I was part of Western’s MLA interview team this year. I’ve heard a lot of people complain about interviewing, but I really enjoyed it, in large part because it went so well. It didn’t take Alice, Amy, and I long to settle into a groove, and most of our interviews turned out to be conversations [...]
Our assimilation into the Midwest is now complete.
Here’s a summary of our recent trip to Cheshire, CT to see my grandfather, who is recovering from a broken hip. This was the second try; the first was canceled because of bad weather. We planned a side trip to see my aunt and uncle as well–but that didn’t work out….
Sat Dec 15: Our 2:30pm [...]
A week ago we got a Christmas tree. Our first in about six years. Madelyn was thrilled. Today we finally got her to pose for our Christmas card picture.
Not a lot of decorations; we were planning to add more, but Madelyn insists on pulling them off to play, so we’re kinda bare-bones for now. One [...]
Madelyn’s XO arrived tonight. On the one hand, awful timing; I have grading to do, and I wanna play with this new laptop! On the other hand, we’ll get to take it on our upcoming trip, which rocks.
I’ve only used it an hour or two, but I have to say I’m very impressed. If this [...]
Some very strong projects this year in both the Style course and Computers & Writing:
Nascent standup comedian Ryan Budds created a site to promote himself, nicely integrating Flickr, Google Calendar, YouTube, and traditional web pages.
Lora Carmichael wrote a conference presentation which provides methods for teaching writing style to high school students, asserting that it [...]
I just posted my second final exam via weblog, and now I’m listening to the pleasant sound of twenty-six hands typing furiously. I wish it was in OpenOffice format, but we only have Borg Office in our computer classrooms. Some nifty projects to share this semester; I’ll say more about that before too long.
This semester [...]
Joe Clark provides the web page for the Greater Toronto Transportation Authority (aka Metrolinx) as rendered by JAWS.
Ouch.
curl -O -C - http://wrecking.org/404.jpeg
wget -c http://wrecking.org/404.jpeg
Context:
Someone emailed me a nifty Flash object, and I wanted a copy.
Explanation:
These commands do the same thing: grab the URL indicated and dump it to a local file with the filename used on the remote server. So the URL above becomes 404.jpeg in the local directory. (For curl, this [...]
I cancelled my classes this week on Wednesday to deal with a cancellation of sorts. Thursday I found out one of my Spring classes is being cancelled. A Friday meeting which I planned extensively for was cancelled. Today we were going to fly to Connecticut to visit my grandfather, but our flight was cancelled, and [...]