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Travelogue Slacker

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Yes, okay, so I am a slacker. I am trying to catch up. See, here’s the
problem. I truly believe in a process-based approach to writing, for
everyone except me. My writing is supposed to be complete and perfect
before anyone reads it. So, in tengrrl world, all the travelogues need to
be perfect and up to date before I share them.

Dr. Cheryl Ball, gizmologist from Utah State Universe, says the following
in response, reformatted as a list of ten:

  1. Just post the damned thing.
  2. You are denying your public. We are hungry for your words.
  3. No one really cares that it’s a week late.
  4. You’re pissing me off. Now go away so I can get work done.
  5. Really.
  6. Quit your needy shit and get out of here.
  7. Look, bitch, I’m busy. Publish the damned thing.
  8. If you don’t move along soon, I’m calling the cops.
  9. Woman, you have about three more seconds before I call Alex.
  10. Gizmo! Attack!

Based on this interaction, I was compelled to publish my travelogue
from the first day of CIWIC today. It’s okay. They tell me that they can get the blood off the keyboard, and I’ll only need a small transfusion. As if the pain of backdating things isn’t enough. Damn that vole killer.


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Job Search List of Ten

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Today at CIWIC, I participated with Cheryl Ball and Barclay Barrios in a roundtable on the job search. As I am known to do, I panicked that I wouldn’t have anything to say, so I created a List of Ten Job Search Tips. It’s not your usual list, but it’s well illustrated. I need to integrate it with the larger lists page, but for now the PDF is available. Cheryl is planning to share it at C&W 2005 in Stanford, so my baby pictures will be widely published before the month is out.


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C&W Online Presentation

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Finally finished posting (e.g., gave up on) my Computers and Writing Online 2005 presentation, “From Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine to The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez.” It turns out that I made some major mistakes in preparing for the presentation—like not bringing any of the picture books with me. They are really important to establish some of the points, and I didn’t have them on hand as I was writing.

Another problem is that I just didn’t have time to do what I wanted to with social communication in these books. So many are now including e-mails, IMs, blogs. It’s a topic that I really want to explore in depth, but I ended up just giving up. There wasn’t time to go into the detail that I wanted to, so I decided it would wait for the future. I need to get the reviews on all of the books up to begin with I think. After that, I can go back and rewrite that section of the presentation. For now, this has to be good enough.


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Gallery

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A friend mentioned Gallery, a PHP-driven image album. Only took a few minutes to get it downloaded and installed. I’ve probably spent more time fiddling with settings and how I want my albums arranged.

I’m guessing it may come in handy for arranging and sharing images. In fact, I already sent my family the URL for the Daisi photos. Daisi gets around almost as much as Duck.

To be honest, the shared albums are a by-product. For me, the real benefit of this program is that I can find images more quickly. When I need a picture, it should be much easier to find this way—especially when compared to my old way of quitting pine, changing to the right directory, searching for what I think the file is named, testing it in the browser, and then repeating the search about 6 times before I find what I’m looking for. Online albums should be MUCH easier. And since you can hide albums and images, I can post various things that I use internally (e.g., wallpaper jpgs) so that they’re much easier for me to find later.

Overall, it seems like a very nice piece of Open Source software. I’m glad I happened upon it.


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