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Cold is relative

Spending time with family this holiday season. Having a wonderful time. Thanks to Lindsay for sending me this information via email. Helps put the cold in NW Montana into perspective. Here are a few thoughts she forwarded. Yep, it is cold here at times. 65 above zero: Floridians turn on […]

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Many Thanks

I wanted to take a few moments and acknowledge the kindness of my new friends from Montana. Chris, Jeff, Don, and Dwayne helped me get to the Great Falls area this week. Essentially Delta/ Northwest Airlines diverted our plane to Billings instead of Great Falls. Lots of ice on the […]

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Congratulations

The Fall, 2009 semester is now officially concluded. I hope students had as much fun in the courses as I did. We covered some great topics and had  lots of interesting discussions during the semester. I wanted to take a moment and acknowledge a select group of students. In the […]

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Happy 15th Birthday Commercial Browsers

Today (December 15), 1994 marked the release of the first commercial web browser (which became Netscape Navigator). Although a beta version had been released in October (Oct. 13, I believe), this was the official launch date. Although AOL dropped support for this in 2007, this marked a milestone. Prior to […]

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Office Hours and Open Lab

During the Fall, 2009 semester, I used Adobe ConnectPro for my online office hours in addition to the open lab we hold on Wednesday and Thursday nights for students in the ICC Web program. I did some tracking to determine how frequently students took advantage of these opportunities to learn […]

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New Laptop Configuration

I recently obtained a new laptop and have been spending a fair amount of time  this week configuring it for various activities. Understand that I teach both web systems classes and security classes so I have to meet multiple needs. I thought readers might find this interesting/ humorous. It does […]

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Weblog Spam

After deleting yet another 9 meaningless comments in this weblog, I must rant yet again on this topic. I realize these are simply bot programs that place meaningless drivel with comments to various sites. For those who care to read this post, there is a simple truth – even if […]

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Patches and Updates

I recently reviewed the November OUCH newsletter for SANS. Bill Wyman put together an extensive list of commonly installed software products (and the patch sites for each). I thought it would be helpful to share this with readers. This is used with permission. If you do not subscribe to the […]

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Happy Halloween

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Graphic objects with Flash

Here is another idea (again generated from Lynda.com training). In this example, one draws a simple shape in Actionscript (and colors it). Examine the linked working example. The copy button allows one to place another copy of the shape on the stage (and rotate it a bit for an interesting […]

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RIP GeoCities

Geocities is being closed by Yahoo! today. Back in the day, this was one of the most visited portals on the Internet (I think it was in the top 5 in 1998 or 1999). I believe Yahoo! spent over $3 billion on it in 1999 (back then, that was real […]

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Photo Editor with Pixel Bender Effect

I am indebted to the Lynda.com training videos for these ideas and help with the code. In this example (again based on a Lynda.com example), I took the Pixel Bender effect and applied it to a simple photo editor. You can now upload your own photo (keep it relatively small) […]

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What is this?

One must be very specific in their answer. It deals with my Tweets. It is not a tag cloud (or a tweet cloud). It does have a specific term. If you think you know the answer, send me an email with the URL where one can create these. Hint – […]

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Pixel Bender Example

Based on another Lynda.com video, I played a bit with bringing a Pixel Bender filter into Flash. This does require a link to the Flex SDK in order to work properly. The filter is brought in as a ByteArray. Examine the linked example and move your cursor over the image. […]

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Flash 3D cube

I was inspired this morning (after viewing a Lynda.com video) to try and create my own Flash 3D photo cube. Just follow the link (it will open in a new browser window/ tab). My photos were taken in Montana this summer (most at Glacier National Park in July). The bison […]

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