Re: LibraryThing, I Think I Love You!

It’s just a wild and an untamed thing …. –Rocky Horror Picture Show
Back in the Really Olde Days when I was but a wee nipper, our high school biology teacher had us do an interesting exercise. We were to pretend that we were stranded astronauts trying to make it back to our base. He [...]

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Re: This and That

It’s amazing what you can learn surfing around the Net. New words for me:

Tumblelog–basically a blog that is more like a scrapbook than a journal. You can create one with software like Tumblr.
Chimping–showing people the cool new digital photos you just took while going “Oooo! Oooo!” Used by Scott Kelby in The Digital Photography Book. [...]

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Re: My first digital photos

My colleague, Peg, is a bad influence enabler constant source of inspiration to me. Peg has gotten into digital photography and kindly lent me one of her digital cameras when she when she went off on vacation. Before leaving, she pointed out that the camera only had memory for 647 photos. Did I think that [...]

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Re: Use the Force, Luke.

I did manage to log into UA Portal finally and had a look around. Not bad, really, but it struck me as a lot of duplication of effort. Even if I could check my e-mail from there (I can’t and I don’t care to find out why–that’s kind of like asking why Darth Vader always [...]

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Re: Say It With Zombies.

How can you possibly go wrong spelling things out with zombies, I always say? I was hoping to be able to show the actual zombiebet, but it appears that WordPress doesn’t want to display the generator HTML as anything but HTML. Vexing, but not worth losing keystrokes over.
I haven’t forgotten or bypassed the topic of [...]

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Re: Gonna scream like a Nazgul

I hate My UA Portal. I hate it for the same reason I hate everything else that issues forth from the Black Gate of Mordor Statewide: it’s far too difficult to sign on in order to perform a simple function. Whenever there’s a detailed FAQ for login problems that means that the design of the [...]

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Re: Technology? What’s it good for?

I wanna roll with the gangstas, but I’m afraid that I’m just too white and nerdy ….
–”White and Nerdy”, Weird Al Yankovic
Okay, true confession time: when the day comes when we can plug our brains directly into the Net, I will be one of the first in line to get the implant. Not for any [...]

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Tick tech toe

Checked out the tech news web sites suggested for this lesson. The BBC Technology page is the only one I would consider checking out on a regular basis. However, in the course of web surfing, I came across the following entertaining stories:
From the Dept. of Klutziness, further proof that you can give people impossibly hip [...]

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