Vibrant Journey

Patience pays off. Downloaded Firefox 3 this afternoon with no trouble. Install went smoothly and all is well. The “awesome bar” worked well since my open tabs before the upgrade did not get restored after the installation.
Memory usage, at a quick glance, looks better than Firefox 2. Random and most non-scientific comparison between Firefox 3 [...]

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The BumpTop desktop resembles mine, just not sure that is a good thing. Tossing something across my desk doesn’t usually result in billiards style reactions. The mess gets worse or something breaks.
Enticing options are the many ways BumpTop allows me to easily sort my piles even while retaining some apparent history of its previous organized [...]

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Mark on the acrobat.com team left a comment on my previous post about a snag they had this morning. It seems service was available soon after I tried but I had to go on to other things. I have had a chance to play around a little tonight though.
I still like the Buzzword interface as [...]

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I just recently learned of Jonathan Corum’s Personal Injury Warning System. It is a fun trip through his historic record of personal injuries and the warning signs that might have prevented each incident. Despite the extensive injuries, Jonathan retains a highly detailed memory. Here is my first attempt at a PIWS sign.
1973 Texas
Hide-and-seek does not [...]

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A new “beta” has been hatched. Acrobat.com is Adobe’s new collaborative platform which integrates Buzzword for collaborative authorship, ConnectNow for online meetings and presentations, PDF creation, Acrobat.com offline AIR application and apparently more. I wrote about my pleasant experience with Buzzword and noted the parent company’s acquisition by Adobe, so it is interesting now to [...]

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Just ran across an archived EduCause Live! presentation on Outsourcing E-Mail and Other Commodity Services (June 2007). It is a good discussion on the reasonings and concerns around Northwestern University partnering with Google for email and other services. Some of it is dated, so the Google offerings have expanded but here are a few factoids [...]

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Congratulations to Gabriel on second prize in the Seagate Billionth Drive 1K Competition run by boingboing Gadgets.
The challenge…”send us the most ingenious work of art, writing, code or whatever takes your fancy that fits into a kilobyte or less.”
There were numerous imaginative entries with Tiny Mona being one of the most artistic. Yes, I am [...]

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(Notes from SunGardHE Summit on Tuesday, April 15)
Wichita State University shares information gathered over two myWSU usability tests. Results were similar to many of our findings.
It was interesting that they noted a similar problem with students not really recognizing the existence of tabs in the Luminis layout. The difference being that WSU noted this issue [...]

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(Notes from SunGardHE Summit on Wednesday, April 16)
Neil Howe spoke on recruiting the Millenial generation. Millennials are the generation born since 1982 with a childhood era including culture wars and the 1990s boom. What will their coming of age look like?
I thought I was a late boomer but his facts say Boomers are 1943-1960. Gen [...]

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Jason is posting on the sessions he is attending.

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