Noticed the profileration of Wikis these days, especially for the user documentation on several websites. Some day I will figure out the pedagogical applications, but for now I’ll digest what this article has to say. ONLamp.com: Which Open Source Wiki Works For You?
Well I’ve heard of “words” like n00b, w00t and kewl (no thanks to my 1.5-year experience as a Diablo 2 addict on Battle.net, but apparently there’s a lot more of such “vocabulary” going around. Check out this parent’s primer to computer slang, published by…gasp!…none other than Microsoft itself. hmm, no wonder many of my students’ vocabulary and spelling absolutely suxx. :-O
This piece on blogging software roundup may be almost 2 years old, but it certainly reflects just how much the blogging landscape has changed in so short a time.
Didn’t realise just how small the Mac mini is till I saw this picture at this review by Tom’s Hardware Guide
Not sure why they decided to do this, but Quicktags are disabled in WordPress 1.5 if Safari is detected as the web browser being used. Anyway, it’s easy to renable it. Simply open up wp-admin/admin-functions.php and edit it as described in this post on the WordPress forums.
The upgrade suprisingly took only a few minutes, and no problems that I can see. That is, except for the fact that my static pages i.e. About Me and Tech no longer look quite right. No matter – will start working on re-generating them later in the week.