cerebral odd jobs

//engtech at http://internetducttape.com/ [recommended resource] writing today at Lorelle’s place

Learning About the Web in Plain English
Having a background in computer engineering has been a great boon to me when it comes to blogging. … I have had an edge from being genuinely interested in the technology behind how things work and finding ways to get [...]

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I urge everyone new to blogging to start with the analogue blog (analog blogue?) and map out what you want to do, who’s the audience, how much work do you want to exert, etc.
Scot’s Newsletter makes a good point.
3. Don’t unsubscribe because you’re going to use the RSS feed instead. The SFNL RSS feed is [...]

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At the BlogHerald (on the list of recommended readings for new edubloggers), Lorelle VanFossen discussed Writing and Publishing Code in Your WordPress Blog Posts… Another tool, I mentioned here… Here’s the direct link to the Live Writer extensions to be able to add code to posts. It’s hard to find their stuff.

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Gizmo’s latest newsletter continues his series on portable computing security and his experience with U3 and proprietary USB program launchers. see Port-a-puter for the roadless warrior: U3 and thumbtops, portable computing and How to make a Thumbtop PC
Issue 147, 19th July, 2007

http://techsupportalert.com/issues/back_issues.htm

Editorial
Securing USB flash drives is not quite as simple [...]

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Live Writer seemed to be adding code to the earlier published post that ended up stripping the image out. So here is a test (the original post has been corrected)
 

This was developed as a central place for people (inside and outside the region) trying to plan meetings and trips. Too often meetings overlap or the [...]

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Paul Hamilton has a list of useful tools, including a link to edublogging tutorials
The bookmarks below were generated using the GreaseMonkey script from Social Bookmarking Helper 4 Wordpress.Com – A Greasemonkey Userscript July 7th, 2007 — Satya Narayan The bookmarks generated at other posts come from a modified bookmarklet from http://archaeoastronomy.wordpress.com/social-linking/
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