I was remembering my early introduction to the world of Sci-fi short stories, grabbing my dad’s back issue of Analog magazine. It just doesn’t seem like there are many outlets these days for authors of short stories to get their stuff read — that is unless they provide the readings themselves and post the audio files:
I’m still too much of a PHP newbie to be able to offer any technological opinion on its inherent security, but it is a concern for me. This post is part of an ongoing discussion on the topic and makes some excellent points as well as providing links to other PHP-releated blog posts:
Readers of this blog know that I am a very enthusiastic Firefox user. But I’ve also experienced some issue with the latest version freezing and other funky stuff. This recent article from Information Week at least confirms that I’m not crazy:
I’ve been fooling with the Recent Keywords listing on the right sidebar. I had it working pretty well a couple of month ago, but lately it seems to falling asleep. I’ve re-set it so that it is pulling its info from this Blog’ RSS, my Flickr feed’s RSS, and two keyword subscriptions (one on PHP, one on Banjo) run through PubSub. The PubSub tool allows you to set up a search on keywords and then monitor it via an RSS feed. And then TagCloud analyzes all those and pulls out the keywords. In principle it sounds good, now lets see if I can get it producing something useful! Web 2.0 — its cool when it works!
Wouldn’t it be cool to have a history class where the student projects were to reenact historical scenes from the era of study as machinima movies. They’d probably find it move engaging than the typical powerpoint presentation, as would their classmates. The idea of creating movies through game-engines sounds much more promising to me as an educational tool than most of what I’ve heard coming out of the educational area lately…
Patrick has a new podcasting series of daily banjo workshops and daily folk songs. If you play guitar, banjo, like singing folk music, or just wish you could do one of these things you gotta check this out:
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