This is a phenomenal little web ap I found out about on Stephen’s Web. You enter the URL of a website and it draws a network map. The opening was mesmerizing, wathcing it trace links in real time.

What do the colors mean?
blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for Continue reading →

My son Austin graduated from San Francisco State with a BS in Geosciences yesterday. I’m a proud dad, feeling older, and happy for Austin. The gold cord drooped over his shoulders is an “honor cord,” awarded to one grad in each department, selected by his peers.

Austin probably got a better education Continue reading →

In the early days of the web, construction signs littered the landscape. Some people put them on every page!
In time people realized that web pages weren’t meant to be static, like books. You didn’t need to excuse unfinished work. because everything is a work in progress. Nothing is ever finished! Continue reading →

I have really been looking forward to Edward Hallowell‘s new book CrazyBusy, Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap, Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD. The only ADD book I’ve seen that’s better than his earlier Driven to Distraction is its sequel Delivered from Distraction. Last year Continue reading →

The little applications appearing on the Web are addictive. Take a look at Web 2.0 Slideshow. Quickly browsing the left column, I came upon Zoom Clouds. Take a look at the bottom of this page to see the result: a cloud of recent blog postings here.

As you can see (unless you’re reading via RSS and then perhaps not), I’ve changed the look of Internet Time Blog and Informal Learning Blog. A tip of the hat to Alan Levine’s CogDogBlog for the wake-up call. His recent description of customizing a clean template was spot on. I’d been struggling with Continue reading →

My tenth Himalayan Fair:

Tagine with old friends at Tagine:

A restaurant in the Wine Country (for the Harts):

And a handy new Flickr toy.