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Forget two-point-oh, the web is turning two-oh (that’s twenty) in just over a month. Please join the celebration.

So what is it I do anyway? Lots of different things. For example: Today I’m leading a faculty workshop on Firefox 3.5, so here’s a mix of awesome cyber-geeky pop tunes. And here’s sneak peek at the slideshow I’ll be using. (I’m still working on this so it may be a little unfinished in places.) [...]

I’ve been playing around with a relatively new music-sharing website called 8tracks. It allows you to create and share playlists legally. Here’s a silly little playlist I uploaded this morning: Using their nifty new Mac app I was able to upload this playlist directly from iTunes. It contains eight songs — one for each day [...]

Something tells me this list shouldn’t be posted in the clear.

If you’ve got the skillz, the University is hiring a web developer. I will offer friendly harassment to anyone who takes this job. The Office of Technology Administration at Xavier University of Louisiana is seeking a Web Developer who will be responsible for implementing and maintaining Web and Internet/Intranet applications for the University. The web [...]

On Thursday I got a phone call I’d kind of been expecting, but which still caught me by surprise. It was the VP of IT at the University, asking if I wanted to be the webmaster. See, I’d figured they’d offer me the job when PJ decided he wasn’t coming back. It’s a small campus, [...]

For some mysterious reason that I can’t explain, I felt compelled to do a Web search on the word “trinary” this morning, and discovered this recent research which indicates that the human brain computes in trinary, not binary. The story appears to have been published a mere twenty days ago. What are the chances?

So for lunch I’m enjoying some Sunsweet Gold Label Orange Essence Dried Plums, and once again my attention is diverted by some text on the back of the package, just like a couple weeks ago. Only this time, I notice a different blurb: Sunsweet Dried Plums are so nutritious, people send us amazing testimonials! Read [...]

Reading the promotional text on the back of my Sunsweet Gold Label Cherry Essence Dried Plums led me to the Nutrition Density Index. Basically it’s just a big image which looks a lot like the back of the fruit package which led me there in the first place. No new information. It’s one of the [...]

The shrook.com website has been down since July 4th and it’s really chapping my ass. See, my favorite news aggregator, Shrook, uses shrook.com for distributed checking of all the sites I read. Distibuted checking is cool; it appeals to my notions of a good cyber-ecology. Sure, I could run Shrook without using shrook.com, but that [...]