Saturday, April 14, 2007
AWSF Meeting--The Afternoon Before
I spent the afternoon in the Mount Rushmore National Park. I've posted roughly 60 photos on Flickr and eight videos on REVVER this evening.
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Power Winder for Minolta X7A
One of the results of my Sony F717's CCD dying was I that I started shooting film again. This led me to look for gear on Ebay that I could use to augment my camera. Not suprisingly, there is a brisk business online of folks selling compatible equipment. There are many lenses, flashes, and power winders available.
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Rapid City
I am on my way to Rapid City, SD for the annual gathering of Western States Folklorists. Normally this meeting takes place somewhere in the in the West. This year the meeting is in the Midwest and Folklorists form the MidWest have been invited to participate.
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Digital Camera Wish
I take at least one photo a day and send it to Flickr. Often that picture is taken from my cell phone, a Treo 650, and soon after sent to flickr via a special email address set up to accept photos and plop them into my photo stream. Flickr then automatically adds my preset tags making them findable. It is pretty slick and works very well with an Internet enabled phone.
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Friday, April 13, 2007
The Second Life Non Profit Presence Getting Closer
Offices are being allocated to the tenants and it looks like we might start furnishing very soon. If you are interested in who is being housed where, check out the Flickr page below and mouse over the image.
NPSL (Thanks Missouri Humanities Council!)
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
The Drupal Song
TechSoup's NonProfit Second Life Extravaganza
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More on Uptime and Nonprofits
Greg left a note mentioning the free monitoring service, Monastic. It doesn't have as much functionality as SiteUpTime.com, but you can monitor 100 sites. If all you are doing is trying to track when your site(s) are down then it seems like this might be a better solution than SiteUpTime. So, as an experiment I have both monitoring systems monitoring the Tech Soup in Second Life site. If I have any revelations, I'll share.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Uptime and Nonprofits
Recently I had an Skype message from Susan, our "nonprofit administrator herder" for the Nonprofits in Second Life project. I have to assume that she was posting to the site, or perhaps reading some recent content. In any case, she IMed me because the site was down. I'm acting as the Web master, so this made good sense. I probed a little bit and came to the conclusion that the server was completely unresponsive.
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Monday, April 09, 2007
The Ties That Bind
For some time now I have been working on a Folklorist's project for the Colorado Council on the Arts called, "The Ties That Bind". The project is getting very close to completion. You can get a preview of it at dogstar.org/ties.
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Tiger at the Denver Zoo
This past week I took my daughter and her best friend to the Denver Zoo. It is a great way to fritter away the afternoon. Normally one of my favourite animals to seek out is the tiger. It is a pretty stunning cat. On this particular afternoon it was hidden away in its lair--but was roaring like a crazy thing.
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