Poster Presentations

JN has already posted about a recent reception at our university to recognize students who had presented their independent projects at a poster session at our state capitol, and how our own PB was one of them.

Despite the high seriousness of the occasion, however, the event did have its lighter moments, as when Dr. B feigned bewilderment at PB's explanation of father figures in novels by Ray Bradbury and Stephen King.

In addition, there was music! As reception attendees milled in the lobby of our Science Center, JL and BH tickled the ivories in the auditorium, executing a four-handed rendition of Edelweiss.

Performance audio: mp3
Performance video: mov

OPML Camp - Get on the Bus!

I am very excited to be participating in OPML Camp, a free unconference to be held in May at which participants "will discuss the current tools and applications for OPML, and construct wish lists for future features with the authors of many of the popular OPML products."

I've already started writing my OPML wish list and outlining my presentation in (what else?) OPML!


opmlcamp

A Test Post to Two Blogs at Once

This post should post to DanToday and danblasts at the same time!

w.bloggar : a freeware blogging client

It turns out that there are quite a few blogging clients out there. BlogJet is just one of them. And whereas BlogJet expects payment, others, such as w.bloggar, are free (although w.bloggar will accept donations).

Why use a blogging client instead of a web interface when you blog? The client offers some convenient features, such as multiple posting. The main advantage, however, is that the posts one composes in a blogging client may be saved locally, on one's computer. Thus, one can compose one's blog entries offline, to post later, or just keep an archive of blog posts as a backup.

Some may think Thingamablog is even better. If one has a web host that supports FTP, one can use Thingamablog to set up a self-contained weblog, complete with RSS feed (feeds, actually, since it can create a separate feeds for separate categories of entry). I know I've mentioned Thingamablog before, but it's one free, cross platform blogging tool news of which bears repeating!

Testing BlogJet

I have installed an interesting application - BlogJet. It's a Windows client for Blogger (as well as for other blogging tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination." -- Albert Einstein