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Monthly Archives July 2004

Millennium Park, Chicago

I made the trip with Cindy to Chicago. She is attending a conference on digital portfolios sponsored by LiveText. We walked by Millenium Park last night and I went back on my own today to take some pictures. The main exhibit featured the a collection of photographs by Uwe Ommer titled “Family Album.” Ommer has [...]

Posted 31 July 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Internet and Fair Use

The July issue of eSchoolNews contains a headline article “Copyright: Can it hold knowledge hostage?” The articles takes its direction from an Annenberg School of Communication conference entitled Knowledge Held Hostage. We emphasize student created multimedia products as a way for students to explore and process course content. When these projects were based in a [...]

Posted 30 July 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Picasa

Windows users – have you secretly lusted (in your heart) after the really cool digital media tools Mac users take for granted. Here is an opportunity to approximate iPhoto on your machine. “Picasa works with the digital photo files on your PC to create a better, more organized viewing and editing experience. Picasa will not [...]

Posted 29 July 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Beware report of bin Laden suicide

CNN reports that an email hoax is circulating reporting that CNN has claimed Osama bin Laden has committed suicide. The email contains an image file that is actually a virus. Beware

Posted 25 July 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Politics Online

I was online recently with an acquaintance at Houghton Mifflin and she said she was taking this week off to avoid complications of the convention. Houghton Miffilin is located in Boston. This election year seems extremely important in setting the future path for the country. Differences of opinion regarding the war in Iraq and how [...]

Posted 25 July 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Live From Apple Camp

Cindy is in California at Apple Camp. She sent an email this morning saying I should connect to watch. It seems some of the sessions are being streamed. However, the stream is intended for ADEs only (which would also exclude me) so I cannot share. Here is an early morning view from a session room. [...]

Posted 22 July 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °

Back UP!!!

I have spent the last two days attempting to backup this server. Two days of my life! Things should not be this complicated, but security comes at a price. I have had very good luck throughout my career with technology, but bad luck catches up with everyone from time to time (recent problem). Two situations [...]

Posted 21 July 2004 † grabe § General ‡ Comments (0) °