Robert Denton

Staggering work of genius from Portland, Maine – Gardener, Photographer, Designer, Taco Maker, Birder, Biker, Wine Merchant

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Free, as in video (MSNBC vs. CNN)

Monday, May 16th, 2005

My Way News CNN.com will make its existing online video offerings available for free beginning June 20 as it prepares a new video package that will cost money to watch. CNN is redesigning its home page to prominently feature the free video, which currently can be found by clicking on small links marked “video.” Yeah […]

Playing with the template

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

I haven’t really ever dug into the wordpress templates… mostly because it required time and wading through someone else’s script. MovableType has a very good data dictionary of sorts and I’ve wrangled the tags and plug-ins beyond what they ought to be in some cases. WordPress seems delightful but it has always left me with […]

Well this is crazy

Sunday, May 1st, 2005

I had a message here about upgrading WP, broken templates, blah blah… Now I’ll provide pointers to other places: ERD blog, DAM site, BaseCamp ERD Projects (nascent). Cheers… until I get time my canned templates will remain broken and un-customized for this scratch pad.

Spammers — FOB OFF!!!

Tuesday, April 12th, 2005

Some recent spam attempts on this web site: BuckHouston.com, party poker, texas hold-em, all you farkers can go back to farkerville where you came from… 139.184.48.55 – – [12/Apr/2005:05:24:22 -0400] “GET /blog/archives/2002/02/will.shtml HTTP/1.0” 200 5224 “http://www.buckhouston.com/pacific-poker.html” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)” 146.191.34.92 – – [12/Apr/2005:05:47:57 -0400] “GET /netscape7divoutline.html HTTP/1.1” 200 8037 “http://www.queryguild.com/party-poker.html” “Mozilla/4.0 […]

e-Learning Focus, SchoolTool, calendards…

Monday, April 11th, 2005

JISC e-Learning Focus – Can web service technology really help enable %u2019coherent diversity%u2019 in e-learning? Scott Wilson explores technology and pedagogy and suggests that a service oriented approach to system design could lead to greater pedagogic diversity Tom Hoffman manages the SchoolTool project. Tom keeps an interesting list of thoughts in his weblog… Calendar:CalDAV Roadmap […]

Note to Apple, or, the Trouble with QuickTime

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

Apple – QuickTime – Tools & Tips I have used QuickTime since the dawn of postage stamp media dropped jaws. Apple has steadily improved and expanded the container that is QuickTime. Apple has always ignored the fact that good documentation and tools fosters development. Well, seemingly… here we are in 2005 and they post a […]

fyi

Saturday, March 26th, 2005

Nuno’s Thoughts: That J2EE versus .NET thing Dear old Forrester Research has recently published some interesting survey results on J2EE and .NET uptake. Acording to Forrester (you need a guest account to download the article, or otherwise just use BugMeNot) financial institutions in Europe have been clearly (56%) preferring J2EE over .NET – with a […]

The Bowdoin web site and search engines, SEO case study

Saturday, March 19th, 2005

Build Web Pages for Search Engines (Bowdoin) I quickly outline what a good web page built for search engines is about. Visit most pages on the web site to find out, especially in the News section. Building a high result web page is not difficult. You can not however obtain search results for content that […]

VR Tools

Monday, March 14th, 2005

VRMAG – DANISH ROYAL WEDDING SHOT BY HANS NYBERG Hans Nyberg of panoramas.dk [ed. and http://qtvr.dk/index_en.html] was chosen to capture the recent Danish Royal Wedding and is likely the first panoramic photographer to be hired for such an event. Hans was hired by the national Danish Radio and Television based upon his website panos and […]

Bill wakes up

Wednesday, March 9th, 2005

Microsoft to Debut Real-Time Tools “You could say it’s one of the big frontiers that Office is moving ahead on,” he said. Wow. AOL 1.0 comes to Microsoft. OK that is a stretch but what makes this a frontier? This “real time collaboration” has been happening with common internet tools for over a decade. Arguably […]