Category: Personal

  • Changes with 2.8

    Last week, in addition to the noise around Facebook, there was also another vanity URL oriented geek event. WordPress 2.8 was released and it was the first time since 2.7 that a full .X upgrade was available to users over the new automated update system. In typical WordPress fashion, everything generally went smooth (one install…

  • 4 years, 1774 posts… and it keeps going

    Today my blogging effort – in any serious form turns 4. Four years has certainly seen quite a bit of change for me personally and professionally and it has seen all manner of change for technology and well some of it has made it’s way to the classroom in either k-12 or higher ed. So…

  • Should we hurry our infants?

    Much of my interest in games and learning came from my youth playing games as seeing that there were potentially a really effective tool to deliver content. Though at the time I was playing those games, I wasn’t thinking about teaching and learning. I only saw how playing games about an age or time helped…

  • Win7 RC1 in VM

    Well it certainly installs fast and seems to be stable in the VM, but I’ll have to really play on it to see if it is something that I might want to consider as fallback option to my Hackintosh build…

  • Fallback considerations for the Hackintosh

    I’ve been pondering two things with relation to the Hackintosh. The first has to do with the “overbuild” of the machine. In OSX, I’m not to worried as the OS will likely be able to make use of the processor and video card through various Apple technologies. But if I can’t get the Hack to…