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About Ted Dziuba’s “web != OS” rant, inspired by Google’s Chrome browser

Lo-fi captions on YouTube!

Starting to think about WebCT accessibility, or lack thereof, I discovered its “safeassign” plagiarism detection has come to WIU.

I am very tempted to build a mini-PC like Jeff Atwood’s tiny ultra-low power PC. Why not? More interesting ideas in the comments.

Ripping an RSS feed to HTML using PHP

Lots of stuff going on with Composition Forum: new domain, Volume 18 released, and blogging too.

Someone else got hacked. Too bad.

Quantifying my exercise for the halfway point of 2008

I’m considering Open Journal Systems for Composition Forum. Anyone used it?

Great idea, awful URL:
http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2008a/pr229-08.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1
216 characters. And I thought C|Net was bad. A redundant alphabetic processional:

portal/site/: in case the server forgets it’s a web site?
nycgov/: isn’t the nyc.gov domain enough to indicate that?
c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0: sessions should not appear in the business part of URLs, but as variables. And 32 characters for a unique identifier? My math shows [...]