Feel like I have been saying goodbye to a good part of my childhood/young adulthood lately. RIP – John Hughes.
Author: ajwms
Happy 3rd Birthday to Techy-Feely!!
In some ways it seems like a much longer time has passed since I blogged for the first time here at my own little corner o’ the Intarwebs! And, in other ways, I still feel like I am just figuring stuff out. I certainly am on other parts of the web. But, I clearly recall…
Where were you forty years ago?
I am a space fan, I am the first to admit. I almost have to be, don’t I? Can you claim the word “techy” and not have at least some passing interesting in space and space travel? Besides the requisite Star Wars and Star Trek fandom, I am also a big fan of NASA program…
Worldwide Photowalk – 30,000 folks taking pictures all over the place
Just back from the downtown event that was part of the Worldwide Photowalk. Over 900 cities hosted their own event where photo-oriented folks gathered together to walk around and take pictures of what they saw. Reminded me of my Project365 days. So, about 25 of so of us tromped around the Old City, downtown, Market…
A fifth of the new words included in the Merriam-Webster dictionary are technology related
Looking over the 100 new works that have been added to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary this week, I found it interesting that about 20 or so are related to some kind of technology. So, you can now peruse the dictionary and find the official definitions of such words are (with my short definitions after): Vlog:…
RIP – Michael Jackson
I am so saddened to lose on of my truly major icons yesterday. I am not sure icon is the right word but hero is not right either. I didn’t want to be Michael Jackson but I did want to marry him at one point. When I was about 12. Then, after reading the biography…
Wordle – Beautiful way to share tags
A colleague reminded me of Wordle. I truly find it beautiful. Both in the elegance that the Java app works (cannot say that about all java apps!) and in the actual creation of the tool. So, without further ado, here is my Wordle based on current tags in my delicious account!
A Magic Number – Schoolhouse Rock
I was at an ed tech conference this past week. At lunch, they had “edutainment” speakers, which is a great idea since everybody is usually eating and so on so a “serious” speaker is often not the best idea. The speakers were the producers and original composers of Schoolhouse Rock. When they took the stage,…
Facebook Usernames? Which to choose?
Great! I see that Facebook is now going to dole out usernames. Well, actually, you get to pick one out on a “first come, first served” basis. That might make it easier to find folks on Facebook, I see. My quandry is which username to use? I like my techyfeely moniker and that is personal….
Creative Commons For the Win!!!
One of my CC licensed photos in Flickr was used in local blog posting. Feels mighty good to see all that good old social media mojo working. Knoxify – The insider’s take on what makes Knoxville great