The State of the Interwebs
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.
Back in the old days, when I taught a community college course on programming, I learned the difference between data and information. Data is all around you. It doesn’t really help most of the time. Information, on the other hand, is the data distilled into a form you can actually use.
So Myplanet Digital, my new employers as of Nov 2011, have sent me, and a small platoon of Myplaneteers, to Denver, the mile high city, for DrupalCon 2012. This is my first DrupalCon; but hopefully not my last. I’ve been spending a lot of time over the past few days poring over the 3 day…
Mom invited me over for dafina yesterday, and as my car was in the shop most of the day, I spent the afternoon with M&D. I had Bender with me and, to pass the time, I uploaded a few episodes of Weeds I had on my hard drive, to a jump drive. Then I played…
This year I participated in One Web Day. OWD promotes Web issues to the public. It celebrates that every participant to the web is also a contributor. As part of Tucows’ support and involvement, we collected over 10GB of public domain and Creative Commons ebooks. These will be loaded onto computers we donated to the…
Google is today releasing a new browser called Chrome. It’s supposed to be much faster and more robust than existing alternatives. (Yes, even better than FF. Can you believe it?) Google describes the philosophy and advantages in a 38 page comic book: https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ The big question is what this will mean for the current players? …
My good friend Ray got me wise to this new photo editing software called Affinity Photo. Well, it was “new” to me. It’s been around for a while, judging from all the videos about it on YouTube. I’d been grousing about how much it was costing me to have Adobe PhotoShop on my computer. I…