two

plordle

Wordled the ten most recent poems at plainer. Common words removed.

 

Common words included:

twordle

Wordled my current Twitter window. A rich old word comes out on top.

the blue

Lately on Facebook I've been friended by a raft of people I've never met but whose apparent connections to others I know seem solid enough ... so I confirmed them. But I'm still left wondering why they would want to be connected to me whom they do not know nor probably ever will. Is it just plain cool to be my "friend"?

Must be.

brtom.org

Just uploaded the new face of brtom.org. But I can't get the rollover & click color changes to work for the links. Anybody know anything about this? I also only recently recognized that the rollovers on the old page also had stopped working. Is this an issue with the browser?

search engine

New search engine ... kind of cool ... Cuil ... and pronounced "cool" ...

Article on it here.

some word

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 17): 554 Content filter will not allow this message (Mode: normal)

I tried to send my self at school a copy of James Schuyler's "Hymn to Life" ... but one word buried deep deep down around maybe line 137 and used with the utmost propriety kept it out. And I feel my world's a safer place already. But there's nothing more to say. All the words been taken away.

diigo?

Several years ago, I wrote an article for Technology & Learning Magazine about the future of textbooks. I am not sure if I expressed this in the article, but I remember thinking that the textbook, however it manifest itself, should become a meeting place, where students come and discuss, right there at the content. This is what seems possible with Diigo.

This article by David Warlick convinced me to check out Diigo. I'm not quite sure what to make of it yet, but if it really does move us inthe direction of the thought expressed in this quotation, I'm probably going to be down with it.

question

Is the volume on those Gcast recordings too low for you? It sounds fine on my iMac. Do you have to crank it up to hear anything? Please let me know. Thanks.

sound

You may have noticed that I've added one of these:

to the front page of my website. The internet needs more of my voice pollution, and I'm happy to provide it. For now, the casts consist of poems from Plainer ... but maybe soon there will be actual other vocalizations ... just me talking to ... students, family, friends, or even you.

As indicated in the description of the first cast, I'm indebted to the archetype of audio poems that one may find at Growing Nation ... thanks, Jordan! (Gcast won out over Gabcast because it allows for file upload and well as phone-recorded posts)

online

you can tell brtom.org is back in action because this blog is loading pictures again ... here's a recent one ...

i'm guessing most of my readers have plenty of their own snowpix ... so i'll just post one ... winter came way too quickly this year

i don't have the energy or will to tell the tale of all that has gone wrong with the website over the past week ... but the one right thing has been (even in the midst of their one big screwup) the helpfulness and good will of the tech support people at OLM ... a very merry whatever to all of them ...

here in the blog age one wonders if the having of an actual personal website is of any value at all ... way back in the beginning i called the site The Wonder Closet because i knew even then that it would become a dumping ground for a wide range of personal interests and oddities ... and so it remains ... i've got stuff in there that i can hardly remember it's there ... and barrels of broken links ... (dropped the "closet" title when some folks started offering variant readings of it that were ... well ... beside the point)