It’s Hot Hot Hot

Well holidays are underway are they are none to exciting with this little heat wave that is going on here in Central Ontario. Hot, Hazy, Humid and 33C for the next several days (humidity is at 36C that’s 100F for my ferenheit friends.) So far holidays have consisted of a day of renting movies. “Keeping […]

Facebook Mistaken Identity is a Big Problem

True to form I found something to write about already. The Toronto Star today is reporting about a young graduate student from Ryerson who has been come the centre of a mistaken identity problem through Facebook. It seems that an Ontario cabinet staff member was reported to make an unfavourable comment this week in an […]

Holiday Time

Well I’m just getting ready to begin some summer holidays. I’m not going too far from home as this particular time I’m spending much of my holidays alone. I may get up a post or 2 in the next week before I set out on daily adventures. I’m kind of looking forward to being able […]

How to Hide Files inside JPGs

This is a simple little trick to hide files by compressing them with compression software and then using a small simple code you enter into the dos window. The video by JimmyR.com is a little hard to watch because it jumps around, but that is only because the filming size of the window is small. […]

10 Ways to Creatively use Wikipedia

I came across Top 20 Creative Ways to Use Wikipedia (Part 1) today from Friedbeef’s Tech blog. He’s posted 10 of the 20 so far. Take a look at the first one closely. It is really interesting how Greg Williams’ WikiWorld takes wiki articles and turns them into small cartoons. Visually they become more stimulating.

Print a Camera Lens Hood

I was reading through some feeds this morning and came across Top 5 Useful Items You Never Knew You Could Print Out. Well I’ve used all but one and thought this one was just kind of neat. Printing out a Camera Lens Hood. I always find it fascinating when someone has the ingenuity to “craft” […]

BlogOrlando

I’ve never been to an unconference before. I only just recently have seen the term mentioned. Apparently an unconference is one where the content of the conference is generated day-by-day by the participants and their overall interests instead of predetermined ahead of time by an organizing group. I came across this unconference BlogOrlando coming up […]

Tokyo Subway Map vs. Web Trends 2007 Diagram

I showed a friend tonight, who taught in Japan for 11 years, the Web Trends 2007 Diagram and she asked why I had a picture of the Tokyo subway. So I had to look up for myself the subway map.Ha. Now I’m even more amused at the Trends Diagram.

Web Trend Map 2007 Version 2.0 – Confusing Diagram

I saw this via George Siemens today. All I can say when I looked at is was WOW. My colleage that shares my office just wants to know….who creates these and where do they find the time.Well this one is brought to you by Information Architects Japan (click diagram for link)

Interesting Links and Some Free CD Resources

Scanning my feeds today one from ALA struck me when I saw free elearning cd resources were available from The Australian Flexible Learning Framework. I then started looking through their site and found lots of interesting links filled with all sorts of ideas. These 3 links came from a presentation that was available for viewing […]