Having some days off of work can be beneficial. Cleaning out a draw I came across some receipts from our trip to Switzerland this past summer, and found a receipt from a restaurant that we ate at our last night in Zurich. The restaurant was in a garden, behind a hotel. It seemed that many […]
Dr. Bruce’s Awesome Grilled Salmon Here is the salmon recipe in case you want it. Dr. Bruce’s Awesome Grilled Salmon from “Feeding the Whole Family” by Cynthia Lair, ISBN 9780931055973. That is out of print, but a newer version, ISBN 0966034619, is available at Amazon. 2-3 pounds Salmon Fillet. We use king salmon, wild caught […]
A few links with some thoughtful remarks about the impact of RSS and Blogs. InfoWorld: The network is the blog: December 10, 2004: By Jon Udell : APPLICATION_DEVELOPMENT : APPLICATIONS : BUSINESS : DATA_MANAGEMENT : WEB_SERVICES The self-organizing blogosphere offers a unique way to manage the information deluge SimonWaldman.net » RSS: a shift, from what…to […]
Tagged blogs, rss“We’ll figure out how to monetize it later.” a quote by Lars Perkins, general manager for Picasa, in the article “Google units include social networking, photos, maps“, by Jefferson Graham, in USA Today, December 21, 2004, demonstrates what I really like about the Internet. First some things are created because they can be done, and […]
Tagged commercial, picasaCheck out Weather Underground: Fredericksburg, Virginia Forecast: white christmas? to read the chances of a white Christmas in Washington DC or Baltimore. The folks at Weather Underground have done a good job analyzing the statistics of past weather conditions. It seems the chances of snow on Christmas are pretty slim, but there’s always hope. Weather […]
single-serving.com phrase, trail, and travel guides What a nice site! it contains links to printable booklets of language basics for tourists in French, German, Italian, Hungarian (that’s ho I came across this site, but that’s another story), Russian, Albanian, Czech, Polish, Swedish, Spanish, Croatian, Slovene, Danish, Afrikaans, Dutch, Portuguese, and Romanian, and partial booklets for […]
Tagged language basics, TravelI just finished reading “The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World” by Michael Pollan. What an enjoyable book! Pollan’s writing is intelligent, witty, and just a pleasure to read. We correctly have the notion that we effect the plants in our environment. Not doubting that or diminishing our role in our environment, […]
We had a brief discussion about using “click here” as a hyperlink in my Internet course yesterday. The following annotated list provides guidance in creating hyperlinks: Hyperlink Issues and Design. A brief guide to creating effective hyperlinks. Writing Links That Your Readers Will Click On, Web Writing: Good Links are Crucial to Have Clear Powerful […]
Tagged hyperlink, web designGrading the take-home test from CPSC 104, The Internet: Technology, Issues & Information makes me want to write down a few things to help myself for the next time I teach the course. Emphasize the different types of writing that will have to be done. On the test students were asked to write a research […]
What Wal-Mart costs us
The New York Review of Books: Inside the Leviathan – a good article detailing many of the costs we all incur through the existence of Wal-Mart and their practices. Here are two quotes: “One of the most telling of all the criticisms of Wal-Mart is to be found in a February 2004 report by the […]