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New Ning release said to address concerns like mine Yoz from Ning responds to my post about not being sure about Ning and its customization possibilities. In a periwinkle mood and all I got was shades of yellow
Not ready to give up I checked out the forest preserve's prarie area but I guess Cornflowers are not really prarie flora. They really like to grow by the side of the road. I only saw the usual suspects: Blackeyed Susans, Queen Anne's Lace, wild daisies and thistle. Disapointment #2: I ran into a sweet young deer just seconds before the camera batteries conked out. She must have been born this spring and had the look of a skinny pre-teen girl. I have in mind another Cornflower location on the way to work. My work neighborhoood isn't as well tended and more likely to leave the weeds there for me. Or maybe I'll have to go to Florence. Pop quiz: In what book (and movie) did a couple of old ladies get bedecked with Cornflowers in Florence? No fair googling. Nobody guessed my song lyric question. "I was taken by a photograph of you" was from Jackson Browne's Fountain of Sorrow (on Late for the Sky). Maybe my taste in music really is too wimpy, Midwestern and emotional. You know what would be handy? A desktop widget that reported your progress on a project. Javascript can do calculations. You wouldn't even need Java, would you? You'd just have the user enter a couple things and have it report something like this.
That which we call a technograph by any other name would smell as hierarchical I propose the term for technography should become docnography no matter who the scribe is. Dave says names don't matter and I agree. Technography as a term has yet to become entrenched. So why not make it fun and honor Doc. It would be the online equivilent of naming a building after him. Later: Technography as a term is more entrenched than I thought. But it also seems to have a lot of other unrelated meanings from death investigation to description of the arts and crafts of tribes and peoples (this is the dictionary meaning), to site stats, integration of computers into junior high language arts classes, convergence of arts and technology, plus all kinds of made-up stuff. But there are also a lot of references to taking notes at meetings, most from 3-10 years ago. Upgrades at Ning They've added a message center, friends and contacts, app search -- and say they have made application creation easier. Ning. I'm still not sure what I think about Ning. It all seems so canned. At least when I mess around with customizing LAMP stuff, it seems and looks more like it's mine. Chicago must not be seen as a terrorist target Here are the latest Department of Homeland Security allocations by state. (.pdf) See the column called "Urban Areas Security Initiative Allocation." Illinois gets an extra $50 million compared to more than $100 million for New York and California. The U.S. government never seems to get how creative Islamic terrorists are. Or maybe it does, but thinks it has to rush to protect against schemes already tried -- just to make citizens feel safe, like the silliness of having air passengers take off their shoes after Richard Reid tried the shoe bomb. I'd definitely hit Chicago if I were a terrorist, since it appears we're not watching. During the week following 9/11 it chilled me to the bone to watch the dancing in the streets in Afghanistan on CNN -- in particular a 10-year-old kid with the photo of the Sear's Tower and a greedy look, saying "This one's mine." |
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I actually put it on my weekend todo list that I wanted to grab some Cornflowers but I waited too long. By the time I got to the already-scouted corner by a nearby carwash, they'd been mowed down. 
