the reality tunnel

I got a new MacBook from work and need to migrate files from my old Dell notebook running Xubuntu Linux.  Luckily, I had recovered a drive from a bricked machine that was donated to pages that I could use to transfer the files. I don’t like the Fat32 file system, so I formatted the external [...]

I’m trying to use Drupal’s webform module to make a subscription form to a Mailman mailing list.  Tracking thoughts and problems here. I like webform because it stores form responses which might be useful. Webform also lets you send e-mail on form submission and specify the sender/subject.  I was going to use this to send [...]

Last summer at the AMC, I presented a session about Web 2.0 and social movements.  Because I inherited the session from someone else, I kept the session proposer’s rubric of introducing technologies/services by name  (Twitter, Jott, del.icio.us) so that people would be able to link the name/buzz with an idea of what it could do.  [...]

Comments on web sites often make me sad, but it’s good to see how complicated and often conflicting the experiences and perspectives of people are, like this exchange between 2 Wisconsin DOC employees from a pretty one-sided article about contraband in WI prisons.: DOCemployee Forumite Joined: 02/15/2009 Total posts: 2 It is Taycheedah Correctional INSTITUTION, [...]

The Allied Media Conference just released their website for the 2009 conference and opened up their session proposals.  If you have a great idea for a session for the 2009 conference, you can share it on their Submit Sessions page.

I’m in the process of reading the book Sundown Towns and I just started the chapter about “triggers”, or events that Whites used to rationalize running all the Black residents out of town. I was just watching PBS’ Independent Lens when I saw this documentary about Tulia, Texas.  The story sounded all too familiar …

From idsnews.com | Indiana Daily Student |: “My guess is that the Kirkwood that we’ve known since the ’70s and the ’60s is probably a thing of the past,” she said, “and I don’t necessarily think there’s anything anybody can do about it.”

This article came across my feed reader.  From the article: “The practice of separating girls from boys in the classroom was the norm decades ago. Now, it seems to be something of a new trend.” A few thoughts … I read a book on gender and computing that said that while girls do better in [...]

In the Defiance, Ohio song Oh, Susquehanna, I always envisioned rivers and the Susquehanna, familiar to me from where I grew up, as a metaphor for organic connectedness and aknowledgement that our lives have implications on our neighbors.  The metaphor is imperfect since, when used for our means, rivers become not only connectors but barriers.  [...]