Archive for November, 2008

Croom

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

Sylvester Croom is out at Mississippi State. Five years ago, passed over for a job at Alabama, he took over a sputtering program, soon to be on probation, with a huge discipline problem, terrible recruiting, and awful facilities. Arguably the weakest school in the SEC from a variety of perspectives. Five years later, he hasn’t [...]

Smoked turkey

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

How to smoke a turkey, Dilger style

Web 2.0 style update

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Update on the web 2.0 style article: draft nearly done, now ten elements of style

Breezy intervals

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Went to the track yesterday for some intervals. It was pretty warm, in the low 40s, but windy. I was underdressed, cold on the way there, cold between sets, and cold when running into the wind. Still, I was pretty pleased to run 10 x 400m at 1:36 or better (6:24/mi). Average time 1:32, fastest [...]

Fair use best practices

Monday, November 17th, 2008

The Center for Social Media releases best practices for fair use in media literacy education: a strong document with few problems.

Being daddy

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

I’ve been on parental leave since Amelia was born. We’ve enjoyed good support from friends, with a nice stream of meals and some thoughtful gifts as well. (At left, the card from Jeff and Jenny.) I’m happy to say all of my girls are doing well. Erin has recovered very nicely from giving birth to [...]