iMatt :: The Blog of Matt Clare

My presentation was this morning, right after the keynote address by the president and VP from Blackboard, Michael Chasen and Karen Gage. Depending on how you look at it, pretty good billing. Michael from Bb had some interesting things to say and he talked about Web 2.0 and suggested that we’re about to see e-Learning… Continue Reading Conference Presentation Went Well

I presented at the Ontario University Computing Conference (OUCC) this week. The presentation went well and I had a good balance of keener’s and skeptics in the crowd. The bad news is my plan A and plan B for recording the presentation for a future podcast both failed – so we’ll have to figure out… Continue Reading OUCC 2006

I just moved mattclare.ca from a friend’s web host to my existing A2WebHosting account (for passnerd.com). I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, but I anticipated that it wouldn’t be too smooth. The final push was the bandwidth messages I was starting to get every 6 hours: The domain mattclare.ca (mclare) has reached… Continue Reading Web hosting catharsis

There’s a whole web site dedicated to dealing with questions that should have been Google’d before they were asked: justfuckinggoogleit.com. But sometimes it can be hard to find help on a subject through Google. Often if you search How to convert an audio file Google will tell you that how is too common and omit… Continue Reading Google tip for finding out how to do something

Just a little after Easter here’s an Easter Egg in Mozilla Firefox: goto the URL “about:mozilla“and learn about “The Book of Mozilla”.