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Many have heard me complain that I’m not a fan of AWOLNATION’s hit song “Sail!”. One thing I often cite is how few unique words are in the song. I finally ran the numbers: AWOLNATION’s four minute and twenty seconds song “Sail” has 85 words, but, only 36 of those words are unique! Here’s how… Continue Reading How many unique words are in AWOLNATION’s “Sail!”?

Over four months ago I ordered a WoPad from PandaWill.com, so far I’m glad to have the exposure to the Android platform, and for some tasks the larger screen works well. But, the bottom line is it does not replace what any of the Apple iOS devices do. The Device The best part about the… Continue Reading WoPad Android Tablet: 1/4 of the price of an iPad, 1/2 as good

Over the last month I’ve moved from my previous Virtual Private Server (VPS) with A2WebHosting to Linode. A2WebHosting was a good host back when I only needed a shared host, before I wanted the apache web server highly configure with a lot of extra settings and things like PHP’s APC. My transition to A2WebHosting’s VPS… Continue Reading Moved VPS’es

Last weekend Lindsay and I added a backyard patio to our house with the help of a lot of family and friends. I had spent the last week and a bit measuring, finding materials, researching methods and ultimately buying and scheduling deliveries. Our weekend helpers helped finishing the big dig and laying the stone slabs.… Continue Reading Canada Weekend Project: Backyard Patio

I had a great time at the Sakai Conference 2011 in Los Angeles. My presentation this year was titled LMS-Based Teaching Hacks: A Collection of Simple Ideas to Tweak Your Teaching Within an LMS. It was well received and the room was standing room only. Much as the development community would use the term, these… Continue Reading Sakai Conference 2011