http://www.muddle.org/amphigouri varnished nonsense Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:47:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Gak. Have 5 years passed already since I was boggling at Smiley turning 20? Sheesh. Happy 25th to the first emoticon. (arrr!) Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes - a colon followed by a hyphen and a ... http://www.muddle.org/amphigouri/2007/09/19/smiley-turns-25.html According to a MacWorld UK post: [Toshiba revealed] revealing plans to boost maximum capacity in its 1.8-inch drives to 120GB; two such drives could be combined to offer iPods with 240GB capacity. The company has developed a prototype 120GB drive which improved on the perpendicular magnetic recording technology used in the ... http://www.muddle.org/amphigouri/2007/09/12/new-larger-ipod-drives-in-2-years.html Back when Bloglines was suffering some significant technical difficulties, I switched to Google Reader for tracking the feeds from a goodly number of websites. I had a number of minor gripes about GR (a post describing these has been languishing in draft status for months), two of which (ones I ... http://www.muddle.org/amphigouri/2007/09/06/o-happy-day-google-reader-updates.html Ok, perhaps that's being a wee bit unfair, as I'm still what I'd consider both an AJAX n00b and ColdFusion beginner. I'm currently frobbing with the CFAjax implementation which, I will admit, beats the pants off having to write the whole bloody mess myself. However, I'm simply not adept at ... http://www.muddle.org/amphigouri/2007/05/31/ajax-is-cool-ajax-with-coldfusion-ehh-notsomuch.html From the EDUCAUSE "7 things you should know" series, which "provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices." This brief(pdf) covers: What is it? Who's doing it? How does it work? Why is it significant? What are the downsides? Where is it going? What are the implications for teaching and learning? (via The Kept-up Academic Librarian] ) http://www.muddle.org/amphigouri/2007/05/11/seven-things-you-should-know-about-rss.html I read today about MyCyberTwin, "a website that allows you to create virtual personalities that can chat for you online." At first blush, it looks like it's a system where you can set up what makes me think of a personalized Eliza (tho not necessarily with the therapist angle).... an ... http://www.muddle.org/amphigouri/2007/04/03/mycybertwin.html