So we decided to make hard pear cider (perry, or poiré) this year. There are some good recipes on the web, but very little documentation on the complete process. Hopefully this log of our process will fill in the gaps for you. Before we begin, here are some of the essentials. Type of fruit: Ripe, […]

Last Friday, two very good friends of mine got married (to each other, no less). The ceremony was conducted on top of Rocky Butte by another friend Luke, who had gotten his reverend’s license just for the occasion. It turned out to be an extraordinary wonderfully day for the event. If they had done it […]

Just a quick set of shots from the Mexico trip. I will also be sure to post more images and video during the next few days. However, there were so many things to see and do, that they won’t even begin to scratch the surface of our 10 days in PV. Just thinking about flora […]

The Accessible Video Interface Notes and resources for presentation at the 2009 eLearning  in Portland, OR. The age of video on the Web is here! Both content creators and users have high expectations and you may become caught in the middle. Learn how to create an accessible media interface that will allow your institution to […]

On Friday, the four of us (Porch, Bomber, Sam and I) met up at 5am and drove to the other side of Mt. Hood.  I had rented the Flag Point fire tower for 3 days. Reservations for this and other cool locations can be made on Recreation.gov. On the way we stopped in Hood River […]

The HighEdWeb 2008 conference: “Infinite Solutions” is from October 5-8 in Springfield Missouri. This year, I will be wearing several hats: Presenter [UAD5] This will be the second year that I am presenting at HighEdWeb and the presentation will be similar to the previous one. However, there will also be a lot of new information […]

A few bad apples shouldn’t be able to ruin it for everyone. However, on the internet, that is usually what happens… You set up a blog or mail form and everything goes great for a while. Then come the spammers. They want your attention and will do what ever it takes to get through. Some […]

After presenting in 2007, I was asked to be on the conference committee for the 2008 HighEdWeb. This next conference will be in Springfield Missouri, and I have been selected as multimedia representative (though I am not entirely sure what that means yet). We have already had several meetings (via the telephone) and many items […]

“HighEdWeb is an organization of Web professionals working at institutions of higher education. We design, develop, manage and map the futures of higher education Web sites.” Each year, the organization puts on a conference where web professionals from colleges around the country gather to learn, discuss and network. I had the opportunity to attend in […]

We just spent the last two weeks down in the southwest. I wrote some trail logs of our adventures, but it may take some time to post those on the web. For now, I just wanted to get a quick synopsis and some photos up. I flew down to meet Sam in Reno, NV. After […]