A Picture Share!

Halloween, the one time of the year when I release my alter ego.... El Pollo Diablo!

Catching Up

That's what I'm doing, catching up. Catching up in email, in tasks, in lots of things. Maybe, one day, I'll catch up on blog posting. Briefly here's my life lately:

Rush to finish next phase of tenure process, go to conference, gear up for student network security trainings, take vacation (yahoo!), catch up on all the work that piled up during vacation, continue student training, finish last phase of tenure process,

and then maybe I'll be able to post more. In November, I estimate. Thanks for sticking around, though!

What's Good? What's Bad? You tell me.

I'm currently playing around with a new plugin for Firefox that's called Outfoxed. It allows you to see reports on web pages, kind of like a Consumer Reports for the web I guess. If you are using this plugin, or want to try it. Let me know, because I really would like to get my own circle of trusted people instead of relying on the "default" group.

If you want to join, give me a buzz, or drop a comment to this post and I'll send you an invite.

More Later

Here it is, the "more later" post. Too bad I've already forgotten most of what I wanted to say....

Anyway, the previous two posts were made during the Nebraska Library Association/Nebraska Educational Media Association's annual conference. The first was during a panel discussion on diversity. The speaker stressed that diversity is not about race, but on the culture & background of people. "View, not hue" is what you should think about when thinking about "diversity issues". I just thought it was a great summary statement. Three words and the point is made.

The second was just a rave about a session on gaming by Dr. Steinkuehler. She studies MMOG's in relationship to learning and cognition. A fabulous speaker and as a gamer, I actually felt validated in my gaming hobby as she spoke of all the skills that are being used without people thinking about them. For example, in a MMOG where people are coming up with mathematical models and success probabilities on certain types of attacks with lots of variables without thinking "It's math", but "I'm beating the game." If you are at a conference where she is talking, go to her session. Fabulous speaker and great material!