Previously, I’ve noted a cool video site, dotSUB, that takes an interesting approach to ultimately add multi-lingual captions to video– allowing visitors to the site to add translations of the captions into any of the numerous other languages supported on the site.. or, as I call it, “user generated video captioning”.
Today, I chatted with the CEO who offered to allow us to post a video to make available for captioning and they offered to do the first transcript in English. I posted our NMC Campus Seriously Engaging video (see the original).
And this is where you can participate– if you create a free account on dotSUB, you can add captions for any other language by translating the English version of the captions. Please jump in!
There is more to dotSUB’s approach, but this part here is very impressive- note the rise of another CommonCraft special Wikis in Plain English.
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Today, I chatted with the CEO who offered to allow us to post a video to make available for captioning and they offered to do the first transcript in English. I posted our NMC Campus Seriously Engaging video (see the original).
And this is where you can participate– if you create a free account on dotSUB, you can add captions for any other language by translating the English version of the captions. Please jump in!
There is more to dotSUB’s approach, but this part here is very impressive- note the rise of another CommonCraft special Wikis in Plain English.
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1181104742;}i:1;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:29:"The Cat In the Server is Gone";s:4:"link";s:40:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/05/no-cat/";s:8:"comments";s:49:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/05/no-cat/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:53:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alan";}s:8:"category";s:14:"dog's eye view";s:4:"guid";s:40:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/05/no-cat/";s:11:"description";s:188:"Twitter has grown up and disbanded the silly and annoying cat in the server photos for times when the service is off kilter. They’ve gone uptown with a new bird warning: Dogs rule! ";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:299:"Twitter has grown up and disbanded the silly and annoying cat in the server photos for times when the service is off kilter. They’ve gone uptown with a new bird warning:
Dogs rule!
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I speak with real painters and real artists from time to time about when they get their rocks off, and it?s the process of actually doing it. The rest of it ? rave reviews or flops, or whatever ? is just noise to them. It?s the doing that matters, the becoming. The rest of it doesn?t really matter.
One ore time- its not about the reviews (comments, trackbacks, etc), what people say about what you do, ” It?s the doing that matters, the becoming.”
That most succinctly hits the “why” factor for more- in the doing of blogging, I am rewarded, it is my own sense of becoming.
And one more quote log for the fire:
?A lack of seriousness,? you wrote, ?has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.?
Yes. The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art ? because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I?ve done ? is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae…. I?ve said it before: I write in the voice of a child. That makes me readable in high school. [Laughs.] Not too many big sentences. But I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don?t use semicolons. It?s hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony. I don?t like people saying one thing and meaning the other.
And talk about prophetic! People who engage in twitter might be properly called Wampeters
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I speak with real painters and real artists from time to time about when they get their rocks off, and it?s the process of actually doing it. The rest of it ? rave reviews or flops, or whatever ? is just noise to them. It?s the doing that matters, the becoming. The rest of it doesn?t really matter.
One ore time- its not about the reviews (comments, trackbacks, etc), what people say about what you do, ” It?s the doing that matters, the becoming.”
That most succinctly hits the “why” factor for more- in the doing of blogging, I am rewarded, it is my own sense of becoming.
And one more quote log for the fire:
?A lack of seriousness,? you wrote, ?has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.?
Yes. The world is too serious. To get mad at a work of art ? because maybe somebody, somewhere is blowing his stack over what I?ve done ? is like getting mad at a hot fudge sundae…. I?ve said it before: I write in the voice of a child. That makes me readable in high school. [Laughs.] Not too many big sentences. But I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don?t use semicolons. It?s hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony. I don?t like people saying one thing and meaning the other.
And talk about prophetic! People who engage in twitter might be properly called Wampeters
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1181020438;}i:3;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:16:"Quote of the Day";s:4:"link";s:50:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/04/quote-of-the-day/";s:8:"comments";s:59:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/04/quote-of-the-day/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:09:25 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alan";}s:8:"category";s:14:"dog's eye view";s:4:"guid";s:50:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/04/quote-of-the-day/";s:11:"description";s:331:"As we exited from a fabulous seafood dinner at the Oceanaire in downtown Indianapolis, our tourist eyes were caught by the flashing light animation up the street- looked like a electronic dancer, an avatar maybe. When we asked the valet what that was, he quickly explained it: Waste of Taxpayers Money Gotta like the honesty here. ";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:443:"As we exited from a fabulous seafood dinner at the Oceanaire in downtown Indianapolis, our tourist eyes were caught by the flashing light animation up the street- looked like a electronic dancer, an avatar maybe. When we asked the valet what that was, he quickly explained it:
Waste of Taxpayers Money
Gotta like the honesty here.
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Waste of Taxpayers Money
Gotta like the honesty here.
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1181016565;}i:4;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:50:"I Get Web 2.0ed With a Little Help From My Friends";s:4:"link";s:41:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/01/friends/";s:8:"comments";s:50:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/01/friends/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Sat, 02 Jun 2007 06:53:16 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alan";}s:8:"category";s:36:"small piecesdog's eye viewnmcweb X.0";s:4:"guid";s:41:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/06/01/friends/";s:11:"description";s:296:"It’s the day before I board the Big Old Jet Airliner to the NMC Summer Conference and I am piling on the Web 2.0 Tagging goodness, or zaniness. This recap is as much to document as to thanks those I lean on. Last year, at the 2006 Summer conference in Cleveland, being my first one in [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:1502:"It’s the day before I board the Big Old Jet Airliner to the NMC Summer Conference and I am piling on the Web 2.0 Tagging goodness, or zaniness. This recap is as much to document as to thanks those I lean on.
Last year, at the 2006 Summer conference in Cleveland, being my first one in the fold of NMC employment, I rolled out a Tag This Conference page, mixing up del.icio.us, flickr, and hopefully technorati content all tagged with nmc2006, the page doing so with some help from a local version of feed2js. Repeated this tagging for the 2006 Regional Conference in San Antonio.
So without too much extension, the Web 1.0ish page is up for next week’s conference spiffed up a bit by bringing it also up as a Tumblog, which presents the feeds from the same 3 sources a bit more stylishly.
Okay, that is good, but…
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Last year, at the 2006 Summer conference in Cleveland, being my first one in the fold of NMC employment, I rolled out a Tag This Conference page, mixing up del.icio.us, flickr, and hopefully technorati content all tagged with nmc2006, the page doing so with some help from a local version of feed2js. Repeated this tagging for the 2006 Regional Conference in San Antonio.
So without too much extension, the Web 1.0ish page is up for next week’s conference spiffed up a bit by bringing it also up as a Tumblog, which presents the feeds from the same 3 sources a bit more stylishly.
Okay, that is good, but…
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1180767196;}i:5;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:43:"Google Maps Takin? It to the Streets [View]";s:4:"link";s:41:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/31/streets/";s:8:"comments";s:50:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/31/streets/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Thu, 31 May 2007 17:57:31 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alan";}s:8:"category";s:19:"web good dogweb X.0";s:4:"guid";s:41:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/31/streets/";s:11:"description";s:291:"I’m only one of billions who loves Google Maps. They find things, you can overlay satellite images. But what if you could really peek in an see what is there? Now you can* with the Street View option (*in limited areas). You can place a little icon person on the map, and get a [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2230:"I’m only one of billions who loves Google Maps. They find things, you can overlay satellite images. But what if you could really peek in an see what is there?
Now you can* with the Street View option (*in limited areas). You can place a little icon person on the map, and get a fully navigable view of what is in the street! Because the example I saw was in Manhattan, and for a friend traveling there I had been trying to remember a funky bar I used to frequent as a college student there for a summer in the 1980s, I took a tour…. But I could not remember the address of the “Ear Bar” (outside hung a neon sign that read “BAR” and part of it was painted black so it light up as “EAR”.
So a little Google search found the address as 326 Spring Street. I go there in Google Maps, and click the Street View map option, and it shows all image enabled streets marked in blie, and Spring Street near the Hudson is lit up. I click my marker there, move west on the street to get near, pivot, and I can see the freakin’ Bar!
I can pivot the view, zoom on, and use the directional arrows to move the camera east and west on the street. This is just amazing, and takes maps to a whole new level where you can see what is at a mapped location (concerns of spying aside.. for now, just play!)
For some more information on this, see the story at Google Blogscoped where there is also some info on new gadgets called “Mapplets”. See also a story at O’Reilly Radar.
Images come from Immersive Media — but where are all these camera?
Linktribution to this find via a random wandering of kotke’s remaindered links
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So a little Google search found the address as 326 Spring Street. I go there in Google Maps, and click the Street View map option, and it shows all image enabled streets marked in blie, and Spring Street near the Hudson is lit up. I click my marker there, move west on the street to get near, pivot, and I can see the freakin’ Bar!
I can pivot the view, zoom on, and use the directional arrows to move the camera east and west on the street. This is just amazing, and takes maps to a whole new level where you can see what is at a mapped location (concerns of spying aside.. for now, just play!)
For some more information on this, see the story at Google Blogscoped where there is also some info on new gadgets called “Mapplets”. See also a story at O’Reilly Radar.
Images come from Immersive Media — but where are all these camera?
Linktribution to this find via a random wandering of kotke’s remaindered links
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Dumb spamming, or How to Spam Like a Moronic Dummy:
I’m going to get worried when email spammers finally develop good writing skills. Today, I earned another pile of money, a million pounds courtesy of Microsoft (hey they have gazillions to spare, believable, eh?)
Dumb spamming, or How to Spam Like a Moronic Dummy:
I leave in a few days for the 2007 NMC Summer Conference in Indianapolis. This is actually a minor test of blogging into the wind to see if Technorati picks up the conference tag of nmc2007 (I still am never 100% sure if it will pick up tagged blog posts).
But yay! it looks like the simple WP plugin I used, then broke, Bunny’s Technorati Tags, is functional in WordPress 2.x — I like its simplicity of just tagging when I feel like it; my categories are not all that coherent to warrant an Ultimate Tag Warrior approach (call me a tag wimp rather than warrior).
So for those bloggers, flickerites, and del.icio.us markers, remember to tag a whole boat load of stuff with nmc2007. I have the duct tape and bailing wire Tag This Conference page set up to receive tagged stuff, and am also testing a tumblr site to see how it grabs tagged and bagged content.
And yes, I know, despite the release of our NMC 2.0 drupal powered web site, the June conference is in the retro style of the old site. This is because we did not have time to build a new conference registration and session proposal system– this is on the planning books for July to roll these functionalities into drupal, and never again will you have to re-enter ever bit of your contact info in a web form. The site will know you.
But I stray from the conference topic- we have a fantastic program (full PDF now available- by the time of our next conference, programs will be dynamically generated on the new site). IUPUI is looking like a fantastic venue, and unlike last year, there will be beaucoup free wireless access. And I am looking forward to meeting up with 400+ colleagues, and especially when I get the fun job or emcee-ing the Five Minutes of Fame. I am trying to organized today a number of things we can live stream into Second Life- look for an announcement over the NMC Campus Observer.
And it looks like I’ll be sharing a room with Dr Glu, hope he does not keep me up all night twittering and tossing out obscure music lyrics. Actually, I hope he does.
More in a few….
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But yay! it looks like the simple WP plugin I used, then broke, Bunny’s Technorati Tags, is functional in WordPress 2.x — I like its simplicity of just tagging when I feel like it; my categories are not all that coherent to warrant an Ultimate Tag Warrior approach (call me a tag wimp rather than warrior).
So for those bloggers, flickerites, and del.icio.us markers, remember to tag a whole boat load of stuff with nmc2007. I have the duct tape and bailing wire Tag This Conference page set up to receive tagged stuff, and am also testing a tumblr site to see how it grabs tagged and bagged content.
And yes, I know, despite the release of our NMC 2.0 drupal powered web site, the June conference is in the retro style of the old site. This is because we did not have time to build a new conference registration and session proposal system– this is on the planning books for July to roll these functionalities into drupal, and never again will you have to re-enter ever bit of your contact info in a web form. The site will know you.
But I stray from the conference topic- we have a fantastic program (full PDF now available- by the time of our next conference, programs will be dynamically generated on the new site). IUPUI is looking like a fantastic venue, and unlike last year, there will be beaucoup free wireless access. And I am looking forward to meeting up with 400+ colleagues, and especially when I get the fun job or emcee-ing the Five Minutes of Fame. I am trying to organized today a number of things we can live stream into Second Life- look for an announcement over the NMC Campus Observer.
And it looks like I’ll be sharing a room with Dr Glu, hope he does not keep me up all night twittering and tossing out obscure music lyrics. Actually, I hope he does.
More in a few….
";s:14:"date_timestamp";i:1180549729;}i:8;a:13:{s:5:"title";s:25:"Al Goring The House Today";s:4:"link";s:59:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/28/al-goring-the-house-today/";s:8:"comments";s:68:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/28/al-goring-the-house-today/#comments";s:7:"pubdate";s:31:"Tue, 29 May 2007 05:15:48 +0000";s:2:"dc";a:1:{s:7:"creator";s:4:"Alan";}s:8:"category";s:9:"Blog Pile";s:4:"guid";s:59:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/28/al-goring-the-house-today/";s:11:"description";s:347:" posted 16 Jan ‘06, 3.02pm MST PST on flickr And now for something not related at all to blogging, twittering, or education technology at all. Way too long after Al’s Keynote jived movie, I finally got around to doing my small bit and swapping out some of our incandescent light bulbs for fluorescent ones. We’d already [...]";s:7:"content";a:1:{s:7:"encoded";s:2914:"
posted 16 Jan ‘06, 3.02pm MST PST on flickr
And now for something not related at all to blogging, twittering, or education technology at all.
Way too long after Al’s Keynote jived movie, I finally got around to doing my small bit and swapping out some of our incandescent light bulbs for fluorescent ones.
We’d already done our bedrooms/.offices, which each have ceiling fan/light combos (and we use 2 bulbs rather than three), but I’ve been eyeballing our other rooms… The kitchen has 6 R30 spots (1/2 were already fluorescent, forgot we bought them), 2 R20 spots over the counter. Then there is track lighting in the dining room and living room, each room with 2 sets of tracks each with 3 spotlights in the R20 size. Then there are these dressing room lights in our bathroom vanities (5 in one room, 6 in another).
Yikes, this is mounting up to a lot of bulbs. So I decided to do this in stages, taking care of the kitchen dining room now (and besides, i cleaned out our Home depot’s supplies of the R20s).
But now I am seeing more. We have sconce lights in the hallway that are halogen. There are some small lamps in the living room, on the end tables. There are some outdoor flood lights. Maybe I live in Times Square, with all this lighting??
So its a small step. With my shift to work from home last year, we already do a part of less impact by downsizing to one car; we’ve taken up composting and growing some of our own vegetables. It’s not nearly the off the grid effort my colleague Bryan Alexander is taking, but as a gleeful, pie in the sky optimist, I think the little efforts can add up.
And how appropriate, just flipped open this month’s Wired to the spread on Global Gas Gauge, that compares world wide cost of gasoline (and converting it to dollars per gallon for comparison to the US). I paid $3.15 recently, and have little complain compared to the $6+ prices in London, Paris, Berlin, Hong Kong. But wow, prices in Baghdad are at $1.19 (of course chances are you will get killed just driving to the pump), $0.17 in Venezuela (but dont be sporting any “W” bumper stickers); Mexico city is a sweet $2.34 (??), and heck Moscow is looking better than Scottsdale ($2.89 there, without the free vodka glasses with a full up).
flickr photo credit to MatthewBradley
";}s:3:"wfw";a:1:{s:10:"commentrss";s:64:"http://cogdogblog.com/2007/05/28/al-goring-the-house-today/feed/";}s:7:"summary";s:347:" posted 16 Jan ‘06, 3.02pm MST PST on flickr And now for something not related at all to blogging, twittering, or education technology at all. Way too long after Al’s Keynote jived movie, I finally got around to doing my small bit and swapping out some of our incandescent light bulbs for fluorescent ones. We’d already [...]";s:12:"atom_content";s:2914:"
posted 16 Jan ‘06, 3.02pm MST PST on flickr
And now for something not related at all to blogging, twittering, or education technology at all.
Way too long after Al’s Keynote jived movie, I finally got around to doing my small bit and swapping out some of our incandescent light bulbs for fluorescent ones.
We’d already done our bedrooms/.offices, which each have ceiling fan/light combos (and we use 2 bulbs rather than three), but I’ve been eyeballing our other rooms… The kitchen has 6 R30 spots (1/2 were already fluorescent, forgot we bought them), 2 R20 spots over the counter. Then there is track lighting in the dining room and living room, each room with 2 sets of tracks each with 3 spotlights in the R20 size. Then there are these dressing room lights in our bathroom vanities (5 in one room, 6 in another).
Yikes, this is mounting up to a lot of bulbs. So I decided to do this in stages, taking care of the kitchen dining room now (and besides, i cleaned out our Home depot’s supplies of the R20s).
But now I am seeing more. We have sconce lights in the hallway that are halogen. There are some small lamps in the living room, on the end tables. There are some outdoor flood lights. Maybe I live in Times Square, with all this lighting??
So its a small step. With my shift to work from home last year, we already do a part of less impact by downsizing to one car; we’ve taken up composting and growing some of our own vegetables. It’s not nearly the off the grid effort my colleague Bryan Alexander is taking, but as a gleeful, pie in the sky optimist, I think the little efforts can add up.
And how appropriate, just flipped open this month’s Wired to the spread on Global Gas Gauge, that compares world wide cost of gasoline (and converting it to dollars per gallon for comparison to the US). I paid $3.15 recently, and have little complain compared to the $6+ prices in London, Paris, Berlin, Hong Kong. But wow, prices in Baghdad are at $1.19 (of course chances are you will get killed just driving to the pump), $0.17 in Venezuela (but dont be sporting any “W” bumper stickers); Mexico city is a sweet $2.34 (??), and heck Moscow is looking better than Scottsdale ($2.89 there, without the free vodka glasses with a full up).
flickr photo credit to MatthewBradley
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flickr creative commons photo Raising the Flag by selyfriday
This has nothing to do with McDonalds, but I loved the flickr image so much, I’m making a metaphorical stretch.
No, this is a clarion call to Remember the Blog! As we get more distributed in where our e-attention goes, be it various social networks, virtual worlds, and more recently twitter, I’m wondering, as are others, about a decline in blogging.
So this is a second of two blog posts I am published that are somewhat propelled by Scott’s frustration with the twitter service, but also nicely flavored with the passion I remember Barbara Ganley evoking in her presentation at Faculty Academy:
I want to speak up for blogging. For ourselves. For our students. And I know that some of you don’t want to feel obligated to blog just because you have your students blog, and that some of you have moved down the road, shedding your blogging for newer clothes. Don’t abandon your practice just yet…
So that’s a long pre-amble, maybe even longer than the statement I was hoping to get to.
Like others mentioned here, and elsewhere, I have gotten a good vibe from the whiffs of the things like tiwtter and other high engaging “presence now” social network tools. But I never, ever, EVUH see it really knocking off my dedication to the process of my blog. Maybe my attention gets slightly diverted, or posts get spread out, but here is my case for being true to your blog.
Okay, I thought I had compelling reasons, but maybe not. So rather than thinking I can really convince anyone, I make my own statement of dedication to the process of blogging (not the presentation of it, once I referred to blog as both a noun and a verb), including the reflection and commentary on the worlds around me, near and far, of my own place in it, the importance of participating in other blogs via comments.
Take the time, as Barbara has suggested for the notion of “slow-blogging”- hammering out something crafted (not like this stream of consciousness) or worked over like hand made bread, ideas that you kneed (and need), that have had time to let rise a bit. Be provocative. or mysterious. Take a stand, even a I Refuse To Use Cat Ridden Twitter Stand.
As much as I have been excited about all kinds of technology over the last XX years, nothing truly comes close to the subtle power of being able to express ourselves, in the form, shape, tone, colors, that we choose in our own personal blog space.
So set aside twitter for a few nanoseconds of partial attention, and commit something meaningful to your blog, where it will always be, and where it can mean something to others.
Viva La Blog!
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flickr creative commons photo Raising the Flag by selyfriday
This has nothing to do with McDonalds, but I loved the flickr image so much, I’m making a metaphorical stretch.
No, this is a clarion call to Remember the Blog! As we get more distributed in where our e-attention goes, be it various social networks, virtual worlds, and more recently twitter, I’m wondering, as are others, about a decline in blogging.
So this is a second of two blog posts I am published that are somewhat propelled by Scott’s frustration with the twitter service, but also nicely flavored with the passion I remember Barbara Ganley evoking in her presentation at Faculty Academy:
I want to speak up for blogging. For ourselves. For our students. And I know that some of you don’t want to feel obligated to blog just because you have your students blog, and that some of you have moved down the road, shedding your blogging for newer clothes. Don’t abandon your practice just yet…
So that’s a long pre-amble, maybe even longer than the statement I was hoping to get to.
Like others mentioned here, and elsewhere, I have gotten a good vibe from the whiffs of the things like tiwtter and other high engaging “presence now” social network tools. But I never, ever, EVUH see it really knocking off my dedication to the process of my blog. Maybe my attention gets slightly diverted, or posts get spread out, but here is my case for being true to your blog.
Okay, I thought I had compelling reasons, but maybe not. So rather than thinking I can really convince anyone, I make my own statement of dedication to the process of blogging (not the presentation of it, once I referred to blog as both a noun and a verb), including the reflection and commentary on the worlds around me, near and far, of my own place in it, the importance of participating in other blogs via comments.
Take the time, as Barbara has suggested for the notion of “slow-blogging”- hammering out something crafted (not like this stream of consciousness) or worked over like hand made bread, ideas that you kneed (and need), that have had time to let rise a bit. Be provocative. or mysterious. Take a stand, even a I Refuse To Use Cat Ridden Twitter Stand.
As much as I have been excited about all kinds of technology over the last XX years, nothing truly comes close to the subtle power of being able to express ourselves, in the form, shape, tone, colors, that we choose in our own personal blog space.
So set aside twitter for a few nanoseconds of partial attention, and commit something meaningful to your blog, where it will always be, and where it can mean something to others.
Viva La Blog!
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