The strangest thing was that the porch was pushing back into the house,…
Musings
There is clearly something very pathetic about coming to CCCC and staying in my room, going to bed before 9, and then getting up at 12:30 am and watching DVDs while I write. My brain is clearly fried or pickled…
CCCC 2006: Day Minus One and Counting
So I managed to get to the Palmer House after a minor driving error that took me through downtown Chicago at 5 PM. Note to self: do not arrive in Chicago at 5 PM again. Second note to self: Pay…